Keep this series going... It's interesting to see other people's systems and listen to what they think about them and how they got to where they are. You also have a relaxed and unpretentious way about you that is refreshing.

Great respect for Thomas, knowledgeable and approachable at the same time. Thanks Thomas

Great conversation! Great speakers. Heard Verity with tube Air Tight... midrange to die for, great balanced sound, with lots is fun!! Great choice of stereo! Thank you both for this incredibly nice video!!!

Bravo, gentlemen! Thanks for your in depth discussion of the process of building this system and tuning the room to work with it! Few of the system videos that I have seen pay much attention to the process aspect of our audiophile passion. 👍👍

Nice video Thomas always great to see other people’s systems and hear stories about there audio journey and what they would like for the future . Good stuff , keep it coming 👍

Thanks for sharing your system and journey.

This channel is destined for great things. This content is superb. Original and real...thank u Thomas.👍

Really enjoyed that... Thank you!!!

Hi Thomas! Thank you for taking us viewers on another sonic adventure. Another incredible system. Please thank the gentleman for sharing it with us viewers. That is an awesome looking room, must be very relaxing listening to some great music. Very interesting commentary. Love these visiting friend's system videos. Thank You Thomas.

Great interview, Thomas!

hey always enjoy taking a tour of other systems thanks

The one thing i often see wrong is the acoustic treatment of these sound rooms. To often I see large amounts of absorption materials. One of the biggest miss conceptions in audio is that you want a dead room. That is completely wrong. Reflections are good, they just need to be slightly delayed. And this gentleman system has a front wall that is completely absent or just draped with a heavy curtain. The front wall MUST be reflective, and if you want any absorption it must be carefully chosen and only on the back wall. Here is the issue with absorption. First all most all absorption material is not linear in its absorption. Meaning it will absorb at certain frequency's and reflect at others, creating comb filtering effects and large coloration's in the overall sound. Diffusion is a much better option and really only is needed if you have slap echo issues from parallel walls, or early reflections do to close proximity of walls IF that is a limitation in the setup. If you look at the best rooms they have minimal acoustic materials used. Slap echo is caused when you have two parallel surfaces. So either diffusion or very light materials on the back wall only, and side walls. You CANNOT place speakers in a room with acoustic material in the listening room. All speaker placement should be done with no treatment and only what must be in the room at all times. What you will notice is that when you get speaker placement right you will hear very little to NO effects of the rooms acoustic coloration's. Once you have the speaker placement correct then you can slowly and carefully play with acoustic treatment in the room to give the desired effect. But be very careful when using ANY absorption materials, to often it will kill the dynamics, openness, and clarity of the system. So go into the process finding the right speaker placement and MINIMAL acoustical treatment. Kevin LaTour 40 years high end audio video specialist

nice job both of you.

Great video! That guys room (and yours, Thomas) is very nice! NYC apartment living makes that very difficult so its nice to live vicariously through your videos

Greetings from Montreal neighbours! I also have a primaluna and love it. Couldn't agree more about learning an instrument, even at a beginner level. The opinions of non musician audiophiles are a strange thing to me.....it's like listening to a car reviewer but they have never driven a car, all their experiences and reviews are based on simulations through a VR headset but have never actually driven the real thing. This is not an insult, just a personal opinion. I think all audio reviewers should have a piano or drum set in their home. Even if you can't play it you can just sit at it and beat on it for a while and then go to the stereo system and listen while you have a real life comparison in your ears.

Lovely gear.

I really enjoy this style of video. (Room tour / opinions about gear / acoustic treatment). It’s got it all. I also have the P6. (It’s somewhere on a boat in the pacific right now. Moving from the US to South Korea. Fingers crossed that it arrives in good condition) I’ve also done all my own room treatment in my last house. Looking forward to tackling the challenges of our new Korean apartment. Thanks fellas for adding to the community in this way and sharing your gear and thoughts. Please do more videos like this.

wow what an amazing video!!! thank you so much for sharing would love to hear an update

FWIW ditching the Ikea chair was my latest room upgrade. I have a chair that allows the ear to be well above the seatback now. It made a significant difference.

