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[Jabs1542]

It's rs1B Ina TRI Amp setup.

 

Tri-amp, how do you have them set up? Stereo amps for low-mid-high? Are the amps matching? I'm always interested to see how people are making multi amp setups work.

[ALRAINBOW]

It's all the same amps.

Aragon 8008 BB x3

it has a DEQX hdp4 digital cross over

Al

[blueixus]

Just bought a new camera so a chance to share my system.....

 

 

 

All designed to have that PA equipment look/feel to it when in fact it is far from that. The top speakers have a mixture of Seas & Vifa drivers managed by an uber exotic passive XO using all silver foil inductors, Mundorfs finest Silver/oil caps. These are powered by a Class A Sugden Masterclass Power Amp.

 

The active bass units are Eminence Lab12 drivers in sealed boxes with a room matched Linkwitz transform circuit for bass equalisation. They are powered by Avondale NCC200s which are a evolution/derivative of Naim's Nap135 amplifiers

 

The final picture shows the guts of it all which sits behind the main system (mainly out of sight), the active & passive XOs, lots of Linear PSUs for the Mac & External hard drive, plus the Dac which is a NOS DDDAC 1794.

 

 

The system doubles as a 2 channel Hifi system running Mac/Amarra as the music source or a home cinema system. There are 4 decent Monitor Audio surround speakers around the room. No need for a Sub as the main speakers go down to 15Hz or a centre as the screen sits so close to the main monitors.

 

Next years mission is to upgrade the AV pre amp...in the never ending quest!

[IQ_AV]

 

AMD X2-250 Gigabyte Mother board Antec HTPC case Win 7 64 bit PC -> Foobar 2k with ASIO out -> Cambridge Audio DacMagicPlus -> Adcom Amp -> James Loudspeaker Floor Standing -> Klipsch RW-12d S/W; Monoprice XLR to RCA/Audio Quest Interconnect, Monster 12G Speaker Wire, Element 40 in LED

 

I am noob in the Hi-res arena. Had been burning FLAC for while, but still has more 60% of my collection in MP3. Actually started liking Apple formats - ALEC a lot these days. So burning everything in that and restarted collecting CDs that I gave away long time back and getting some tracks from iTune and also from HDtracks. Definitely paying a price to enjoy music again!!!!

[phusis]

Starting with a shot of right channel speaker. More to come..

[wakibaki]

OK, here's my studio...

 

 

Obviously we have some other more domesticated systems in rooms my wife inhabits.

 

From L->R, a few instrument amps (a couple I designed and built), guitars, Dalesman speaker, oscilloscope, joystick, condenser mic & stand, lab psu, computer, 8-channel mixer, color printer, projection DLP HDTV screen, audio amp, DVD player, laptops, MIDI/synth keyboard, regular alphanumeric keyboard, computer monitor, mouse, Samson USB mic, satellite RX, bluray player, solder station, lamps and chargers, Dalesman speaker.

 

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[oscarnr]

New listening room

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Blake]

The system/setup looks terrific Oscar.

[REShaman]

Hello oscarnr,

 

Another level of good enough. Enjoy the music takes on another step up. Lovely to look at too.

 

Best,

Richard

[oscarnr]

The system/setup looks terrific Oscar.

 

Thank you so much. Enjoying it a lot!

 

All the best

Oscar

[oscarnr]

Hello oscarnr,

 

Another level of good enough. Enjoy the music takes on another step up. Lovely to look at too.

 

Best,

Richard

 

Thank you Richard for the kind words!

 

All the best

Oscar

[Jabs1542]

New listening room

 

Wow - great gear in a great room - bravo!

[oscarnr]

Wow - great gear in a great room - bravo!

 

Thanks a lot, Jabs1542!

[EuroChamp]

Hi all together!

 

I never introduced myself. I think, it's a good way to do it here.

 

What you can not see on the pics, is the network infrastructure and storage in the basement and the iPad, where the photos are from.

 

I am really happy with my setup, I "always" enjoy it - even when I come home from an audio-show

Maybe a DSD capable DAC where great, at the moment I convert them to 24/176 on the fly.

 

Rest of the system is explained in my profile.

 

Bernhard

 

 

[lmf22]

Hi all together!

 

I never introduced myself. I think, it's a good way to do it here.

 

What you can not see on the pics, is the network infrastructure and storage in the basement and the iPad, where the photos are from.

 

I am really happy with my setup, I "always" enjoy it - even when I come home from an audio-show

Maybe a DSD capable DAC where great, at the moment I convert them to 24/176 on the fly.

 

Rest of the system is explained in my profile.

 

Bernhard

 

That's a great setup! I used to have the Dynaudio Contour S1.4 and enjoyed it very much. hey are not at my dad's house, and I have the Contour S3.4.

 

The speakers seem to have a very large toe-in. How far apart are the speakers, and how much toe-in is that (distance between the edge of your carpet and front feet)? I'm playing with toe-in of my speakers and found that with a large toe-in, the soundstage gets much narrower. Do you have that experience as well? I ended up with 2cm of toe-in (from edge of carpet to front feet; I don't know how many degrees that is), and my speakers are 2 meters apart (measured from center of one tweeter to the other).

[mayhem13]

That's a great setup! I used to have the Dynaudio Contour S1.4 and enjoyed it very much. hey are not at my dad's house, and I have the Contour S3.4.

 

The speakers seem to have a very large toe-in. How far apart are the speakers, and how much toe-in is that (distance between the edge of your carpet and front feet)? I'm playing with toe-in of my speakers and found that with a large toe-in, the soundstage gets much narrower. Do you have that experience as well? I ended up with 2cm of toe-in (from edge of carpet to front feet; I don't know how many degrees that is), and my speakers are 2 meters apart (measured from center of one tweeter to the other).

