I would be pestering pops to make more cabinets, I would offer to help or perhaps do some painting for him.
We designed built the frame together, and worked together to prototype the drawers. When I got busy with work he couldn’t stand leaving it sitting so he ended up finishing it. I love working on projects him believe me I’d rather have been doing that than chasing basis points at my job
Thanks, I was driving the speakers with a tube (Rogue) and SS (Simaudio) amp, each with seemingly enough power, but the current (no pun intended) situation is much better.
Brilliant combination (RGBARGEE has the H390, mine is H190). Those Dynaudio Contour 30s are absolutely the dog's b@ll@cks and the Hegel amplification seems to bring out the very best in them.
Well done not only does it look better it makes more sense. It's hard to listen to 3 speakers at once! I bet the Hegel makes those Contours sing!
The CXC is a nice transport isn't it? I like the Node2i, even though the software is not perfect, good but not perfect.
Works very well. I listen around 70dB most of the time and have had the Hegel about a month. I have cranked it a couple of times and it is very pleasing.
Looks like a very nice 'vintage' system with a modern (Clearaudio) TT? Marantz receiver? Speakers? Maybe not (or maybe it is) a 'precise soundstaging/imaging' type of system but probably provides a very nice satisfying sound in the room. My parents' dear friends in the 60s-70s had a Scott receiver (or integrated amp?), Garrard TT, Shure? cart, possibly a R2R (I was very young but the system made an impression on me). The speakers were ??? mounted high on one wall of their living area with a center channel (standard way of hooking things up in those days for high end audio). I recall it sounding very good and looked forward to visiting them. Going back to my Dad's all in one with plastic speakers eventually made me enter the audiophile world using my first credit card (around 1977) ... bought a decent $400 Pioneer starter system and rocked out in my room for many years thereafter, brought the system out to CA with me in 1980, finally started to 'upgrade' things around 1984 when I got a better paying job.
That is an absolutely gorgeous space and setup. How do you like the Butcher Block rack? I'm considering purchasing one of their double-wide models.