Built for the love of music...

Using larger versions of the steel brackets I found useful for getting all the power cords up and off the floor, I also installed this oak shelf to free up space for another chair...

The large bookshelves are the first bits of the collection and contain many discs that I play quite often:

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Wow!

Congrats on the upgrades.

Btw, I see the new Shunyata Signal Grounding box in one of your pics :-)

Hopefully, you and others can spill the beans on it soon.
 
The new Esoteric C-02X preamp and Grandioso P1 and D1 stack with Cybershaft master clock and Shunyata TRITON v3 and TYPHON QR and a couple of system speaker view pics...

I'm expecting more damping plates today to finalize the tweaks.

(Photography skills are lacking so apologies for that,....my eagerness to share great music however is not!)

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That is a serious cable management job! Congratulations on all the upgrades!
Very curious to know what kind of music you listen to.

Regards.



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Beautiful system and upgrades. I admire your inspiration and determination to make your system the best you believe it can be! Truly stunning.
 
Nikhil said:
That is a serious cable management job! Congratulations on all the upgrades!
Very curious to know what kind of music you listen to.

Regards.



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Thank you very much! When I got the large power cords off the wall I expected that it would ease the overall organizational aspects and would have been
satisfied only with that. Much to my surprise moving from the old cable elevators (telephone insulator style I've been using since 2004-06) to the acrylic
risers and getting the power cords onto steel brackets on the walls (isolated using sorbethane pods, nylon sinks versus plastic, etc..) there was an additional
clarity in the overall system playback to was readily apparent so a bonus for doing all that work if you will. It's also a lot more aesthetically pleasing.

Types of music.....in a word "MANY". I have a fairly extensive collection (the 3 shelves in the room constitute about 20% of the total) and my music tastes
run for pipe organ, violin, cello, string ensembles, other small classical, large symphonic works, key opera composers (Wagner, Verdi, other big names),
Asian (Dadawa, He Xun Tian and others), Japanese Taiko drumming and Chinese drumming (Ondekoza, Yim Hok-Man and others), tons of jazz of all types
including Cuban, Afro-Cuban, West African Jazz (Mali, etc.), Middle East Jazz (e.g. Anouar Brahem), Polish & Italian Jazz performers, Swing/Big Band, Fusion Jazz,
lots of Blues etc..., I also have lots of fun with chasing Japanese jazz recordings since discovering labels like Three Blind Mice, LIM, FIM Venus Records and others
and the XRCD family of formats as a whole from Japan in the early 2000s. World music and world percussion, female and male vocalists (jazz and many others),
guitar, trumpet, sax, percussion, double bass, electric bass and other single instrument-focus recordings. Then we "Rock Out",...Classical Rock, Hard Rock,
some Heavy Metal acts, PROG-ROCK, "Prairie Rock" from Canada and the US, etc.... The only things I don't have much of is Country & Western and (C)RAP :-)

I do also have a distinct liking and alot of New Age, Techno, Electronica....

So in short, many different genres depending upon mood, etc...a normal day here can see Shostakovich, Mahler and Pipe Organ works spinning
then later Phutureprimitive, FSOL, BT, Shpongle and others, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, NDR German Big Band, etc....Patricia Barber,
Jacintha, and wind up with Tool, Rammstein, Pink Floyd, Rush, SAGA, or pretty much whatever strikes my mood and anything in between is fair game too.

So many discs....so little time :-) , music-phile, not typical audiophile.

Basically, just love great music of all types and all the craziness and money in the living room is in pursuit of getting all of that to sound as realistic and emotionally involving as I can!
 
SCAudiophile said:
Thank you very much! When I got the large power cords off the wall I expected that it would ease the overall organizational aspects and would have been
satisfied only with that. Much to my surprise moving from the old cable elevators (telephone insulator style I've been using since 2004-06) to the acrylic
risers and getting the power cords onto steel brackets on the walls (isolated using sorbethane pods, nylon sinks versus plastic, etc..) there was an additional
clarity in the overall system playback to was readily apparent so a bonus for doing all that work if you will. It's also a lot more aesthetically pleasing.

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So in short, many different genres depending upon mood, etc...a normal day here can see Shostakovich, Mahler and Pipe Organ works spinning
then later Phutureprimitive, FSOL, BT, Shpongle and others, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, NDR German Big Band, etc....Patricia Barber,
Jacintha, and wind up with Tool, Rammstein, Pink Floyd, Rush, SAGA, or pretty much whatever strikes my mood and anything in between is fair game too.
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Fantastic! That is a massive range of genres!
I find that some types of genres place the most demands on a setup.