 

Placement is always room dependant and what works in one space most likely won't in another. Speakers don't radiate sound across their spectrum in a directive fashion but instead, variable in frequency and direction dependant on the baffle size and shape and the driver's behavior and size. Irregular boundary distance and material will also strongly influence what and when sound arrives at the listener. In the case of the poster's system, the right side stage will sound a bit brighter from reflected energy from the glass doors. More or less toe in can mitigate it to an extent, but that leaves the excess on axis energy to still beam at the listener which is dependant on the drivers and crossover design. A curtain over the glass doors would help this room quite a bit in presenting a balanced, symmetrical stage.

[Blake]

Placement is always room dependant and what works in one space most likely won't in another. Speakers don't radiate sound across their spectrum in a directive fashion but instead, variable in frequency and direction dependant on the baffle size and shape and the driver's behavior and size. Irregular boundary distance and material will also strongly influence what and when sound arrives at the listener. In the case of the poster's system, the right side stage will sound a bit brighter from reflected energy from the glass doors. More or less toe in can mitigate it to an extent, but that leaves the excess on axis energy to still beam at the listener which is dependant on the drivers and crossover design. A curtain over the glass doors would help this room quite a bit in presenting a balanced, symmetrical stage.

 

I agree with Mayhem's comments but want to point out one item concerning the bolded comment above. Many people have the view that glass is more reflective than other wall surfaces, but this is simply not true. For example, overall, glass has more absorption than drywall across the frequency spectrum:

 

[EuroChamp]

Hi,

 

want to clear up this hot discussion

 

The room is 8,1m wide, 4,9m long and 2,54m high. The stereo is on the left side of the room. The chassis are all more than 1m away from the next wall in all directions.

Distance left to right is 2,20m. The speakers do not perfectly "look" at me in my listening position, I still can see the inner side of the cabinet, but not much, when I move to one side maybe 10cm, I cannot see the inner side of the cabinet anymore. The speakers are 60cm away from the backwall. This was the best distance for a flat and smooth bass response. I do not feel that the door on the right has a dramatic impact, center staging is in the middle and very tall, I mean, precisely focused from midrange up to the treble.

 

Back to the angle of the speakers. In my opinion, the staging gets more diffuse with less angle, you could say, more wide. And, for me very important too, the very high frequencies are best when the large tweeter is not too much off axis. Other speaker react very different.

 

Tonality and frequency response is very important for me, music is classic and a little bit of "old" jazz, the legends. Some measurements comfirmed my impression of an exeptional flat frequency response, which in theory, the C1 really has.

 

This is my new house. I am here since 2013 and I was very sceptical about SQ when I saw the plan of the rooms. But I am very happy now, the bass in not boomy nowhere in the room.

 

[BANSwee]

Hi all together!

 

I never introduced myself. I think, it's a good way to do it here.

 

What you can not see on the pics, is the network infrastructure and storage in the basement and the iPad, where the photos are from.

 

I am really happy with my setup, I "always" enjoy it - even when I come home from an audio-show

Maybe a DSD capable DAC where great, at the moment I convert them to 24/176 on the fly.

 

Rest of the system is explained in my profile.

 

Bernhard

 

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VERY NICE!!!

 

I love DYN's

[jcfergus]

Update to post #531:

- I've replaced the M-Audio CO2 with a Peachtree Audio X1. This eliminates a wall wart power supply and uses the USB Audio rather than the TOSLINK optical output.

- I'm using the DACMagic in the living room connected to the D2 via TOSLINK optical cable.

- The problems with the AudioEngine D2 turned out to be a bad TOSLINK cable, not a wireless transmission problem. It now works flawlessly and behaves the way I'd hoped.

[miguelito]

http://goo.gl/4vJcNy

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http://goo.gl/4vJcNy

 

 

I have most of the IKEA stuff...

 

All I need now is the Kondo and the Minotti... and the lottery ticket!

 

 

Nice place Monsieur!

[tne]

I have brought back from Shanghai my Adam A7X and Concero HD system and they are now in Berkeley in my Fortress of Solitude. Much better to use headphone system in Shanghai for now and will also purchase some more modest active speakers for that system. In Berkeley I have added the Adam Sub10 Mk2, an LH LPS, and a Schiit SYS passive volume controller. A7X wired through the sub with 80Hz high pass setting. Also a LH Pulse Xfi is on order after which I will run balanced (Blue Jean cables here already). Mac Mini with Yosemite and CAD optimisations; wireless off; connected to Macbook Pro via ethernet (Blue Jean cables CAT 6) with screen sharing.

 

BTW the room, which also serves as my home office, is 22.8 x 11.7 x 7.8. I would like to try some DSP and room treatments, but this awaits the installation of the Pulse Xfi such that I can characterize the system in that state. Unfortunately I must settle for the one sub approach for space reasons.

 

 

BTW the TV is a Sony Bravia 55X850B 4K set, and the increased resolution really does make a difference. Unused Peachtree Decco2, Parasound preamp and amp are in left corner with excess cables.

[Jud]

Any quick (or more extensive if you like) impressions of the SYS?

[mayhem13]

I agree with Mayhem's comments but want to point out one item concerning the bolded comment above. Many people have the view that glass is more reflective than other wall surfaces, but this is simply not true. For example, overall, glass has more absorption than drywall across the frequency spectrum:

 

 

Excellent chart.......but it doesn't extend far enough to meet the needs of audiophiles! Lol

On a serious note, yes you are correct it he spectrum were cropped but look what happens as frequency increases? The harder surfaces become less absorbing so at 4000hz, 96% of the acoustic energy is reflected which was my point of sounding increasingly 'bright'.