Audio Horizons TP 2.0 Preamplifier

Just to add my 2 cents. I re-arranged my system yesterday with thoughts of why am I bothering to do this now? Is it worth the hassle? Can I set the speakers back on the same markers with the right toe in and angle? Even if it sounds good, will my wife like the new setup?

Well, I must tell you that glorious music abound as a result of all this painstaking, rearranging, backbracking(furniture)sweat.

Soundstage depth and height are now floor to ceiling (literally) and the sweatspot is wider and taller than I thought it would be.

Night and day is the difference. I am totally shocked at the dramatic change.

As for the key reasons why? Well, it has to do with the new ICs I installed, and most of the credit has to go to the Audio Horizons preamp. But above all, the Room plays a key part in freeing up my speakers to do their special disappearing act.

La45 Congradulations on taking the chance, doing the work and enjoying the result. Approximately what did you go from and what did you go to in terms of speaker distances and toe in, etc? What kind of speakers are you using?

Hi Gammajo,

The speaker was on the short wall and now it sits on the long wall, 6.5 feet apart and 3.75 feet from the back wall.

The key is the side walls are now 5 feet from each speaker and my listening chair sits in a 18 ft cavity which is 5.8 feet in width. By cavity I mean a walk thru from the basement stairs to the listening room. I sit right at the entrance between both spaces.

If you do the math you can see that by moving my listening chair I expanded the room by incorporating the 18 feet additional space with additional acoustical treatment courtesy of the drop ceiling in that space.

The speaker is by Argent Audio called the "Gabrielle". It was designed by Ric Cummings, the original inventor of the Room Lens.

Worth the time and effort indeed.

Luis,
I'm glad to see that you got your room maximized to make your system sound its best. I still am curious what that $30.00 cd player is that you have that sounds so good.

Sherod my friend. Glad to hear from you.

I am afraid to mention it. I will never be taken seriously by anyone here using this $30 player with a Audio Horizons preamp, a 24k speaker, Gabrielle Gold Revelations and a 8 watt SET amplifier.

I hope to have a friend or two hear the system first and report what they experience in the hope that they will be taken more seriosly. As for me, I am not very good convincing people that a $30 player kicked my TRL Marantz SA-14 player into retirement. Or that it also kicked the 26k Esoteric CD-DAC combo. Who would believe me?