Who R U?

Welcome dude! I have a 12 year old daughter!! YIKES!! boys and clothes! My system is Rega Planar 25 with RB-600 arm/Grado Platinum cartidge soon to be replaced with a Grado Reference.The TT sits on a Bright Star Audio Big Rock (love that sand Kelly) which sits on a home made wall shelf.Next in the chain is my Rogue Audio 99 with phono.I have Telefunkens and Radiotechniques in the phono stage and some NOS Russian tubes in the line stage.The 99 sits on 3 BDR cones #4's..... The 99 sits on a home made rack made of steel and MDF.From the 99 to my amp is 1 1/2 meter of Harmonic Tech.Pro-Silway MK 2.Since I only have 15 CDs I have a cheap $20 yard sale NEC CDP.This single disc player sounds pretty damn good! I have 1/2 meter of Kimber PBJ from the CDP to the 99.The CDP sits on some vibra-pods.My amp is a Pass Labs Aleph-3 which sits on 50 lbs of granite, which sits on a home made amp stand.Next is 8 feet of MIT T-2 biwire cables that go to my Paradigm Studio 80's (8 ohm,92 dB) I have a Monster conditioner soon to be replaced.(I hope) I made a bunch of room treatments that are very effective and look very nice.I have a ceramic skull that sits by my amp and we stare at each other while the tunes are cranked.Welcome aboard!!!!!

Thank you David99 on your system info, & Swampwalker for your reply. I am fairly new to this, but it is quite fun. I agree It sure is interesting on the amount of self employed, & business owners. I have encountered an anal dude already, he knows who he is. But the good ones override them 10 fold. You guys are kings---thanks alot. I am sure we will talk more. You guys are the ones that make this so fun------keep it up.

Not pc to comment about someone's analism. Man, a wife almost 20 years old? Now that's something to admire, I suppose.

David; happy to see that your thread "has legs"-- hope it keeps going. I posted very early (2nd) in this thread, but nothing about my "system".

I use Levinson M37 transport and M360S DAC connected with Cardas AES/EBU dig. cable. This front end connects to a Sonic Frontiers Line 2 pre-amp and then to a pair of McCormack DNA-2DX Rev. A amps that are used to bi-amp Vandersteen 3Asig. speakers (I have Vand. 5 speakers on order :>). The pre-amp and CD-R sit on Townshend Seimic Sinks. I built my own 200 lb.+ double wide, spiked stereo stand.

Wires are Synergistic Research Phase II ICs with active shielding, and Syn. Res. Sig. No. 2 bi-wire speaker cables. All components have Syn. Res. Master Couplers on them, and are plugged directly into four duplex hubbell dedicated outlets. For room treatment, 5 ASC tube traps,3 ASC Wall Panels, and misc. bookcases, CD cabinets and furniture are used.

Accessories include a Pioneer CD-R, Sony cassette recorder, Monster HTS 1000 (for acc.) and Sennheiser 600 headphones. I also have a 2nd system that is essentially made up of less expensive Vand., SF, and McCormack components. I've got about 1,000 CDs-- need more music! Cheers. Craig

This is an interesting thread. My 18 year old daughter is a major audiophile having grown up with excellent audio equipment all her life in addition to being raised without television (didn't own one from 1981 to 1997). The odd part is that she's tone deaf. When she tried to learn the viola, we immediately realized that she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. But, she loves music. When we go to a concert (Beethoven's 9th comes to mind) I have to tell her, "you better not start to sing". It's painful. However, I've willed the stereo to her. Are there any other tone deaf music lovers out there?