System Pics 2018

Ho Ho, toasty warm, actually I put my hand on them and they were cool to the touch. However on Sunday I had to reverse the speaker cable to move the amps from the left to right hand corner. The NACA5 runs in a conduit under the log burner and hearth, even having cooled overnight it was still warm to the touch.....but sounds great.

Gazza posted:

Give one a listen, the Nova preamp and DAC is better than most assume. This is my stop gap until Naim has a new streamer series.

I imagined this was your reasoning. I am sure it sounds great! 

Tony2011 posted:

mcjt posted

Hi! Is this a RB2000 on a LP12? 

RB1000 if he has not upgraded  last year’s setup.

Correct, Tony.  Still slumming it with the RB1000

Mr Tibbs

tonym posted:

Gazza posted:

A close up of the Fraim and Nova, Core, and NAP300dr.

Lookin' good Gazza. By the way, do your speakers not get hot so close to the fire? 

Keeps those voice coils nice and warm on cold days

Morning!

And a very happy new year to everybody - not least Tiny Tim, who has a hell of a time. Or Timy.

As you can see, not many changes (the cat, perhaps, is even fatter, should reality allow such a thing).

Oh, I see that my TV is now a portal to the glorious, sunlit uplands of Brexit. 

 

Mr.Tibbs posted:

Tony2011 posted:

mcjt posted

Hi! Is this a RB2000 on a LP12? 

RB1000 if he has not upgraded  last year’s setup.

Correct, Tony.  Still slumming it with the RB1000

 

Mr Tibbs

Excellent! and I just saw it on pinkfish. I want to do the same with a 2000.  

Donkeyhaute posted:

Morning!

And a very happy new year to everybody - not least Tiny Tim, who has a hell of a time. Or Timy.

As you can see, not many changes (the cat, perhaps, is even fatter, should reality allow such a thing).

Oh, I see that my TV is now a portal to the glorious, sunlit uplands of Brexit. 

At last a room that looks lived in! Ingenious speaker stands too.

Thank you Mr Yeti. I stole them from a pair of distracted milkmaids and then screwed things into them. The stands, you understand.

The milkmaids returned with a furious vengeance and beat me up. I'm now drinking soy through a straw. 

Just wonderful.........and I bet the difference between Your stands and the usual culprits is rather small........bravo

Gazza posted:

Just wonderful.........and I bet the difference between Your stands and the usual culprits is rather small........bravo

 

 

 

 

Thank you kindly, Gazza.

I deployed the Naim technique of having three different types of material absorb three different frequencies of vibration.

If you look closely, my stands are comprised of WOOD (sautéed in milkmaid rage), METAL, for dialling out MeatLoaf and INCOMPETENCE, which i find takes care of most chart music. 

Gazza posted:

I was a bit silly and should have put my system pics in the right thread. Anyway its a Core, Nova, NAP300DR, NACa5 threaded under fireplace with audio quest Forest ethernet, Audioquest Cinnamon optical for TV sound, and PMC 25.26. Cold miserable day, log fire burning, speakers do not get hot before anyone asks.

BTW, do your speakers get cold! LOL...

PS. Very nice System!

How do you like Naim's Reference Core?

I have had the Core since January 2017, I bought it because I do not like computers. It was a botched launch, old history, for some with classical music preferences some way to go...  have about a thousand cd,s ripped. Into my Nova I prefer a BNC to BNC digital feed rather than Ethernet, but I think that’s the Nova design, digital cuts out a stage into the DAC. My system is fully ethernet connected, WiFi for iPad communication.

Adam Zielinski posted:

And here are my 12000 or so tracks...

Adam, which TeddyPardo box is that and what is it powering? I’d be interested in what you think of it as I’m considering trying the Unitiserve ps.

Kevin

Adam Zielinski posted:

And here are my 12000 or so tracks...

Adam, I’d be interested in which  supply that is and what you think of it.

I’m awaiting delivery of a Unitiserve p.s. to try. 

Cheers, Kevin

Donkeyhaute posted:

Thank you Mr Yeti. I stole them from a pair of distracted milkmaids and then screwed things into them. The stands, you understand.

Those aren’t milking stools ... too many legs!  Milk maids need ones with three legs (stools that is!)

Mike1951 posted:

I've recently changed from my ProAc D15's, which simply don't work in my newer, smaller listening space, to some ATC SCM19's.

They've been bedding in for about ten days now and are just coming on song.

This morning, I played Sandy Denny singing "Fotheringay" - solo voice with acoustic guitar accompaniment - and although I'm very familiar with this track, for the first time, I could clearly hear Sandy's breath passing through her throat as she sang! This level of detail is a whole new world.

There's no loss of musicality either and the soundstaging is rock solid. I'm SO impressed.

So after purchasing this astonishing pair of speakers, here's my modest contribution to the thread:

 

I'd like to try SCM 19s with my NAP 500 amp system, be very different from SBLs but interesting.

