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

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For those who keep up with mwstewarts car projects, his speaker foray is surprisingly tame. You would have thought he would have pulled both the speaker and amp to bits and replaced everything

[Sheets Tabuer]

wolfracesonic said:

Not that I notice, however being 54 my hearing is probably not the acutest anymore Is it a known issue?

Yes your hearing declines with age.

[thebraketester]

Sheets Tabuer said:

wolfracesonic said:

Not that I notice, however being 54 my hearing is probably not the acutest anymore Is it a known issue?

Yes your hearing declines with age.

Eh?

[Sheets Tabuer]

He said he can't hear well anymore at 54, is it a known issue.

Nevermind it was funnier in my head.

[Spleen]

Psittacoidea?

[thebraketester]

[dmsims]

I have finally found a decent replacement for the the Primare 30.1 driving the HiFiman HE6

The Topping A90 is lovely and can now put all the kit on the desk:

[wolfracesonic]

Sheets Tabuer said:

He said he can't hear well anymore at 54, is it a known issue.

Nevermind it was funnier in my head.

Don’t worry, I got it

[thebraketester]

wolfracesonic said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

He said he can't hear well anymore at 54, is it a known issue.

Nevermind it was funnier in my head.

Don’t worry, I got it

I think we are all on the same page. :-)

[WolvesWill]

Technics SL-1210GR with Ortofon 2M Bronze cartridge
Audiolab 6000 CDT CD transport
Lyngdorf TDAi-1120 streamer/DAC/amplifier
Sony UBP-X700 4K blu ray player
Revel Concerta2 M16 speakers on the Revel stands
SVS 3000 Micro active subwoofer
43 inch Samsung 8000 series TV

The Lyngdorf brings this all together nicely for music, the 'roomperfect' DSP and settings for subwoofer integration have really impressed me, and the inbuilt MM phono stage isnt half bad either (good enough that I sold on the £400 Arcam rPhono that I had planned to use, believing it would be better than the built in one, but I couldn't tell the difference).

Not the most purist setup here but the result still sounds impressive to me.

[Bibbs]

Just had my HiFi Amp repaired after some overuse at Xmas. Thermo fuse blew in the transformer. 12 hours of music in 40 degree heat.

Most is late 90s, early 00s.

Sony TA-FB940R Amplifier
ST-SB920 Reciever
SEQ-411 Equaliser
CDP-XE530 CD Player
MDS-JE530 MD Player
TC-WE475 Cassete Player
LX-310 Turntable
Apple Airport Express

Jensen X7 main speakers
Jensen X3 bookshelf speakers

[wolfracesonic]

dmsims said:

I have finally found a decent replacement for the the Primare 30.1 driving the HiFiman HE6

The Topping A90 is lovely and can now put all the kit on the desk:

Just Googled the Topping to see what power it had to drive the HE6s, 7.6watts should do

[Roundm]

Just replaced my set of 4 x TDL RTL3s connected to a Yamaha 595 pro logic amp.

With 4x Meridian Dsp5000 and a dsp5000c controlled by a meridian g65. Sources are the tv via optical (from a Virgin v6 and a pioneer blueray) and a raspberry pi running with hifiberry digital hat as a streaming Roon endpoint.

Speakers from 1995, controller from 2010

Sounds awesome!

Edited by Roundm on Monday 17th January 23:14

[Magnum 475]

Roundm said:

Just replaced my set of 4 x TDL RTL3s connected to a Yamaha 595 pro logic amp.

With 4x Meridian Dsp5000 and a dsp5000c controlled by a meridian g65. Sources are the tv via optical (from a Virgin v6 and a pioneer blueray) and a raspberry pi running with hifiberry digital hat as a streaming Roon endpoint.

Speakers from 1995, controller from 2010

Sounds awesome!

Edited by Roundm on Monday 17th January 23:14

Meridian kit is hard to beat - I've just realised that my Meridian gear is now well over 20 years old and still sounds as good as new - although I'm using Meridian sources and amps to drive Martin Logan speakers.

[stevoknevo]

Been on a quest to have a minimal set-up with only speakers in view, managed to finally get there the other day with the purchase of an XTZ A2-300 power amp - Raspberry PI4 running moOde OS with Audioquest jitterbug into a Topping E30 DAC>XTZ A2-300>PMC GB1 - mainly listen to Qobuz or Paradise Radio, occasionally local files of my own CD FLACs stored on the Pi, operated from my phone/Mac using Bubble UPnP, and all the kit now resides in the top drawer of the unit.

[walamai]

stevoknevo said:

.... Raspberry PI4 running moOde OS with Audioquest jitterbug into a Topping E30 DAC .....

I've been looking for a simple DIY way to run a DSP on something like a Raspberry Pi and I'd not come across moOde, that looks brilliant.

Question though - what is the jitterbug doing in your setup? The Topping E30 has its own power supply, and the jitterbug is just passing through digital data, so I'm not sure what benefit it could be adding?

[stevoknevo]

walamai said:

stevoknevo said:

.... Raspberry PI4 running moOde OS with Audioquest jitterbug into a Topping E30 DAC .....

I've been looking for a simple DIY way to run a DSP on something like a Raspberry Pi and I'd not come across moOde, that looks brilliant.

Question though - what is the jitterbug doing in your setup? The Topping E30 has its own power supply, and the jitterbug is just passing through digital data, so I'm not sure what benefit it could be adding?

Yes there's Camilla DSP built in to moOde but I've never messed with it yet (I may do at some point as I was running an Anthem receiver and using ARC room compensation - going to run the new set-up for a bit first and see if I need it?) I like moOde though, really well featured even if I don't use most of it.

I got the Jitterbug cheap, Audio Science Review says it does nothing, a couple of trusted reviewers says it brings marginal improvements and for £20...
I run the Topping from a powerbank and since installing the Jitterbug I have to charge it less often, so it does seems to be doing something?

[Spleen]

stevoknevo said:

Yes there's Camilla DSP built in to moOde but I've never messed with it yet (I may do at some point as I was running an Anthem receiver and using ARC room compensation - going to run the new set-up for a bit first and see if I need it?) I like moOde though, really well featured even if I don't use most of it.

I got the Jitterbug cheap, Audio Science Review says it does nothing, a couple of trusted reviewers says it brings marginal improvements and for £20...
I run the Topping from a powerbank and since installing the Jitterbug I have to charge it less often, so it does seems to be doing something?

Thursday.

[dontfollowme]

Anyone got NAD to make a repair to an amplifier? Website says Seven Oaks are the distributor; is it them that would ultimately repair it?

[thebraketester]

dontfollowme said:

Anyone got NAD to make a repair to an amplifier? Website says Seven Oaks are the distributor; is it them that would ultimately repair it?

I repaired mine myself. What's the issue with it? Usually the caps that go bad.