Finally someone mentioned PRaT! 👍

Great review! Room tuning is on the near horizon for me.

Thanks for another terrific review, Thomas. Still waiting patiently for your Sopra 2 review, looking forward to it.

Verity Audio really great speakers You get what you pay for.

11:03 whos that yawing in the back LOL ..wake up!!

I have just tube rolled for the first time to use with my Prima Luna intergraded 100. 6L6GC-HARMA RETRO matched quad to use with my Focal Aria's and they sound grate . (Still new but so far possibly even better than Prima Luna's EL34's)

The word you're looking for at 1:40, is "accuracy" I believe. More of a balanced, even sound. I love laughing at all the HUNDREDS of video's in which the guy (always a guy), has a room FULL of SVS subs, and usually Klispch speakers. Always showing the driver's from the side so we can marvel at the excursion. Ah, youth! They will learn one day. ... maybe.

Love the ending. He is lucky. 😁 And I'm glad he said it. He does need a much better phono preamp for that system IMO. I think the digital side might need work too. Not necessarily the DAC, so much as getting the digital signal to it with as little noise as possible. Which is too complicated to get into here. Hans Beekhuyzen is the man for that. 😉 Eventually I would probably change the DAC too though. I would work on the rest first. So I could do fair comparisons, of course. But beyond those small quibbles. Wow! What a system. Totally my style too. And to describe it sounding like a small live venue! I know it's good for sure after hearing that statement. I even like the way he's doing the acoustic treatment upgrades. This guy thinks the same way I do. He's going to save a fortune, and learn a lot. Awesome! Hope you're well Thomas. ✌️

Ha ha ha nice story about the musical paradise dac ,😀

Love these "user's set-up/system" vids,thank you to both of you guys for making this video. I can only personally comment on the Rega equipment (I'm in the u.k.),the P6 great turntable that should always (as long as you can afford) have a quality Cartridge on it. The Rega Fono MC, many people would be blown-away in a blind(or non-blind)test on hearing this little gem,Rega spent most of the cost on the components,even the s.m.p.s that comes with it is of very good quality(now Rega addressed that issue w/the mk3!),either use a Swagman Labs PSU or much much cheaper are,"Ferrite Beads"&, you can easily & cheaply A & B with the Ferrite Beads on the s.m.p.s too. #hifi4ever

Hello from Montreal, I just put a deposit on a pair of used Fidelios. I was just wondering what speaker cable your friend was using and also what he used under the speaker. I see a wooden base. I’m assuming it was just to protect the floor. I have to pick them up in Toronto next week. Thanks for great content.

Did your friend have the same phono amp and was he also running a tube amp? Great video guys👍🏻

Great video Thomas. Love when do on location vids. Loic, I also own Primaluna, Dialogue Premium HP and Im currently thinking about some Mazda tubes to ad to my collection. I wonder what your impressions of them are.....BTW dont by gear based on a Kevin Deal video, I feel there is a used car lot somewhere missing there top salesman.... Cheers

Great video awesome to see journey of other audiophile I am doing the same with my room a little bit of mod listen more mods

Loic you have very nice turntable.Find a dealer with a Rega P8 and a VPI Prime.You might like the tightness and speed of Rega more.The $1500 Clearaudio is nice but nit sure you'd get that much more out of the nice Benz.I remeber hearing Verity Parisfals 20 years ago and if I ever got a chance I'd try them out though now there is a lot of competition .Nice rig for sure

The VA Fidelio will respond well in terms of PRAT if high powered solid state amplification and a good preamp is used. The bass units will produce deep clean frequencies but will also have grunt under the right amplification. As for the turntable, better isolation platform and removing the dust cover while playing LPs will reduce transferred vibration. I thought of that before changing the phono stage because the TT is not yet optimized. What cables including power cables is he using?

Thinking of getting Funk Frim Achromat for my Rega TT as well. If your friend sees this, what thickness would he recommend: 3mm or 5mm?