The acoustic absorbing material is disgraceful to the extremous in the WAF department but i see the point of order. Are they up for painting in a colour? [other than grey]. Wouldn't mind getting some of that myself - if only to annoy my non music minded guests : )

yeti42 posted:

Donkeyhaute posted:

Morning!

And a very happy new year to everybody - not least Tiny Tim, who has a hell of a time. Or Timy.

As you can see, not many changes (the cat, perhaps, is even fatter, should reality allow such a thing).

Oh, I see that my TV is now a portal to the glorious, sunlit uplands of Brexit. 

At last a room that looks lived in! Ingenious speaker stands too.

I would be terrified of knocking something over.  Must be a very well behaved or just lazy cat.

kevin J Carden posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

And here are my 12000 or so tracks...

Adam, I’d be interested in which  supply that is and what you think of it.

I’m awaiting delivery of a Unitiserve p.s. to try. 

Cheers, Kevin

It’s a power supply from Israel, used to power my QNAP NAS. The objecive was to reduce noise - QNAP came with a regular, cheap-looking-power-plug-supply-thingy....

The bottom rack-mounted beast is a UPS - it will keep all the newtork components powered for up to 30 min, givin me time to shut the servers down (UnitiServe is also plugged into it, sitting outsied the rack).

Adam Zielinski posted:

kevin J Carden posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

And here are my 12000 or so tracks...

Adam, I’d be interested in which  supply that is and what you think of it.

I’m awaiting delivery of a Unitiserve p.s. to try. 

Cheers, Kevin

It’s a power supply from Israel, used to power my QNAP NAS. The objecive was to reduce noise - QNAP came with a regular, cheap-looking-power-plug-supply-thingy....

The bottom rack-mounted beast is a UPS - it will keep all the newtork components powered for up to 30 min, givin me time to shut the servers down (UnitiServe is also plugged into it, sitting outsied the rack).

Thanks Adam, have you found the it makes a worthwhile difference compared to the stock supply? What kind of improvements do you hear? As I say, I have a one for the UnitiServe winging its way to me from Israel right now, so I’ll know for myself soon enough, but just curious to know what you think of yours. Did you try any other make of supplies before ?

I would be terrified of knocking something over.  Must be a very well behaved or just lazy cat.

 

I'd be grateful, TobyJug, if, in future, you were to refrain from accusing my cat of being well-behaved. 

Gazza posted:

I was a bit silly and should have put my system pics in the right thread. Anyway its a Core, Nova, NAP300DR, NACa5 threaded under fireplace with audio quest Forest ethernet, Audioquest Cinnamon optical for TV sound, and PMC 25.26. Cold miserable day, log fire burning, speakers do not get hot before anyone asks.

Years ago, my dad, thinking he was being helpful, stacked some wood next to a firebox like that. It caught fire. Luckily, I was home.

R-LANE posted:

2018 sound system: Vitus/Naim PL/Aurender/Eclipse TD/TQ Silver Diamond. Box count reduced from six to two.

Nice pic - Is that a Vitus R100 integrated amp?  I wonder what kind of Naim stack it replaced and how you would compare the sound?  

winkyincanada posted:

Gazza posted:

I was a bit silly and should have put my system pics in the right thread. Anyway its a Core, Nova, NAP300DR, NACa5 threaded under fireplace with audio quest Forest ethernet, Audioquest Cinnamon optical for TV sound, and PMC 25.26. Cold miserable day, log fire burning, speakers do not get hot before anyone asks.

Years ago, my dad, thinking he was being helpful, stacked some wood next to a firebox like that. It caught fire. Luckily, I was home.

We are home all the time, so it is not unattended or our primary energy source. I take your input, we bring in wood that is dry, internally, but is damp externally. We always make sure it has died down before we go to bed. We have 2 smoke detector systems, battery and mains. But it is a good point. A professional installation is necessary and this should include the ventilation required…

Gazza posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Gazza posted:

I was a bit silly and should have put my system pics in the right thread. Anyway its a Core, Nova, NAP300DR, NACa5 threaded under fireplace with audio quest Forest ethernet, Audioquest Cinnamon optical for TV sound, and PMC 25.26. Cold miserable day, log fire burning, speakers do not get hot before anyone asks.

Years ago, my dad, thinking he was being helpful, stacked some wood next to a firebox like that. It caught fire. Luckily, I was home.

We are home all the time, so it is not unattended or our primary energy source. I take your input, we bring in wood that is dry, internally, but is damp externally. We always make sure it has died down before we go to bed. We have 2 smoke detector systems, battery and mains. But it is a good point. A professional installation is necessary and this should include the ventilation required…

I keep logs stacked in an almost identical way, and I've had a couple of near misses where they started to smoulder!

We have had this Clearview 650 logburner for 15 years with a stainless chimney. Though your point is well taken, we should always be vigilant.