System Pics 2017

John Willmott posted:

Hanner posted:

 

Hanner:  What a stunning system and layout ,, the symmetry is wonderful ... Excellent ..

Very nice.  That would make the living room in my house!

Hungryhalibut posted:

Just you wait till it's full of dead flies once summer arrives...

We have a lamp like this in the living room. Once in a while we remove the elastic jersey cover, dispose of the myriad of dead little creatures (we found flies, fleas, a single dead wasp with a tiny flyer propagandizing G.W. Bush still held in the paws, a few minuscule aliens who had died trying to demonstrate a theory according which the universe is a concave sphere, not knowing that such a theory has already been advanced and abandoned by Hitler's panels of experts, a little sand left from the sandman who erroneously thought someone was sleeping inside it like in a suspended tent, the locking ring from a PREH DIN 5 pin to 5 pin Naim SNAIC some previous tenant had cast off in a rage not hearing any difference between locking and unlocking and having lost the tiny screw that kept the ring in place, simple dust, fairy dust, the invisible one that slowly deposits itself on our listening habits and forms the basis for our preconceptions and Upgrade Itch, plus a still living old bedbug, grey and slow beyond credibility who, upon been asked about its name and presence there, answered it was living there since always, was simply called DB by everyone and spent its time moving back and forth a few mm per year, verifying the effect this did on the perceived sound through the cloth), wash it and place it again on its grid.

Simple!

Max

rsch posted 

We also fitted this new ceiling lamp in the 500 room (Ariette by Flos) not excatly my cup of tea but it might help with room acoustics being like a big canvas

 

Regards

Roberto

Hi Roberto & Max,

the Ariette could be the lamp we have been looking for. Both my wife and I like the way it looks in your photo and on the Flos website. And I think we can handle the side effects mentioned . Which bulbs do you use and how bright is it? Our living room is ca. 4,5 by 6 m.

Max_B posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

Just you wait till it's full of dead flies once summer arrives...

We have a lamp like this in the living room. Once in a while we remove the elastic jersey cover, dispose of the myriad of dead little creatures (we found flies, fleas, a single dead wasp with a tiny flyer propagandizing G.W. Bush still held in the paws, a few minuscule aliens who had died trying to demonstrate a theory according which the universe is a concave sphere, not knowing that such a theory has already been advanced and abandoned by Hitler's panels of experts, a little sand left from the sandman who erroneously thought someone was sleeping inside it like in a suspended tent, the locking ring from a PREH DIN 5 pin to 5 pin Naim SNAIC some previous tenant had cast off in a rage not hearing any difference between locking and unlocking and having lost the tiny screw that kept the ring in place, simple dust, fairy dust, the invisible one that slowly deposits itself on our listening habits and forms the basis for our preconceptions and Upgrade Itch, plus a still living old bedbug, grey and slow beyond credibility who, upon been asked about its name and presence there, answered it was living there since always, was simply called DB by everyone and spent its time moving back and forth a few mm per year, verifying the effect this did on the perceived sound through the cloth), wash it and place it again on its grid.

Simple!

Max

I can't get around the word 'Microkosmos' ...

Ardbeg10y posted

 

I can't get around the word 'Microkosmos' ...

I know a song about that, strangely enough - https://open.spotify.com/track...RrYZA1UypzKrk8TC9j25

Warning: not exactly typical Naim forum music.

Mulberry posted:

rsch posted 

We also fitted this new ceiling lamp in the 500 room (Ariette by Flos) not excatly my cup of tea but it might help with room acoustics being like a big canvas

 

Regards

Roberto

Hi Roberto & Max,

the Ariette could be the lamp we have been looking for. Both my wife and I like the way it looks in your photo and on the Flos website. And I think we can handle the side effects mentioned . Which bulbs do you use and how bright is it? Our living room is ca. 4,5 by 6 m.

Hi Mulberry,

Actually i'm not really a fan of ceiling lamps, i prefer suspensions, before this one i had Ingo Maurer Savoie, which i liked very much (like many other Maurer's models, i also have a Grasl table lamp  bought in '87) Unfortunately the fool who fitted it when i moved here in 2010 damaged the mechanism and repair was no longer possible. This one is the bigger version of Ariette and it's quite growing on me. it can be fitted with 4 x halogen bulbs up to 40W.

We also just fitted Foscarini Big Bang in the kitchen which you could also consider for your living

@ Max, As you know, being a dedicated room it's pretty much closed all the time, so dust and insects have little opportunity to get in, except the black cat who love to sleep on the sofa

Regards

Roberto

 

rsch posted 

 

 

 

Still think it's like looking up at a big bum sitting on a square toilet seat.

Thanks for that TJ.  