Would have loved to hear the acoustic sound

Wonderful interview Thomas. A question: since I have the Focals 716 and 706 and love their sound ( specially for classical and jazz, solo piano) , why do I keep hearing about them being great BUT not like MUSICAL, soft some speakers? Focusing on the pros, what is it that actually makes FOCALS special, since I know you also like them a lot? Gus, from Boston

11:03 guy in the speaker XDDD

Hi: what do your feel is the best combo of pre amp tubes (12ax7/12au7)in your Prima Luna?

I own a pair of Verity Fidelio Encores. Great small room speakers. Now though I own a pair of Spatial Audio X-2's which are better for problematic rooms. They are also far more open and transparent, better imagers, better detailed, better dimensionally, at the sweet spot they have better low bass, and the instrumental textures and timbre's are far better represented. They also look a treat.

Hi Loic.. Nice set up but you changed your prima luna tube amplifier .. so quickly any reason why...not tube sounding enough or it's more about finding a better sound.?

Would you recommened the brand of 6922 tube, the one that you are using would be great

nice system，verity audio deserve better front 😃

Thomas if you are into musicality now and not just mechanical detail, check out Proac

I don't like house shaking speakers , but if you want bass , it isn't going to happen with a little 6 or 8 inch woofer. However , if you want to listen to violin music , I guess they'll be ok. Even if you listen to Jazz , you're not going to beat a speaker with a 12 or 15 inch woofer.

Focal aria 948 or the Polk lsim 707 what one sounds better and worth the money ? Price not important at all.. what one would you keep even though they both sound very different from eachother.

Nice yawn, guy in red hoodie at 10:56. LoL (very shiney speakers)

A couple REL subs would improve PRAT>

Sorry if I miss anything here, after listening I still don't know how Verity audio Fidelio encore supposed to sound. Can you enlighten me?

Strange: the sound comes before the hand clap 0:00

Any chance to do a review on Cube Audio? Thanks.

so 6922 can replace an AT7? I've seen contradicting info. Later this year I might tube roll in my MC75s.

Loic how would compare the Fidelio to the Harbeth HL5?

Thomas, How can you listen to these bloody Focal Kantas? It is an instrument of torture! :-) It is very interesting what does your "vintage" friend say about it?

What tubes does he run on the prima luna?

11:02 it looks like that was quite BOARING system 😂😂 JK.

nuance speakers are the equivalent of white van speakers, 55 cent drivers

Does loic have youtube channel? Looks like intresting guy!

Get some Kt77 tubes for the Amp.

I remember those Nuance speakers. They would hire attractive female sales reps to attract buyers, usually in a mall location. Lol

Think about this...if no one who bought a system, any piece in the chain, but weren't allowed to see the equipment and the person auditioning them in the showroom didnt know what they were demoing what do you think this normalization of double blind auditioning would do to the high end industry? It would also demand only hearing not seeing from the hobbyist.

What would you say to a guy who says that hifi is a wast of money ?

cool video. Interesting to see other's systems and hear their thought process. I just replaced my Focal Sopras with the new Wharfedales. I also replaced the PS audio DAC with the new Topping D90 DAC. I'm going to try the Audio Mirror tube DAC next to see if the Topping DAC is holding me back or not. Here is my latest setup kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eth_p5OfttHXnqc.html

A few weeks I'll send a link of perfect 10 sounding cds & vinyl. Ask The Next Big Thing buddy this. Which of these 4 speakers has the best tone. Triangle Bro3 Or Triangle Bro 2 Or PSB P5 or PSB P3. And does the smaller Triangle sound as good as the big one. And does the smaller PSB P3 sound as good as the big one. I care about the mids, not the bass. I wont ask to many questions. If you aren't allowed to answer my questions because of the manufactorers, then that will be ok. Below is a link where this guy makes interconnects by himself that are dirt cheap & great. But I dont want everyone to know it or he will raise his price, You can get him to email you specials real often. www.morrowaudio.com/