System Pics 2017

Adam Zielinski posted:

NAP 500 back from service?

Adam,

close enough. Archive pic of the 500 arriving last year. It's a bit too young for a service so I am dithering whether to DR now or wait until the service and DR together makes sense. Shipping and turn around times are still quite long and the room will be very quiet without the NAP.

Folks say the DR thing is quite good. Others, that it is better still and can almost approach the NAP250 benchmark!

Dave

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It's not exactly broken, is it?

I was listening to my 1993, recently re-capped, Olive set (72/HiCap/250). Sublime is the word. 

Adam Zielinski posted:

[@mention:1566878603887149]

It's not exactly broken, is it?

I was listening to my 1993, recently re-capped, Olive set (72/HiCap/250). Sublime is the word. 

@Adam,

the only time any of my gear sounded broken, was when my CDS3, was actually broken.

Later that same afternoon.

For those who dislike the Chord DAC looks, the answer is... Black, black and more black

Dave, playing the new Dreadzone (Dread Times)

And a wider context (Lava lamps prepped for tonight)

Gary Shaw posted:

Dave, playing the new Dreadzone (Dread Times)

You dusted!

Dave J posted

You dusted!

 

One has staff, you know. They have special instructions and they've even bought a special hi-if dusting/tickling stick thingy.

Gary Shaw posted:

And a wider context (Lava lamps prepped for tonight)

 

Always liked those PMCs Nick and so pleased that Dave is making himself welcome .

Gary Shaw posted:

For those who dislike the Chord DAC looks, the answer is... Black, black and more black

I like all-black.  Nice to see  555CDP, too.  

Gary Shaw posted:

And a wider context (Lava lamps prepped for tonight)

 

Definitely needs a ladies touch to bring that back to reality.

MDS posted:

Gary Shaw posted:

For those who dislike the Chord DAC looks, the answer is... Black, black and more black

I like all-black.  Nice to see  555CDP, too.  

The electronics are quite close to speakers, don't you have issues with interference ?

Gary Shaw posted:

And a wider context (Lava lamps prepped for tonight)

 

Groovy man!

I too am a fan of the all-black kit/rack look.

Bert Schurink posted:

MDS posted:

Gary Shaw posted:

For those who dislike the Chord DAC looks, the answer is... Black, black and more black 

I like all-black.  Nice to see  555CDP, too.  

The electronics are quite close to speakers, don't you have issues with interference ?

Ideally, you're right. Much has changed (that's shorthand for EVERYTHING) in the twenty years we've been here, but the room dimensions have remained stubbornly the same. Also, I measured the speaker cable (Sarum) to the centimetre to trim costs and that pretty much froze everything!

This year we plan to move, and I have tentative plans to rearrange and enhance, possibly by going to two Fraims (replacing the Hutter) and positioning them between the speakers, cunningly reducing the required cable run and thus possibly bringing Chord Music into my budget.

What quietly terrifies me is the fact that this little lot has been put together by ear in this room's acoustics and that a new room might mean some re-thinking. Still, I tell myself that'll be "fun" and at least I'll make sure my audio friends in the area suffer with me. Cough.

Oh, and the lava lamps will be staying with me, though my heavy hints at increasing their number have met with familial glowers

Novichok-1977 posted:

Smallupgrade Neat motive 3 -> Neat Elite SX

What an elegant and neat system (pun intended), Novichok. What are the absorbing panels? 

Chag -  

Gary Shaw posted:

And a wider context (Lava lamps prepped for tonight)

 

Not enough lava lamps. DISAPPROVE.

Gary Shaw posted:

Oh, and the lava lamps will be <snip> familial glowers

Lava Lamp Glowers...nice one.  

Regards alan

(first post in this awesome thread, amazed and delighted at the spaces people have created for their systems and themselves)

S3 posted:

Very nice system S3 (Audi ?) - like the pooch too 

Yes! Van Morisson sent him to sleep...

S3 posted:

Nice looking system.  Are your speakers on granite slabs? 

Yes Stuart they are. Predominantly to make the speakers easier to move around but I also thought it tightened the bass somewhat.

pics reinstated; not sure what happened there...

Nice system,nice speakers, nice Norfolk terrier. Just had ours put down - terrible experience.