I recently got a little oak table made for my nas, to replace a rather ropey MDF contraption I made. I can't say it's affected the sound, but it looks a lot nicer in the corner of the dining room.

Proper job HH,  nice to see traditional craft skills in real wood.      

Needed to free up some shelf space for the Core and 300dr had some spare Quadraspire uprights etc so made this little rack up for the Synology,EE Hub and Back Up Drive.

rsch posted:

Hi Mulberry,

Actually i'm not really a fan of ceiling lamps, i prefer suspensions, before this one i had Ingo Maurer Savoie, which i liked very much (like many other Maurer's models, i also have a Grasl table lamp  bought in '87) Unfortunately the fool who fitted it when i moved here in 2010 damaged the mechanism and repair was no longer possible. This one is the bigger version of Ariette and it's quite growing on me. it can be fitted with 4 x halogen bulbs up to 40W.

We also just fitted Foscarini Big Bang in the kitchen which you could also consider for your living 

@ Max, As you know, being a dedicated room it's pretty much closed all the time, so dust and insects have little opportunity to get in, except the black cat who love to sleep on the sofa

Regards

Roberto

Hi Roberto,

mille grazie for your reply and the additional photos. The Arriete has the advantage of being pretty flat, as we need to walk underneath the lamp, which rules out suspension lamps. We already have a couple of WANs in the hallway, so Flos is a known quantity. Most of our lamps are from Luceplan (suspension C-Spots, a Costanzina and some whose names I forgot). a single small Totem from Foscarini is also present.

Hungryhalibut posted:

I recently got a little oak table made for my nas, to replace a rather ropey MDF contraption I made. I can't say it's affected the sound, but it looks a lot nicer in the corner of the dining room.

Is the APC a backup power supply?

Skip posted:

elkman70 posted:

552DR and full SL loom added this year, plus a load of music.

This is way cool looking.  I noted the Fraim glass under the 552DR in a novel solution.  I have to believe this would sound much better on a Fraim.   Perhaps you have rejected that idea.  I love my IsoBlue but my Fraim wins.

Fraim seems like a lot of money compared to Isoblue and the phaf of sorting out a demo puts me off. I am happy with the Isoblue. 

Monkadill posted:

Is the APC a backup power supply? 

It sure is,  it protects NAS HDD damage that can be caused by power failures when its read/writing,  its probably not so important when NAS is idle or hibernating.    Added advantage is I have my phone & broadband connected to my APC & that gives me plenty of time to close any work in progress on laptop/PC's & to finish phone calls with time to spare if & when I get a power failure.  

TOBYJUG posted:

 

rsch posted 

 

 

 

Still think it's like looking up at a big bum sitting on a square toilet seat.

You can exercise your fantasy on my lamp too, TJ:

But for some reason I can already imagine the gender, if not the action...

You got quite dirty mind guys 

Regards

Roberto

Anyone got any non lamp related pictures (possibly Hi-Fi system related given the thread title) they want to share...

OK, thanks Max...

I think this is a good time to get back on thread.  So...

Here's the newest arrival at Dane manor.  Very easy to use, very quiet, even with a 2TB HD drive installed, and already sounding very, very good through s/pdif into the DAC.

Richard Dane posted:

OK, thanks Max...

I think this is a good time to get back on thread.  So...

Here's the newest arrival at Dane manor.  Very easy to use, very quiet, even with a 2TB HD drive installed, and already sounding very, very good through s/pdif into the DAC.

Richard, is there an option to turn off the Naim logo light?

Stevee_S posted:

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Richard, is there an option to turn off the Naim logo light?

Didn't take long to get back to lamps.

Steve, apart from the standby power switch, which does turn off the logo when put into standby, I'm not sure.  I will investigate in the app setup menu when I'm next in the music room.

I can't help noticing a certain stiffness mounting. Ok, this is a system pics thread, but it's also about listening rooms, and Roberto quoted his lamp as an addendum to acoustics besides aesthetics. I added my pic only after the elegant remark by TJ. It doesn't seem to me that the subject of lamps has hijacked the thread for pages. Living spaces are commented frequently.

But ok, let's go back to much more sensible, informative and useful topics like 500 series systems placed 2 mt high in a wardrobe or pics of socks.

Just for you Massimo; a nice new pair of wool socks. And as it's a bit gloomy today I've turned on the lights. They are made by Original BTC, with porcelain shades. And if you look in the mirror, you'll see what they look like when they are not switched on. Unfortunately I cannot delight you with a 500 series two metres off the floor, but I can show you a glimpse of three boring boxes on my manky old Quadraspire. 

Richard Dane posted:

Steve, apart from the standby power switch, which does turn off the logo when put into standby, I'm not sure.  I will investigate in the app setup menu when I'm next in the music room.

Thanks Richard.