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While my Audio Research > Bryston > Acoustat system is in storage, I'm building a new set of gear for my desktop. Given the scale, I'm thinking of a small tube amp, with speakers to match. Very simple and musical.
I tend to listen to jazz (not just small ensembles), country, blues, and chamber music, but I'd like gear that can also serve up some late 19th c. symphonies and large scale rock 'n' roll like the Grateful Dead. I used to play bass, so there's usually some solo bass (e.g. Dave Holland) in a week's listening, and I'm partial to the lower frequencies in general: tuba, french horn, trombone, bari sax, left-hand on piano, etc. So it's important to get those instruments right -- timbre, attack & decay. I want to hear the sync between a double bass & bass drum as two instruments, for instance. That's not necessarily the same as big bass, in my book.
Speakers that interest me so far include the Omega Super 3 Desktop, Tekton Mini Lore Monitor, Decware Trapezium, Zu Cube, and Blumenstein Orcas. Blumenstein and Zu seem pretty explicit about the need for a subwoofer, so I'm wondering about that, too. Amps so far are the Decware SE84CKC, what was known as the MiniWatt and now the APPJ PA0901A (I think), the Xindek MT-1, and the Jolida FX-10.
I've only read about these. Although I'm in suburban Chicago, the 3rd largest metro area in the country, so far as I can tell none of these manufacturers have dealers. Decware's Peoria headquarters would be a day trip.
I already have a small DAC, the Meridian Explorer, the Klipsch X11 in-ears, and an 8 GB MacBook Pro running Audirvana+.
Eager to hear anyone's experiences with this gear, further alternative choices, and any suggestions as to how I could audition some of this wonderful gear.
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I've had a desktop system comprised of a generic PC running iTunes or Windows Media Player through an EMU-1212 into a Bottlehead SEX Amp. I mostly used it to drive Sennheiser HD600 headphones, and that was a great setup. I also used it to drive some DIY TQWT cabinets with Radio Shack 40-1354 drivers (at one time, a 'find' in the single-driver world). That was also nice.
I've heard, at the Blumenstein showroom here in Seattle, the Blumenstein Orca's or Orca mini's and matching sub, driven by a Bottlehead SEX Amp (the Orca's - not the sub is self-powered). Source was, iirc, PC audio through a Wavelength Audio DAC. That was truly awesome - a quantum leap above the TQWT's and as far as I'm concerned, I'll look no further for a desktop setup. (I'd do the Orca minis and the matching Dungeness sub).
Zu Cubes would require a pretty good-sized desk :-p
But yeah, I'd run a sub with any of those, especially the Orcas.
Jim J.
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