What’s your Hi-Fi set up? spec and pictures please

[Miocene]

baptistsan said:

Like your rack, assume it's height adjustable?

... That could easily be taken out of context!

[baptistsan]

[Itsallicanafford]

Second system is finished...digital only to compliment the analogue only in the lounge

Naim uniti Atom and a quiet pc i7 based machine running as a headless roon core. Tidal hi-if with hardware hard wired into Ethernet. iPad Pro as remote. 50m of Structural cabling is by chord to 4 termination points for placement options for Eclipse Td508mk3










Lounge system....

[dvshannow]

Itsallicanafford said:

Second system is finished...digital only to compliment the analogue only in the lounge

Naim uniti Atom and a quiet pc i7 based machine running as a headless roon core. Tidal hi-if with hardware hard wired into Ethernet. iPad Pro as remote. 50m of Structural cabling is by chord to 4 termination points for placement options for Eclipse Td508mk3










Lounge system....

How does it all sound your house looks v acoustically unfriendly

[Itsallicanafford]

^^ Hugely so! This part of the house is an irregular shape, is open to further rooms and also has quite abit of glass. The room is a huge factor in the sound.

In my mind it does work and that’s got a lot to do with the speakers. The eclipse speakers are not very fussy when it comes to placement and their speed and accuracy works well with the music I tend to listen to. Also, you can really focus their sound to where you are sitting in the room to cut down the room’s effect. I know the eclipse range is not everybodies cup of tea but play to their strengths and they are magically little speakers.

[legzr1]

Itsallicanafford said:

^^ Hugely so! This part of the house is an irregular shape, is open to further rooms and also has quite abit of glass. The room is a huge factor in the sound.

In my mind it does work and that’s got a lot to do with the speakers. The eclipse speakers are not very fussy when it comes to placement and their speed and accuracy works well with the music I tend to listen to. Also, you can really focus their sound to where you are sitting in the room to cut down the room’s effect. I know the eclipse range is not everybodies cup of tea but play to their strengths and they are magically little speakers.

Lovely modern space but unfortunately that doesn’t always sit well with music playback.

It doesn’t sound like it’s causing you too much concern and I bet 99% of the iPod and MP3 generation would be amazed at the sound (or probably just don’t care) but there are lots of excellent and reasonably priced solutions out there so solve any future issues such as Dirac with rew software, DSP products and top-notch stuff from Lyngdorf.

My room is sparsely decorated and I have some small issues (mainly in the low bass) but I can live with it for now but I’m looking as DSP for the near future. Had great results using it with subwoofers in the past.

My point is that there are solutions for having a stylish space and a great sound that weren’t available even 10years ago.

[gizlaroc]

He is running Roon, which has decent Room Correction and super powerful EQ built in.


After moving my Harbeths on I needed a speaker to tide me over while waiting for some SHL5+ Harbeths to turn up at the right price and right colour, so I picked up a pair of Celestion Ditton 15's.

I also bought from Gumtree a cheap Marantz PM4200 because it was local and £40.
Raspberry Pi - Meridian Explorer 2 Dac and Roon and I have to say I am still laughing at just how 'nice' it sounds.
I bought it back in Feb, total cost is what? £250? And I am having a hard time justifying spending the best part of £3,500 on the Harbeths and the Yamaha amp I wanted.
So much so I'm just not going to bother.

All hidden away behind the sofa, I don't want to see any kit anymore....

[Itsallicanafford]

DSP is a new thing for me, going to enjoy playing about and learning more about how this works with roon

[bbunited]

Oh go on then!

Lounge:

Rotel RSP 1098 Processor
Rotel RMB 1075 Amp
Rotel RMB 1070 Amp
Rotel RDV 1050E DVD
Rega RS7 Speakers
Rega RS3 Speakers
Rega RS1 Speakers
Allen Heath DB4 Mixer
Pioneer CDJ 2000's

Office

Harman Kardon AVR 265 AV
Technics 12010 M3D Turntables
Allen Heath Xone 23 Mixer
Q Acoustics 3020

[OldSkoolRS]

bbunited said:

Oh go on then!

You missed the Orange Crush practice amp off your kit list.

