CD/SACD player
- Merrill Williams Audio Heirloom mkIII
Belt-driven suspended TT with AC synchronous motor, acrylic platter, and peripheral and spindle clamps. Upgraded with micro-processor speed controller and cork/rubber/lead Merrill mat.
Original Wilson Benesch A.C.T. critically dampened carbon fiber uni-pivot tonearm with Cardas phono wire.
Non-permeable core low-output moving coil cartridge.
Tube and op-amp high-gain phono preamplifier, heavily modified
David Manley era VTL linestage. Three 12AT7 tubes (Telefunken ECC81).
A/B push-pull stereo tube amplifier, 807 beam power tubes (triode/tetrode switchable), 130 wpc in tetrode mode. 12AT7 phase splitter (GE 5-star) and driver (Sylvania 12AT7WB) tubes.
Dunlavy SC-IV, mid-production with Vifa woofers and upgraded binding posts.
Cardas phono Litz wire, Switchcraft RCA plugs, shielding grounded at preamp input end only.
Four 14-strand CAT5 cables per channel (bi-wired), bare wire termination to amp (thanks to David Manley for the massive binding posts), spade lug termination at speaker binding posts.
