DAGOGO Staff: Constantine Soo

Constantine's wall-to-wall carpeted listening room measures 12 feet wide, 25 feet deep, with an 8-foot high ceiling. To the left of the room is a 4 feet wide hardwood-floored corridor that runs alongside. Separating the corridor from the listening room is an 11-foot long wall that also serves as the left wall. The listening room’s right wall, on the other hand, stretches for a continuous 25 feet until it reaches the rear wall.

The listening position’s perpendicular distance to the front wall is 15 feet approximately, leaving another 10 feet of space behind the couch to the rear wall. An 8-foot wide, 65-inch tall thick drape, hung 18 inches from the carpeted floor, adorns the front wall behind the speakers.

A canvas measuring 40” x 40” hangs atop the fireplace on the right wall midway between the listening position and the front wall, while a 3-foot tall, sliding-door CD trove is positioned against the 11-foot left wall halfway to the listening position. 57 inches to the right of the listening position against the right wall is a six-foot high, 5-foot wide display shelf that harbors CDs.

Acoustic treatment is via the drape, the full carpeting, two 16-inch ASC Tube Traps at the front-wall's corner (behind speakers), 8 ASC flat panels, and two generic, 4-foot by 2-foot absorptive panels and other fixtures. The panels are deployed sporadically and only when needed.

4 pairs of Isoclean ICP-002, gold-plated 2-position wall sockets, running on dedicated, 15 amp AC lines supply power. Power conditioning on digital front-ends and preamplifications are via the Furutech e-TP609 AC Director with matching Furutech Power Reference III AC cables.

Primarily, Constantine listens to classical music of the Classical and Romantic periods, interspersed with occasional Baroque. He enjoys New Age and jazz of the 80’s, scores by John Williams, Philip Glass, Toru Takemitsu, Yoko Kanno, and a few others, some classic rock, sporadic heavy-metal, choice experimentals, plus limited assortment of special-effect discs for use on non-audiophile visitors.

Digital Front End

47 Laboratory 4704 PiTracer CD transport

Audio Note DAC5 Special

Wadia Reference Series 9 Decoding Computer

Amplification

Decware SE84C

Harmonix Reimyo PAT-777 300B stereo amplifier

WAVAC MD-805m

Speakers

Apogee Duetta Signature

Audio Note AN-E SEC Silver

Bösendorfer VC 7

Celestion SL700

Genesis VI

Loth-X BS1

MaxxHorn Immersion

Tannoy Arena

Tannoy Churchill Wideband

Cabling

Audio Note Sogon digital cable (1m, RCA)

Audio Note Sogon interconnect (2m pair, RCA)

Audio Note AN-Vx interconnect (1.5m, RCA)

Audio Note Sogon LX speaker cable (5 feet, spade/banana, bi-wired)

Audio Note AN-V silver interconnect (RCA 1m, 2 pairs)

Audio Note AN-SPx speaker cable (2m, bananas, bi-wired)

Audio Note AN-La copper speaker cable (8 feet, bi-wired)

Combak Harmonix HS-101 SLC speaker cable (8 feet, single-wired)

Granite Audio #470 silver cables (RCA 1m, 2 pairs)

Granite Audio #560 AC Mains (2)

Harmonix Reimyo Studio Master AC cord (4)

Illuminations D-60 75 Ohm digital cable (1.5m, RCA)

Isoclean Super Focus (2)

Virtual Dynamics Testament Series 2 cable system

Accessories

Combak Harmonix Professional Tuning Devices

Salamander Synergy 20 (2), Twin 30 and Amp Stand

ASC Tube Traps and Flat Traps