The BEST system you've ever built !!!!

Eric:

How is your system doing now? I would like to know how it sounds, and especially how your VMPS speakers do in comparison with the Apogee Divas that you owned before.

Regards

GD

Its was in the late 60s- Klipschons in the corner, TWO pairs of Bose 2201 speakers configured to be 1/4 spheres along the wall between the K horns, (Bose had their own amps) K-horns driven by Marantz 9s, 7C preamp, 10B tuner, a Crown 842 tape deck, Magenecord tape deck, Thorens 124 w/SME arm and Ortophon MC and a Thorens 224 w/Thorens arm and Ortophon cart. Most important was a big rack of 10" original tapes of recording sessions from classical venues all around the country (an engineer's private stock.)

This is my biginers system...more to come.

CD Transport: Mark Levinson 37
D/A Converter: Mark Levinson 360S
D/D Converter: DCS ' Purcell '
Line Preamp: Mark Levinson 380S
Power Amps : Mark Levinson 336,331,334,434
Speakers : B&W Matrix 801s SII, SCM 8, ASW 800, 805s, HTM 800
Tuner : Magnum Dynalab 'MD 102+
Magnum Dynalab 'Signal Sleuth 205'
Headphone : Headroom Blockhead and Sennheiser 600 with Cardas cable
Interconnects: Acoustic Zen Hologram Ref II and Silver Ref II, Transparent Ultra XL, Harmonic Technology Magic and Pro Silway II, Kimber Orchard, NBS master AES/EBU
Speaker Cables: Audioquest Volcano Biwire, Kimber 8tc
Power Cables: Harmonic Technology AC-10, Shunyata Black Mamba VII, NBS Monitor II, Virtual Dynamics Nite, JPS Labs Digital AC,
Power Conditioner: BPT 3.5 Signature series and Tice Video Solo
Projector: Sony CRT
Line Doubler: Runco SC4200
Video cable: Transparent Premium SVS, Kimber RGBHV D30, Better Cables VGA,
Screen: Stewart Four Way Masking
Tweaks: Symposium Ultra platforms, Aurios 1.2s, Cardas caps, Symposium roller balls 2+, Polycrystal cones and spikes, and platform, Sound Anchor amp stands,
Rack: Lovan

Monrio Asty cd
Labtek 300B valve amplifier 9w
Usher 737 floor stand loudspeakers

My main system-Rotel Rcd 951 cd player
Denon PMA 2000r integrated amp
B&W Cdm1 nt speakers
comes in second to the best system I have built-
Musical Fidelity X-can V2 headphone amplifier
Sennheiser Hd 600 headphones
Rotel Rcd 951 cd player
Neither comes all that close to real life, but both are satisfying and the best I have had. I think the headphone set up has greater presense and has a more natural sound, or so it seems. At the very least, it has an ease to it that I find very appealing. The Denon is huge and heavy and a bit squat, and somehow I have become fond of it. I would like to see what becomes of it given a "better" cd player than the 951- would like to go full circle before I consider replacing it, even as I suspect it is the weakest link in this combination.