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I joined the forum about 2 years ago when I purchased my RAAL Towers, but I've only lurked in various threads. After reading about a potential tower upgrade in the Sierra LX thread, I figured I'd go ahead and share my setup. Somehow my A/V budget always gets spent on the audio side...
DAC/Preamp: miniDSP DDRC-24
Amplifier: VTV Hypex NC502MP
Speakers: Sierra Tower w/ RAAL
Subwoofer: Rythmik L12
For dedicated listening sessions, I usually move the sofa and coffee table out of the way and put the recliner in the MLP
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* Sierra-2EX's W/V2 crossover upgrade
* (2) Rythmik F12's
* Parasound Halo P6
* Audio by Van Alstine DVA-M225 Monoblock Amps
* MiniDSP 2x4HD For Sub calibration
*World's Best Cables Canare 4S11 speaker cables
For a while, I had them right up against the wall to provide some boundary gain which helped with the crossover to the sub. It might be psychological, but I get a deeper soundstage when I move them further into the room. That started causing SBIR problems, so I wound up here, with them 4' into the room.
Either FLAC off my PLEX server or Tidal. It's connected via USB to a SFF HTPC.
Which VTV amp do you have, and have you opened it up at all? I saw a couple of comments about you sending an amp back in the LX thread. I bought mine used after they had supposedly fixed their QC issues, but the wiring is pretty bad (pin 1 XLR chassis grounds not done correctly, bad soldering, etc.). I might try to ask Buckeye amps if I can swap my Hypex amp into his case with the new auto-sensing board and soft start features.
Nice looking system and room. I am using my system in stereo only so far, and my Horizon Center still in the box since I receive it six month ago...
The streaming service I use is Qobuz, it replaced Tidal I used to use since two years ago, and they have many albums in hi-res format that is quite nice.
I got this one:
https://vtvamplifier.com/product/vtv...hypex-nc252mp/
I have had it about four months now. Yeah, I did a lot of research and read about the QC issues, but took a chance. I haven't opened it, and I did have an issue, but it has seems to have cleared up.
I also researched Buckeye, but the wait times were too long for me, and pricing a bit higher.
VTV/Warren has been good in communicating with me, and seems to be more than willing to take the amp back and troubleshoot. It just sounds so good, and it may just be in my head, I just don't want to take it out of the system. I still have my old ATI as back-up.
-curtis
I have two of the VTV amps (with Pascal modules) but haven't opened either. Although I did read about the QC issues/less attention to details, I went ahead and got the first 4 channel a couple of years ago to drive ATMOS speakers. No issues at all. I moved to a custom 7 channel Pascal amp (1x250 for center, 6x125 for surrounds/heights) when I got my AVM70 as I needed additional amplification. Have had that in my system for 8 months or so. Sounds great and no issues.
As with Curtis, no issues with Warren's communication. I've also bought tubes from him in the past.
* LG OLED65E6P, BenqHT2050A
* Anthem AVM90, Rogue ST100, VTV Pascal 7 ch
* Sierra Towers/Horizon (all ELX RAAL), S2EXv2 surrounds, HTM200SEx4 heights, Rythmik E15HPx2
* VPI Classic 1+ (VTA & Fatboy Gimbal), PE Eagle/RR, VAS NOVA, Soundsmith Paua, Manley Chinook, Bob's Devices SUT, SugarCube 1 mini
* Oppo 203 & 103D, EverSolo DMP-A6
* miniDSP Flex, Audiosensibility & Blue Jeans cables, Symposium & Isoacoustics, GIK
* For RDJ: Anthem MRX720, Sierra LX, Luna Duo v2 center, CXNv2, TBD
Of course! The new site looks great btw.
I'm glad to hear other people have had good experiences with VTV and their customer service. I reached out via the "Contact Us" page on their website and never heard back, but that was a while ago. Right now, everything works, so I'm inclined to leave everything alone and enjoy the music.