Chris A

Speakers: 2007 Klipsch Jubilees (two-way w/TAD TD-4002 HF drivers in front corners), full-range multiple-entry K-402/BMS 4592ND with two Crites 15" cast frame woofers (center), '82 Belle bass bins with bi-amped ESS AMT-1s (surrounds), 14 Hz DIY tapped horns behind each Jubilee bass bin (subs)...a fully horn-loaded 5.1 surround sound setup.

Amplifiers: First Watt F3 driving TAD TD-4002s on left and right Jubilee K-402 HF horns, Crown D-75As tri-amping center and bi-amping surrounds/front bass bins, and Crown XTi-1000s driving TH subs.

Preamplifier/DAC: Emotiva XMC-1 or Topping D10 Balanced (2 channel only)

Active crossovers: Xilica XP-8080 DSP crossover crossing 2-way Jubilees and crossing center 3-way K-402-MEH, miniDSP 2x4 HD crossing Belle bass bin/AMT-1 surrounds, XTi-1000 DSPs EQing subs.

Sources: Oppo BDP-103, PS3, desktop PC running foobar2000 with CD/DVD-A collection ripped to FLAC.

Turntable/Phono preamplifier: 1962 Empire 398 with 980 arm, Stanton 681 EEE MK. III, transcription phono preamplifier

TV: 60" Sharp Aquos Quattron.

Room dimensions: 40' L x 15.5' W x 9' H (5510 cubic feet), (12 x 4.7 x 2.7 metres--152 cubic metres) [relative dimensions 1:1.7:4.4], listening chairs 11' (3.3 m) from front wall. Auralex Sonofiber tiles to control early reflections (shown below in EDT plot), doubled Owens-Corning 703 bass traps in front corners.

Digital music album genres: classical 35%, jazz and fusion 19%, rock 19%, new age 5%, Christmas 4%, soundtrack 4%, other 4%, pop 2%, folk 2%, country 1%, world 1%, dance 1%, blues 1%, & soul 1%. More than 24K tracks in >1800 albums within a FLAC library, >75% of which includes demastered stereo and multichannel tracks from CDs, DVD-As, DTS, and SACDs. FLAC and SACD albums as of April 2021: Chris A FLAC and SACD library by genre (April 2021).pdfChris A SACD only library by genre (April 2021).pdf

System Goals: Integrated 2-channel/HT, fully horn loaded (very low modulation distortion), phase and group delay growth. No tube amplification, passive crossovers or bass reflex ports.  Very high accuracy/dynamic sound reproduction.

System Strengths: Fully EQed, time/phase-aligned crossovers for each loudspeaker using active digital crossovers. All drivers/loudspeakers time aligned, manually EQed, and crossed using fractional order crossover filters for an overall system frequency response of 14 Hz--20 kHz ± 1.5 dB, acoustic phase response within  ±90 degrees from 100 Hz to 20 kHz (at listening positions using psychoacoustic smoothing).