Speaking of subwoofers, with all of this free time around the house, today I spent the afternoon playing around and listening to the smaller of my two re-mastering systems:
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This system is in one of my music/mastering/listening rooms. Although this is the smaller of my two mastering systems it has some really unique and special one of a kind and ultra rare equipment, including a pair of the massive Whise Profunder 624 subwoofers, and this particular pair came out of George Lucas’ home screening room:
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But the Whise subs are not exactly the headliners in this system, that title goes to my SADiE 5 DSD8 Super Audio CD (SACD) authoring Digital Audio Workstation (DAW):
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The SADiE 5 DSD8 and specially modified equipment send Raw-DSD to the original Meitner DSD DAC and gets input Raw-DSD from the original Meitner DSD ADC converters.Many of the original single-layer SACD’s were recorded on this very equipment.
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For the purpose of an honest comparison of this system’s playback against my other systems on this thread, I kept the signal path short and straight forward and eliminated all the inserts/send-return to the mastering equipment.
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The signal path is CD output in this recording to maintain the same source as on the previous videos: digital output into a Krell Audio + Video Standard processor in preamp mode feeding a pair of Avalon Design X-2 Class A monoblocks crossovers with external power supplies, to a reference mastering grade Penny+Giles 8-channel level adjuster driving the otherly massive and ultra mega rare MIDAS “The Brick” 1,000 Watts 4-Chanel power amplifier, the massive gold block in the middle of the bottom shelve, which powers both a pair of upgraded EAW MS-63 mastering monitors and the afore mentioned monstrous and ultra rare Whise Profunder 624 subwoofers:
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Later I will video some playback of Raw-DSD through this system which is entirely on another realm, but not fair for the purpose of the comparison of the reference track across my multiple systems.