[bbunited]

OldSkoolRS said:

You missed the Orange Crush practice amp off your kit list.

He he, so I did. A lovely little amp

[anonymous-user]

Itsallicanafford said:

Second system is finished...digital only to compliment the analogue only in the lounge

Naim uniti Atom and a quiet pc i7 based machine running as a headless roon core. Tidal hi-if with hardware hard wired into Ethernet. iPad Pro as remote. 50m of Structural cabling is by chord to 4 termination points for placement options for Eclipse Td508mk3










Lounge system....

you appear to live in an office.
Do you not get horrific reflections with all those hard surfaces?

[skylarking808]

chels said:

You have a really good set up there mate I love the way you have mixed up all the different components of your system.

I agree looks an interesting arrangement.

What I am VERY impressed with and perhaps a little envious of is the bendy light by the turntable!
This person knows what they are doing. How many times have i wished for one late at night trying to read record labels or looking for tracks on the deck.

[Gurbinder]

Naim 32.5 Avondale modded
Naim HiCap TPR 4
Naim Nap 140
Modded Linn LP12 with Lingo 1
Naim SBL Speakers

[curlyks2]

Not in the same hifi league as some of the setups in this thread...

Lounge
Cambridge Audio Azur 752BD
Cambridge Audio CXR200
Monitor Audio Bronze 6s (L+R)
Monitor Audio Bronze Centre
Monitor Audio Bronze FXs (rears)
KRK 12sHO (sub)

Office
Source is various things (computers, keyboard, guitar pedal board) into a Behringer X32 Rack mixer
KRK Rokit 5 G3s
KRK 8s

Conservatory
Sony BDP-S790
JVC AX-411
JBL Control 1 Pros

[Bonefish Blues]

I think I described mine but never photographed it. Here you go:
ETA
Mark Levinson 39 cd player and much else (it's now doing pre-amp and DAC duty, too)
NAD S200 Silverline power amp
Zingali Overture.2S speakers
JPS biwired speaker cables, balanced interconnect and power leads
Recently added a Cocktail Audio X12 box with all the CDs ripped as lossless. It also acts as the digital radio source

All rather odd as a combination, but it plays my music beautifully.

Edited by Bonefish Blues on Sunday 7th April 10:54

[bazza.]

baptistsan said:

Wembley '86?

Like your rack, assume it's height adjustable?

Sorry for the very late reply you can adjust it a little say 5mm any more than that
And you have to order new legs from the company like i had to ,so to let the amp
Stay cooler as it really kicks out of some heat

[Nickgnome]

Meridian 861V8
Meridian 7000 speakers
Meridian 5200 centre speaker
Meridian 3100 rear speakers
Meridian G98 DVD player
Meridian Media Core 200
Meridian HD621 HDMI switcher
Marantz UD7006 Universal Disc player
Michell Orbe SE
Origin Live Illustrious with Dynavector DX5
Isotek Vision mains outlets
Trichlord Diablo with NCPSU
Pioneer 5090 Plasma

[Sford]

Cyrus 3i amp, XPA stereo power amp and power supply running to KEF R500 speakers through QED cables. Linn Axis turntable and Amazon Input/Spotify for source material.

Kef 2005.1 eggs with a REL subwoofer and Sony STR-DN1080 amplifier, Sony TV (had it ages, can't remember the model) and Sony Blu-Ray player for any AV.

Not the most expensive but makes TV/films/music sound great. Can't hide the Aldi candle in there, my wife seems to love the smell of that one! This is in it's usual state and not tarted up for a pic. I try and keep the area relatively tidy and not allow loads of records to build up on the side.

Edited by Sford on Monday 15th April 13:17

[Tony1963]

Gurbinder said:

Naim 32.5 Avondale modded
Naim HiCap TPR 4
Naim Nap 140
Modded Linn LP12 with Lingo 1
Naim SBL Speakers

Now that is a lovely set up. I bet you feel no urge to change anything once it's rocking away.

I'm looking at modding my NAP180 with Avondale amp modules this year, then my HiCap again with Avondale mods. Perhaps the 102 pre will get played with eventually, as there are some great mods out there.