soundog III
Tennalaga Class
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2011
- Location
- New York
I feel I've been cluttering up the Lunar System topic with occasional late night Bubble Dourbon triggered ramblings so I'll use this post to provide updates on certain tweaks I'll be attempting. Might prove to be of interest and perhaps even utility to some readers so why not? Certainly beats hijacking the LS thread.
Follows an overview of some of the equipment I'll be experimenting with. This post references the in house system which is just for CD's. It includes a Rega amp & pre-amp with Chord Company interconnects. These are 15, maybe 20 years young. This pairing provides more than enough power to get the speakers pulsating. The CD player is a bog standard Denon recently purchased for $500 to replace the Rega CD player which went to hi-fi heaven, or perhaps purgatory, earlier this year after serving admirably alongside its brethen. Speakers are Pro - Ac tablet 2000 signature, same early 00's vintage as the Rega gear, set up on the indispensable speaker stands which are loaded with audiophile grade sand in the legs to lend solidity. Which it most certainly does. The Pro Ac 2000's are very impressive speakers, delivering pinpoint imaging and commendable range. Details on the speakers performance will be analysed post system tweaks. Speaker wire, I hesitate to call it cable is Mapleshade Golden Helix V2 which rule. Truly, they do. Lightning fast, neutral to perhaps just a bit open & bright, clean, sparkling, transparent, capable of delivering low end information at near Stygian depths as required / compelled to by the signal channelled. A PS audio line conditioner provides cleaned up electric to the Mapleshade power strip. The PS is connected to a standard power strip which reaches the nearest wall outlet in my 90 year old house. The electrician may well be receiving a call to tidy up some of the in - wall wiring, as the house is an amalgam of minimally 7 different construction expansions effected over the years since it was a Roaring Twenties summer cabin for two seasonally in attendance spinsters. There's some pretty scary wiring in the basement, that is for certain. I'd like to think that racking the system in the fireplace produces a somewhat hotter sound which is pretty cool. Additionally this placement helps keeps the interconnects out of harms way, so its more than just a placebo effect.
The first tweak will be applying TC graphene to the bare ends of the speaker wire, both at the amp & the Pro-Acs. Then I'll treat the pins of the RCA cables, again both ends. When some fo.Q tape arrives I'll wrap the plugs, shields, IEC connectors, etc... And its a definite that I'll buy another MC5 line conditioner to fine tune the current on the line the PS is plugged into. I'm confident that these actions will result in improved performance.
Follows a few pics to give a sense of the project.
Follows an overview of some of the equipment I'll be experimenting with. This post references the in house system which is just for CD's. It includes a Rega amp & pre-amp with Chord Company interconnects. These are 15, maybe 20 years young. This pairing provides more than enough power to get the speakers pulsating. The CD player is a bog standard Denon recently purchased for $500 to replace the Rega CD player which went to hi-fi heaven, or perhaps purgatory, earlier this year after serving admirably alongside its brethen. Speakers are Pro - Ac tablet 2000 signature, same early 00's vintage as the Rega gear, set up on the indispensable speaker stands which are loaded with audiophile grade sand in the legs to lend solidity. Which it most certainly does. The Pro Ac 2000's are very impressive speakers, delivering pinpoint imaging and commendable range. Details on the speakers performance will be analysed post system tweaks. Speaker wire, I hesitate to call it cable is Mapleshade Golden Helix V2 which rule. Truly, they do. Lightning fast, neutral to perhaps just a bit open & bright, clean, sparkling, transparent, capable of delivering low end information at near Stygian depths as required / compelled to by the signal channelled. A PS audio line conditioner provides cleaned up electric to the Mapleshade power strip. The PS is connected to a standard power strip which reaches the nearest wall outlet in my 90 year old house. The electrician may well be receiving a call to tidy up some of the in - wall wiring, as the house is an amalgam of minimally 7 different construction expansions effected over the years since it was a Roaring Twenties summer cabin for two seasonally in attendance spinsters. There's some pretty scary wiring in the basement, that is for certain. I'd like to think that racking the system in the fireplace produces a somewhat hotter sound which is pretty cool. Additionally this placement helps keeps the interconnects out of harms way, so its more than just a placebo effect.
The first tweak will be applying TC graphene to the bare ends of the speaker wire, both at the amp & the Pro-Acs. Then I'll treat the pins of the RCA cables, again both ends. When some fo.Q tape arrives I'll wrap the plugs, shields, IEC connectors, etc... And its a definite that I'll buy another MC5 line conditioner to fine tune the current on the line the PS is plugged into. I'm confident that these actions will result in improved performance.
Follows a few pics to give a sense of the project.