IMO the "big" classical music (Wagner and Shostakovic) are the most challenging.
But getting rock to sound great is something I've had issues with in my setups.

Thanks for taking the time to reply with so much info. Much appreciated.





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Mark,

congrats on a formidable system! love to hear it someday.

the pics are great and it's clear nothing has been left to chance. which i really respect.

cheers,

Mike
 
Mike Lavigne said:
Mark,

congrats on a formidable system! love to hear it someday.

the pics are great and it's clear nothing has been left to chance. which i really respect.

cheers,

Mike
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Mike, thank you for the great comments and praise. Should you ever find yourself near Greenville SC you are always welcome for a listen!

My "bucket list" also includes a trip to a certain room you know well :-)

Enjoy your latest upgrades,...having heard Wadax Reference DAC (twice) and Server (once) in good sounding show environments, I can only imagine how they are portraying
music in that wonderful system and room of yours!
 
My order of additional HRS large damping plates came in last Thursday so all the gear now has them once again; adding the 2 extra boxes for the
Grandioso stack had me caught short on rack levels and plates, both of which have now been remedied...
 
Mikado463 said:
Audio...... who cares !! LOL !!

Love the pic of the mighty 'J' on the left and Buffalo Central Terminal on the right , I literally grew up in that place !
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Glad you like them; there are a couple more photos in the adjoining hallway and a few painting repros of Union Pacific Big Boys, Challengers
and a UP Gas Turbine loco upstairs plus a repro painting of a line of NY Central Hudsons getting fuel and water all lined up in the yard. I also
have one of a Lima Allegheny marauding out of a West Virginia tunnel under full steam pulling a long coal load.

Not only did he have a big band and raise me with a love for the "good stuff" (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and all the other great Big Bands),
my Father also worked for American Locomotive in our home town for many years all the way up to its closure as an design engineer and an
industrial photographer (he also worked on a unique coal-fired gas turbine project that was proven out), so growing up with a love of trains
and great music went hand in hand.

Those prints are some of the few of his work he was able to save. ALCO executives mandated barrel-burnings of engine plans, negatives, slides and prints in the railyard
at plant closing, those and the ones in the hallway are all he could get out the day before. What a tragedy and a huge loss of history (and F&^%$ the Oil Lobbyists).
 
SCAudiophile said:
Glad you like them; there are a couple more photos in the adjoining hallway and a few painting repros of Union Pacific Big Boys, Challengers
and a UP Gas Turbine loco upstairs plus a repro painting of a line of NY Central Hudsons getting fuel and water all lined up in the yard. I also
have one of a Lima Allegheny marauding out of a West Virginia tunnel under full steam pulling a long coal load.

Not only did he have a big band and raise me with a love for the "good stuff" (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and all the other great Big Bands),
my Father also worked for American Locomotive in our home town for many years all the way up to its closure as an design engineer and an
industrial photographer (he also worked on a unique coal-fired gas turbine project that was proven out), so growing up with a love of trains
and great music went hand in hand.

Those prints are some of the few of his work he was able to save. ALCO executives mandated barrel-burnings of engine plans, negatives, slides and prints in the railyard
at plant closing, those and the ones in the hallway are all he could get out the day before. What a tragedy and a huge loss of history (and F&^%$ the Oil Lobbyists).
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My career in railroading didn't have any correlation with Alco steam, rather their diesel siblings. While I despised them at first(my Penn Central years) at the end of my career (GVT rail system) I finally found respect. Thanks to having a CMO that was the best ALCO man in the world, Don Colangelo. At the time of my retirement we operating the largest all Alco rooster in the world, 50 locomotives.
 
Nikhil said:
Fantastic! That is a massive range of genres!
I find that some types of genres place the most demands on a setup.

IMO the "big" classical music (Wagner and Shostakovic) are the most challenging.
But getting rock to sound great is something I've had issues with in my setups.

Thanks for taking the time to reply with so much info. Much appreciated.





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Wagner, Shostakovich, Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven, the list of favorites that fit that description of most challenging goes on and on!

You can play them on many systems however, to hear the intricacies and be able to discern individual players and passages while still getting the grandeur
of the full ensemble on full tilt and moments earlier or later being able to resolve the softest most delicate passages, takes a certain type of system to render it all musically
and realistically. I've loved these composers and works since I was a teenager, played some of them during the portion of my early life when
when I was fortunate enough to be able to do so surrounded by some great talent. I find that as the system has evolved and improved so has
my ability to more fully and deeply understand all the layers of these amazing works to even higher levels.
 
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