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by lawence_carpio on Ever Evolving

Description

This is a very high resolution system that I ever had, Hyper resolution, transparency, speed, dynamic impact is all there :)

My favorites artist :

Patricia Barber

Larry Calton

Bob James

Dave Grusin

Sypro Gyra

Fourplay

David Benoit

Yellow Jackets

Mary Black

Carol Kidds

Diana Krall

Mary Black

Harry James

All kind of Blues, fusion / Modern Jazz & Big Band.

No classical music at all :)
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Components Toggle details

    • JC Verdier LaNovelle-Super Tweak
    Super Tweak! original oil bath bearing house, 16kg platter, 3 point large spring loaded suspension,solid wood plinth, can hold two arms, additional custom made marble base with 5mm polished "stainless steel" plate placed on top and custom made heavy duty solid aluminum spikes with height adjustment, lowest resonance & rumble free ever, weight total of 200 lbs of the whole turntable system, combined soft & hard type turntable sounding, just WOW !!
    • Triplanar Series 7 Ultimate 2
    My dream tonearm with lots of flexibility adjustment, just love it.
    • Scheu Analog Das Laufwerk motor unit
    Replaced with this Germany made motor unit, top of the line, much precise & accurate speed for the JC, a significant upgrade ! best with it own plastic belt to pull the 16kg platter. Specification : Electronically regulated DC motor Microcontroller with digital 4-Q PI-controller Overload protection by integrated speed-dependent current-limitation Fine-speed adjustment +-3% for 33 und 45 rpm.
    • Pure Sound Gun Metal mat
    Weight 1.8kg, the ultimate tweak for the JC Verdier to tam ringing of platter, bring it to a higher sound improvement, unfortunately has discontinued due to stop production of such material.
    • LYS Electronique GYRASCOPE & record Clamp
    Independent Electronical Stroboscope, ultra precise and accurate for measuring speed, use as record clamp as well. Made in France. http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=thehighendmusic2;id=97;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elys%2Delectronique%2Ecom%2F
    • PASS Labs XONO 2 chassis phono amp
    Legendary phono amp designed by Wayne Colburn, single ended pure Class A design, with "QUAD" of ultra low noise matched JFETS from the input stage, followed by MOS Fets for output devices, last version with same size power supply unit, lots of adjustment,dead silent with 76db of gain, without the use of step up transformer, very transparent yet neutral sound, love it a lot, solved the hum issue by seperately both units (not stack).
    • PlayBack Designs MPS3 CD player
    This is the final CD player that made me stop upgrading, DSD compatible and up sampling every cd to all the way DSD x 2 !beat my previous dCS 4 stacks (Verdi / Verona / Purcell / Elgar plus), very close to Vinyl playback.
    • Audio Research Reference 5SE
    High resolution with sweeeeeeeet sound, a very lifelike pre amp I ever owned.
    • Audio Research Reference 150
    Everything is there,effortless driving capability, made the Sasha the best sounding ever !!
    • Wilson Audio Sasha
    My 7th Wilson Audio speaker !! my sound preference always goes to Wilson speaker.
    • Finite Elements CERABASE Classic
    Ceramic ball design, enhance overall focus and higher density of sound stage, used underneth my Reference 5SE.
    • DH Labs Q10 Signature Double Run
    Unbelieveable speaker cables that beat my previous 3K Transparent speaker cables, more open, fast, and deeper bass.
    • Custom marble base 120 lbs
    A closer look
    • Custom marble base 2
    2
    • Nordost RedDawn XLR interconnect cable
    XLR 2.0M connected between Pre & Power
    • Heavens Gate Blue power cable
    Power cable for CD9, mid range to die for !
    • Belden 83803 professional power cable
    Used in my pre amp and power amp, very dynamic yet transparent power cable, beat down many expensive cable.
    • Counterpoint Elliot Audio Design Engineering Magnum Opus One
    The best ever
    • Halcro Amplifiers DM38
    The most transparent and neutral amp I ever used!

Comments 53

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Owner
Changed quite a lot of gears since 2015, will post update shortly :-)

lawence_carpio

Seems all your components match each other perfectly. Congrads on a great system, one special looking turntable, thanks for posting and Happy Listening

needfreestuff

That's the best looking Platine Verdier I have ever seen! It should give you much pleasure for a long time. Please post more photos when you can.

salectric

Lawrence, did you have the arm set-up by analog tech or did you do it yourself ?
What do you have it tracking at ?
thx

lucajames

Owner
A lot of upgrade this year, the Reference 150 replaced by a pair of Audio Research Reference 210, cartidge upgraded to Lyra Titan i, phono amp replaced by Audio Rsearch Reference Phono, and moved house with minor acoustic treatment make the whole experience much differnet than before, will post more phots later.

lawence_carpio

Man oh man is that turntable beautiful. Congratulations on a job perfectly done.

albertporter

Owner
System edited: Finally there for my Vinyl system, thinking of upgrading cartridge.........

lawence_carpio

Owner
System edited: Uploaded more details of my new Vinyl player, just love it.

lawence_carpio

Owner
System edited: My vinyl player is almosr done, will post more pictures afterward.

lawence_carpio

Owner
Don't wanna spend anymore on Digital playback, can't resist to enjoy the analog sound again, started to build around a analog player, will post update later.

lawence_carpio

Owner
Hi Lapierre, after almost hit 200 hours of burn-in of the CD9, I sold the PD finally...

lawence_carpio

Congrats on the new acquisition.

You keeping the PD component?

lapierre

Owner
The Reference CD9 is here, using a external DVD player that connected a coaxial digital output to the R9's digital in,breaking in is long road........

lawence_carpio

Owner
I use it as a CD player only, I knew it is kind of wasted without using it's DSD playback, however I was impressed already by its upsamplings all CD to DSD sounding.

I'm greedy and have ordered the CD9, should be here in 2 weeks times, will then have a head to head comparison :)

lawence_carpio

How is it better than the Playback Design unit you have? Are you utilizing the DSD upsample and DSD files via computer and usb on the PD? Or do you want the synergy of an all Audio Research rig?

mribob

Owner
Have auditioned the new Audio Research Reference CD9 in the local
agent, very very tempted...........

lawence_carpio

Owner
Hi Lapierre,

It is an local made product.

lawence_carpio

Nice addition Lawence.

What acoustic treatment product are you using?

lapierre

Owner
Documentroom,

Thanks, envy your listening room :(

lawence_carpio

Owner
System edited: New added acoustic treatment at the back wall, huge improvement !

lawence_carpio

Wow. I've watched your room go through all the changes. It looks so cool now. All the top arc gear and the wall paper is warm and adds character. Really really cool room. You have put a lot of energy making it all happen. Congratulations. Top notch.

documentroom

Owner
The playback MPS3 truly a amazing piece of equipment, very high resolution, hyper details yet very musical, althought it had just played 200 hrs, I believe it will keep improving!

lawence_carpio

Owner

Ordered a new Playback Designs MPS-3 cd player, will be here in 3 weeks later :)

lawence_carpio

Congrats Lawrence.

Spin the Yellowjackets.

lapierre

I love that you have an all USA system. I almost do. All but the Vincent amp. Thought about that alot before buying it but the Vincent fit the budget etc the best.

ps Huge Patricia Barber fan too. Have all her stuff on SACD, and may sell much of it now that I have the Olive. Have Cafe Blue on MFSL SACD too, crazy good.

scott_weinberg

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