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
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Custom marble base 2
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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
Lawence Your system which is already great will take a huge step up with the Sashas, esp with Ref5se,Ref 150 and Wadia. Congrats and get your sleep now.
Hi Lawence, I've got the REF5SE and the REF150 coming into my system soon for an in home audition with my WP8's. The dealer is burning them in now. I just finished auditioning a Nagra system, consisting of the PL-L linestage and the MSA amplifier, which I really, really liked. The Audio Research gear is going to have to perform at an extraordinary level to surpass what I heard with the Nagra gear. In the end, of course, I'll purchase whichever amp and preamp my ears tell me to. As far as differences between the WP7 and WP8, I think placement and sound treatments have more to do with their sound differences than any built in differences. My good friend Lenny's WP7's sound fantastic in his properly treated room.
System edited: Changed the listening position and gave the WP8 another try, it works ! I was totally wrong, the 8 are definitely better than 7 ! the words of better is consevative.
The 8 are more musical speaker yet retain the transparency of Wilson's signature sounding, the high is much much extended but not harsh as 7 (this were I thought not as good as 7 before), more information in the higher mid to high region hence much transparency in the mid range, better low levels retrieval, micro dynamics are much improved,mid to high listening levels is more definition and impact (can play louder without harsh), the bass is going deeper and more texture, never booming, one who expereince over bass (like me) is a matter of speaker placement only.
Some said the change of 8 is just ROHS matters, but as a real user point of view and all the changes has made from Wilson, like the tweeter, the X over, the cabinet's material, all in all, the 7 & 8 are totally different.
Pairing the 7 or 8 with latest ARC Reference gears is truely the excellent heavens made system :)
Hi, noticed that you listen w/o grills. Mine are on. I've tried them both ways, but honestly can't really hear a difference. Has that been your experience?
I know it's more fashionable to employ Wilson's in large spaces than small, but I gotta say that the Watt Puppy's certainly can sing well in small rooms. In fact, I'm unafraid to admit that my most memorable experiences with Wilson products have all taken place in smaller, more intimate settings. So good on ya - I'm sure the sound is fantastic!
