Atelier

LISTENING ROOM

  • New dedicated listening room (house) built from ground up
  • Golden ratio/Fibonacci sequence room size calculations
  • Room size: 5.36 m (wide) 8.6 m (length) 3.2 m (height)
  • Absolute left and right room mirroring
  • Precisely calculated and managed room acoustics and room modes
  • Brick wall construction with special acoustic plaster overlay
  • In-wall solid metal plate inserts (RFI & LF resonances)
  • Perforated ceiling broadband absorber/diffuser multiple zone construction
  • Triangle shaped attic space filled with (45cm) fiberglass insulation and air chamber
  • One piece acoustic textile carpet. Left and right 25 cm floor gravel sections
  • 45 cm solid concrete floor with dedicated 15 cm subfloor acoustic plaster overlay
  • Average RT60 time = 0.47s
  • Room noise floor =  27 dB
  • Custom sound proof (sound trap) door. RI – RW = 45 dB
  • Two special sound glass seven-layer windows. RI – RW = 35 dB

SPEAKERS

  • Zellaton Reference MK2 Special Edition
  • TIDAL Audio PIANO G2

AMPS

  • TIDAL Audio Ferios mono amplifiers
  • WestminsterLab Rei Class A power amplifiers
  • Lumin Amp power amplifier
  • Analog Domain The Isis 75D MK2 
  • Grandinote Demone monoblock power amplifiers

PREAMPS

  • Thrax Audio Libra 300B
  • Nagra HD PREAMP HV
  • The Bespoke Audio Company Ultimate Silver
  • TIDAL Audio Prisma
  • Grandinote Genesi
  • Totaldac d-1 driver mk2 – the amplifier driver
  • MSB Technology Select DAC

DIGITAL SOURCES

  • MSB Technology Select DAC & Digital Director
  • dCS Vivaldi One Apex
  • Aries Cerat Ianus Ithaka 
  • Taiko Audio SGM Extreme music server with 16TB internal storage
  • Taiko Audio Extreme Switch & Network card
  • Taiko Audio Extreme Router
  • Totaldac d1-triunity DAC
  • Aqua Acoustic Quality Formula xHD DAC 
  • LUMIN T2 audiophile network player

ANALOGUE SOURCES

  • Döhmann Helix 1 MK2 turntable 
  • SAT CF1-09 tonearm
  • Kronos PRO turntable – Discovery RS tonearm
  • Vertere Acoustics RG-1 Reference Groove turntable
  • Vertere Acoustics Reference Tonearm Gen III
  • Vertere Acoustics Reference Motor Drive
  • Schröder CB Tonearm (2x)
  • TIDAL For Bugatti MP-1 Phono premplifier
  • TIDAL Audio Prisma
  • THRAX Audio Orpheus phono RIAA preamplifier
  • Grandinote Celio phono preamplifier
  • AFI flat.2 Record Flattener / Relaxer 
  • Degritter ultrasonic record cleaner
  • Furutech Destat III
  • Lyra Atlas Lambda
  • Top Wing Blue Dragon and Red Sparrow cartridges
  • ZYX Ultimate Astro X
  • HANA Umami Red
  • HANA Umami Blue
  • Murasakino Sumile Mono cartridge
  • Gold Note Tuscany Gold cartridge
  • HANA SL and ML cartridges
  • Etsuro Urushi Bordeaux cartridge

RACKS AND STANDS

  • Artesania Audio Exoteryc Rack (3x)
  • Artesania Audio Krion turntable platform
  • Bassocontinuo Revolution X Aeon X Carbon Fiber

CABLES

  • Nordost Valhalla 2 full cable loom
  • Tellurium Q Statement cable loom
  • WestminsterLab cable loom
  • WestminsterLab MSB Select power supply cables
  • JPS Labs cable loom

POWER LINE

  • Separate electric line from transformer substation
  • Doepke DFS 4 audiophile grade circuit braker
  • Nordost QB8 QBASE-Mark II (2x)
  • Nordost QRT – QK1 (2x) and Qv2 (2x)
  • Kemp Elektroniks Ultimate audio grade circuit breaker (cryogen treated and silver/gold plated contacts) and WA-Quantum Power Chip
  • HiFi-Tuning Ultimate² Fuse

USB AND NETWORK CABLES

  • MSB Technology The Pro USB
  • Nordost Valhala 2 USB cable
  • Nordost Valhalla 2 Ethernet cable
  • Totaldac Gigafilter
  • Totaldac ethernet cable/filter

GROUNDING

  • External earth grounding copper rod system
  • Star shaped copper grounding in the concrete floor
  • Nordost QKore 6 grounding unit
  • Nordost full ground cables loom

ACOUSTIC TREATMENT

  • Yter Flexum acoustical enhancer (2x)
  • Kaiser Acoustics Spline diffusors 120 cm x 120 cm (2x)
  • Room mode absorbers taming 31.76 Hz – B0, 66.44 Hz – C2, 126.06 Hz – B2 frequencies 
  • SMT Wing transparent diffusors in front of windows (2x)
  • PYT Audio SMAD Reference panels (15x) on the front wall
  • Highly concentrated acoustic foam bass traps with wooden inlays (10x)

ACCESORIES

  • Nordost Sort Lift (14x)
  • Furutech NCF Booster (6x)