We just got home from a trip to visit Danny Richie, Hobbs, Christy et al in Teaxas. We had a wonderful time. Danny and Christy are great friends and hosts.
The reason for the trip is to begin a transition of the manufacture of The BUSS-Line to GR. That is not the reason for this post.
Danny and I spent a day in his make-do listening room. I have to say that I have never had as much fun in audio or experienced as a total immersive audio experience in my life.
You can see his room/system here:
https://gr-research.com/product/nx-treme/The system is nothing short of stunning and awe-inspiring!
Equipment list consisted of:
Folsom modified Folsom 7293 chip amps ( with HUGE ) power supplies. They are insanely good. Good job, Jeremy!
Speaker cables and power cables are proprietary GR designs.
Interconnects: no idea.
A Dodd Audio preamp... damn I miss you, Gary!
A Mac mini (2012 : 16GB RAM : 500G SSD the runs on dB Audio Labs proprietary software designed by my friend Darrell McCombs. This combo is what I use, too.. only this one runs on battery power
An OWC hard drive.
DAC is the Dodd Audio DAZc that Gary, Rich Hollis and I all developed. Runs Redbook and hi-rez
Everything is FireWire connected. More on this later.
Speakers are NXtremes and dual 3 driver servo subs driven with Rythmik Audio A370PEQ amplifiers
Cabling is GR Research
I have never, ever heard a presentation with the dynamic impact, depth, faithfulness to timbre and overall musicality that lives in that system.
I was floored.
Then the fun started. More, later!
