Post photos of your systems/rooms here! (Part 15)

Humble?

 

Did you build the Audio Note Kit amps?

 

Love seeing these rooms full wall to wall of vinyl and CD's. Great music rooms!

 

I see you have the oppo 105 with the hard drive plugged in through the front USB ports.

There is a difference between going via laptop through the asynchronous USB port on the back right?

I have a 105D as well and I'm just wondering if it makes a huge difference between going via the front or back ports.

 

Very nice, but "Humble" it ain't!!! Congrats!

 

I could live in that room.

 

I've a buddy here in my home town with those same speakers....Very Nice!

 

No kidding.

 

I'm there right now.

 

No. They built them for me. Digital Pete did an amazing job.

 

I'm using the front port for my "movies" hard drive.

 

Here is my system....
I'm pretty happy with it right now.... I hope to stay strong and resist the urge to make upgrades for the next few years.

 

Just moved in with my girlfriend! My stereo, her TV.

 

Different. I like it!

 

Thanks! You guys are too kind. Almost didn't post the pic.

 

Beautiful. Dig it

 

I had same situation years ago
My stereo her tv
Now we live together and we have our stereo and my stereo

 

I Love blue JBLs

 

Thank you,
It's been ever evolving, and like most, I tinker around w/ upgrades. Thanks to all who liked the post.

 

Just bought a new amp, A Yamaha A-S3000. Sold my 18 year old Musical Fidelity A300, A3 CD and A3 Tuner - hope I made the right decision. I want to ge the Yamaha CD 3000 also - until I have the funds, i'm using my old Sony XA-50 ES
The amp isn't an huge improvement right now, but it only played a few hours, so I sure hope it get's better with milage ...

 

Some updated shots of my stereo:-

SM Pro (now owned by JBL) MPatch V2 passive preamp





The rear panel gives me up to three inputs - one line and two auxiliary, one for RCA phono (in which are the Chord Chorus interconnects you can see) and a 3.5 input that lets me hook up the Chromecast Audio from time to time.








The Onkyo TX-NR818 now used as a preamp and mainly for my TV and Blu-ray player at that. Looking to move this on in time and simplify the system. A great amp though and probably the height of the Onkyo mid-range AV amps. From the 828 on, they pulled their punches on the power supply I think, so the newer model was slightly the lesser. Of course, they're now plugging Dolby Atmos and have been for the last year or so and next I guess we might see MQA appearing (Onkyo are one of the first to include it on some of their portable DAPs), though the jury's out on the benevolent aspects of the format, so equally, it might not.

To the right is a 4TB MyBook External HardDrive which is hooked up to the back of the Cambridge.








...and the aforesaid Cambridge, here partnered with an AVI Lab Series CD player as a transport. The sound quality is better with the offboard transport, with greater clarity. Hooked up directly to the Onkyo via HDMI, but for music, it goes out to the passive preamp via the Chord Chorus RCAs shown above.

An occasionally used 3rd gen Apple TV sits off to the right, and a hint of a Monster HTS 1000 power block, and a melange of wires! One day I'll tidy them up, etc, etc...






And here's one of the AE22 actives. I love the design that Acoustic Energy came up with here, though James Luce, the company's Brand Manager is less than bowled over by them, or so he says! You can't quite see them clearly, but the little silver patch to the left also has a simple EQ display for the high, mid and low frequency adjustments on the back, also the sensitivity can be tweaked slightly too. Handy at times, though I have these set to flat usually. They give you a visual cue as to the settings - Cut, Flat or Lift for the HF and MF, and Cut Flat Extend for the LF. Sensitivity is either Flat or +/-3db.

Off to the right is a 5th Gen 64GB iPod Touch, which these days is more for portable listening on the move, but sometimes streams lossless to the ATV on the rack. The Sony TV is a 40", bought just before Christmas last year - the KDL40-705C. Great set.







These two speakers alone have been the biggest single improvement. As Andrew Jones mentions in the Elac thread I posted elsewhere on the Hardware forum, you can get much higher performance gains by tailoring the amp to the driver, for less cost than you do with passives. You lose some flexibility (or choice more accurately, if you will) but the benefits - at least as I've found - significantly outweigh the few negatives. And I'm clearly going to enthuse more about this approach to great audio. I first some Genelec speakers about ten years ago and was impressed by them then. Those were about £3,000 a pair. The now discontinued AEs below were about £900 and I got them new for substantially less last August direct from the manufacturer and they delight and astound me daily almost a year on now.

The equipment rack is an unbranded thing, but with four shelves, in a nice real wood finish. Bought it in Richer Sounds when they were offloading it cheap (no idea how much it cost originally, but I snagged it for about £40!).

And that's my stereo - it sits in a regular lounge, in a family home and so there's little in the way of the fripperies of audiophilia beyond this (no bass traps, etc, though I'm sure my other half would say that there's probably quite enough as it is!). I love it, but most of all, I love the music that comes out of it (or movies); it's a real pleasure to sit and while away the hours on a summer's evening, looking out to the sea, having a beer and listening to some tracks. Life is for the living.

 

Man, the new high end Yamaha components look so badass!!

 

My opinion is that ES50 sound better than new yamaha CD.
I try both.
ES 50 is one of my favourite transports

 

Are you sure?!? My wife would be very happy with that!