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<!-- #thumb --> <p>I mentioned yesterday the separation attributes I am hearing now on the new music system, of which the Infinity IRS is the center piece. *Several of you asked me if anything else had changed in the system that might account for this – so I’ll describe the entire chain again – because three things have changed all at once: the speakers, the room and the interconnects.</p>
<p>I will say that one of the good/bad parts of installing a speaker system that magnifies every little nuance as well as wart in the electronic chain is that if something’s not right you hear it immediately. *So one of my fears was “how would our equipment stack up under the scrutiny of this magnifying process?” *Turns out it’s even better than I thought – but let’s face it – it could have gone the other way just as easily. *Truly it was a crap shoot and one I would have openly shared with my readers.</p>
<p>In the system now are 4 P10 Power Plants as the foundation for the power. *1 P10 is running the rack of source equipment, another is powering the PerfectWave Power Amplifier (which is not overkill because it can put out close to a couple of thousand watts if needed), and then one P10 on each of the woofer towers – as these are each powered by a 1500 watt servo bass amp. *Each P10 is on its own dedicated AC line.</p>
<p>The source rack has a PerfectWave Transport and DAC sitting on a PowerBase, a Clear Audio Master Solution turntable and arm, a NuWave Phono Converter feeding the output of the turntable into the PWD and a separate shelf in the rack for when we have new designs to test. *Both the transport and the NPC are connected to the DAC through HDMI cables using I<sup>2</sup>S. *The entire rack output is fed through a single pair of 15 meter Audioquest balanced cables that use their DBS system.</p>
<p>That’s really about it and the only real changes between this system and the last, aside from the speakers and the room, is the Audioquest cables. *Previously I had a pair of our own Statement XLR balanced interconnects and those were replaced with the new AQ’s. *I just did a comparison between the original PS Statement interconnects laying on the floor, vs. the new AQ DBS based cables running through the walls and the differences were quite startling. *The AQ’s are clear, open and startling in their clarity – without even a hint of hardness. *I am not sure what magic is going on here, but clearly these cables rock.</p>
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<p>I will say that one of the good/bad parts of installing a speaker system that magnifies every little nuance as well as wart in the electronic chain is that if something’s not right you hear it immediately. *So one of my fears was “how would our equipment stack up under the scrutiny of this magnifying process?” *Turns out it’s even better than I thought – but let’s face it – it could have gone the other way just as easily. *Truly it was a crap shoot and one I would have openly shared with my readers.</p>
<p>In the system now are 4 P10 Power Plants as the foundation for the power. *1 P10 is running the rack of source equipment, another is powering the PerfectWave Power Amplifier (which is not overkill because it can put out close to a couple of thousand watts if needed), and then one P10 on each of the woofer towers – as these are each powered by a 1500 watt servo bass amp. *Each P10 is on its own dedicated AC line.</p>
<p>The source rack has a PerfectWave Transport and DAC sitting on a PowerBase, a Clear Audio Master Solution turntable and arm, a NuWave Phono Converter feeding the output of the turntable into the PWD and a separate shelf in the rack for when we have new designs to test. *Both the transport and the NPC are connected to the DAC through HDMI cables using I<sup>2</sup>S. *The entire rack output is fed through a single pair of 15 meter Audioquest balanced cables that use their DBS system.</p>
<p>That’s really about it and the only real changes between this system and the last, aside from the speakers and the room, is the Audioquest cables. *Previously I had a pair of our own Statement XLR balanced interconnects and those were replaced with the new AQ’s. *I just did a comparison between the original PS Statement interconnects laying on the floor, vs. the new AQ DBS based cables running through the walls and the differences were quite startling. *The AQ’s are clear, open and startling in their clarity – without even a hint of hardness. *I am not sure what magic is going on here, but clearly these cables rock.</p>
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