Does anyone out there have a liquid system

More lush than liquid...would not be to hard to push it's sound towards liquid though.

The tubes I'm using in my Audioprism Mantissa (NOS Amperex 7308's) give only a nice rounding to the mid-range...My Krell Ksa-250 is on the warmer side of neutral and the Apogee Duetta Signatures are lush my nature.

Sold my Sony XA-777es and am thinking about adding a tubed DAC or CD player soon...leaning towards a modded Jolida.

Cables are Acoustic Zen and Harmonic Technology along with Apogee for digital cable.

Dave

I think I have a fairr amount of liquidity, everywhere but the bank account that is! Seriously though, I just moved and the system is loving the new room, I like to call it liquid transaprency. A Tube Technology CD player/ Rega P3>Camelot Lancelot Phono>Herron VTSP1A preamp>KR Audio V300 Antares amp>Alon Lotus SE MkIII speakers. Aaahhhhh!!!!! I'll be posting new pics and stuff soon.

I've read your other posts on this subject and can relate to your frustrations, however given the various known attributes which system components have, its what you do with them that will give you the sound you want. Its a long trip for most of us to get there and our just giving you a list of components we use is highly unlike to help you at all. Hell, I doubt that most of us could agree on what "liquid" means let alone most anything else. I have a very smooth musical system, rich, warm, liquid(?), but I'd bet if I just delivered this stuff to your house you'd still be working on setting it up 6 months from now to get to where I have it.

I would suggest that its time to back off, take a deep breath, and start some serious evaluation of you room, your set up, and what you think might be missing from your system (or what you already have too much of) that keeps it from being what you want. Only you can hear your stuff in your room and only you can determine when it sounds right.

I appoligize in advance for the lecture, especially if you find it offensive, thats not my intent.

There are lots of proponents of smoother, more liquid sound. They all seem to share a couple of traits - tubes, vinyl, copper wire, and staying away from metal dome tweeters.

I also have found smooth bliss with my tubed Audio Prism Mantissa preamp (Hi, Sogood51) feeding a near Rev A McCormack DNA .5 amp. I've got speakers with a very even and musical sound (yes, soft dome Scanspeak tweeters), but I modded them myself to get them there. The vinyl sounds great with a tubes phono stage (Hagerman Coronet) and the digital is smooth and detailed enough that I don't constantly feel the need to play vinyl (EA modded Sony 7700 into a modded ART DI/O). Belden 89248/89259 IC's feed everything.

You may notice a common theme - everything is modded or DIY. I never could have gotten where I am without slinging some soldier, unless I had oodles of $$$ and lots of time and patience to try and try again.

Good luck,
Bob

I know what you are looking for as I was looking for the same. My system is on the laid back side but that is what I like. It has detail but is not mechanical. Musicality is the key. Stay away from Metal dome speakers and foward bright equipment.

Get yourself a Tube integrated and a pair of speakers you have auditioned and stick with one cable brand throughout for your interconnects, speaker wire and powercords.

There is some great advice in this thread. My system is in very simple form right now but it has a full liquid character. Good luck!

Chris