it's a big room all stone walls, uneven a, slightly asymetrical, wood floors on oak beams, high ceiling; (oak beams with plasterboard between them) (otherwise the heat would escape into the attic space) This house dates from the 15th cent. but the part you see is 18th. The wiring is recent! I have no absorbent materials other than the rugs you see. Their is a sofa facing and a fireplace behind and an open doorway. It's a bit on the cold side (the fireplace is condemned) Really considering the hard surfaces the room is not boomy or echo y. Tl speakers with small drivers are easy in this respect. The amp: I thought I said it all! Hard to get simpler. One in, one out. Nothing else. On off and a great passive resistor-based pot sourced from Australia.
I haven't opened it up to see who's in there and M. MArdis told me to stop quizzing him and just listen so I'm none the wiser. 2X75 watts is whwat this Ice Module puts out. It's burning in non-stop. Very suave and musical little amp. Mine is a one-off and differs from the one sold by AudioMagus in numerous ways that I can't reveal cause I don't know except that it is a lot better says the man. I am sorry I don't have an indicator light and that the on off switch is not on the back! No matter how long and how hard it's run it never gets even warm and my speakers lose their cool long before the amp is anywhere near clipping, or whatever ice amps do when pushed too hard. The stand is a weird thing I bought at a flea market, obviously made by hand. It was the only think that had open sides, which I needed because the speaker wires are so short. To offset obvious vibrations, airborn and floor generated, the plywood "shelves" are sitting on felt and the cd player on a home-brew mix of cardboard, felt and some board I picked up at an art store that has paper sides and some kind of synthetic infill. Who knows if this all works! I once tried suspending gear from a ceiling by wires...back when I was really neurotic, but it was a serious pain to do.
So that's the long and short of it...seriously minimal! The cdp is an OLD MArantz 67mkII seriously modified by a great guy in England who has become something of a guru for this kind of thing (no it don't come cheap and I coudn't afford to go the next levels) all thanks to DIY Forum which is a treasure trove. Speaker wire is OCCC single core sourced in Singapore and the interconnect courtesy of this forum group buy from Grover, who I suppose has already changed it yet again?
