Tempe Reference Room — System 1

This is the full-scale statement system in Tempe, and every choice in it is a reference-tier choice.

Wilson Alexx V handles the loudspeaker end — a four-way design from the generation that brought Wilson's Chronosonic-derived thinking down into a loudspeaker that fits a real listening room. Driving it, Dan D'Agostino Momentum M400 MxV monoblocks through a Momentum preamplifier: 400 watts a channel, and amplification designed by a man who has spent four decades treating the amplifier as a musical instrument rather than a component.

Analogue is a Linn Sondek LP12 with the Ekos SE tonearm and Radikal power supply — the platform Linn has been improving continuously since 1972, still upgradeable rather than replaceable. Digital is the Klimax DSM with Linn's own Organik DAC. Transparent Reference XL throughout.