I think it is 5 or 6 years since I last posted my system here, when I still lived in Jakarta. Now I am home in England and live in Dorset. Having just taken delivery of a new rack made for me by a local cabinet maker, I had to clean everything, so it is a good time to photograph it, before it all gets dusty again.
I have streamlined the system, disposing of the P10 Power Plant and the (very fine) Ayre KX-R pre amp. The P10 seemed unnecessary now, and the pre amp was just being used as an ultra expensive volume control, since all source switching is done by the DAC, which also has a pre amp stage.
The DAC pre amp is inevitably relatively inferior, and definitely brighter, but still very good, and as my ears get older, a soupçon of brightness has some upside.
Apart from Roon on the ethernet input of the DAC, it takes a USB feed from the local PC, and a toslink feed from the TV for cable and free to air viewing.
So the system is now simply:
Ayre QX-5 DAC / Pre amp
Ayre MX-R monobloc power amps
Dynaudio Confidence C4 Signature speakers
Power cables are MCRU Ultimates and signal cables are Chord Sarum Tuned Arays. Power is from unswitched Schuko sockets on a separate spur installed when we renovated the house before moving in.
The isolation platforms for the speakers and power amps are by Sonority Design. The DAC just has sorbothane pads under it.
Tunes come from upstairs on an i7 10th gen NUC running ROCK with an 8TB SSD via the home ethernet network and an EtherRegen switch. Local control is from the noiseless NUC between the 2 power amps plus a backlit wireless Corsair keyboard with track pad. The local NUC is also there to stream video from a NAS elsewhere in the house, using JRiver.
Enough talk, on to some photos:
The traditional listening seat shot.
The room is about 10 metres x 4.6 metres, but with windows at each end, and it was appropriate for us to have the speakers firing across the short width. This means that they are closer to the wall than I would prefer, but the results are still very satisfactory.
The rack is solid oak, except the shelves which are oak veneered MDF, all stained and polished to be more in keeping with the speakers. It has centre legs to support the massive weight of the power amps, and all six legs have little wheels set deeply into them so the rack can be pulled out to give easy access to the cabling when required. The old rack had washing machine slider wheels, which worked but lacked finesse 
