System Pics 2017

Michael posted:

I am using 9 meter Super Lumina cables and the carpet fitters cut a channel in the underlay for the cables to run across the door and all the way back to the kit. It makes for domestic harmony and looks very neat. 

Nicely done. Very neat indeed. 

Playing around with the system (speaker) placement yesterday. When we moved into this house, roughly a century ago, there was only one place where the SBLs would fit. When those speakers morphed into the FMUs it seemed natural to plonk them in the same place.

The opportunities to meet other forum members (and listen to systems that I can only ever dream of) and hearing their sage advice started cogs to whir (very very slowly, though) and made us (MandI) start to query whether we should fire the FMUs down the length of the room rather than across. Aesthetically it isn't great; we have had to lose a chair from the room and watching television is less convenient (but in a world of SCD, GBBO etc this isn't a great loss).

What we do have is more room for a possible experiment with Fraim.

I just wish aural memory was not so very fickle. It is hard to put my/our finger on whether the sound has changed. My sense is one of improved clarity; perhaps that is just a function of getting a few feet further from the speakers.

Always good to try a free experiment Nick and I am sure your system would benefit from sitting on Fraim. Keep us posted!

Beautiful set Michael. Så lovely NBL as well. I also never had the pleasure to listen to one. 

Michael posted:

DRMARK I am using 9 meter Super Lumina cables and the carpet fitters cut a channel in the underlay for the cables to run across the door and all the way back to the kit. It makes for domestic harmony and looks very neat. 

18 meters of Super Lumina ???

Michael posted:

Always good to try a free experiment Nick and I am sure your system would benefit from sitting on Fraim. Keep us posted!

A&A already waiting in the wings.

 

Nick from Suffolk posted:

 

   

Very nice! i sold so many Micro Be back in the day. I should have grabbed a pair for myself!

Bob the Builder posted:

Michael posted:

DRMARK I am using 9 meter Super Lumina cables and the carpet fitters cut a channel in the underlay for the cables to run across the door and all the way back to the kit. It makes for domestic harmony and looks very neat. 

18 meters of Super Lumina ???

Took my breath away as well!

Not sure I could afford carpets and 18 m of Super Lumina - so wouldn't be an issue!

Bob the Builder posted:

Michael posted:

DRMARK I am using 9 meter Super Lumina cables and the carpet fitters cut a channel in the underlay for the cables to run across the door and all the way back to the kit. It makes for domestic harmony and looks very neat. 

18 meters of Super Lumina ???

A pair of 9 meter cables. 

Looking good, Nick - and apparently sounding so. The Signals show always gets the juices flowing.

John. 

Beautiful HH...

Hungryhalibut posted:

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Lovely room, and the system looks great. The socks should have been colour co-ordinated to match those lovely vases for best effect.

Looks great & bet it sounds great.

Enjoy !

DBLs sat on my DIY "Mana"-type platforms. These work remarkably well - the three sets of spikes mean the speakers rock about if you push them, so a bit counter-intuitive. All to do with isolation.

tonym posted:

 

DBLs sat on my DIY "Mana"-type platforms. These work remarkably well - the three sets of spikes mean the speakers rock about if you push them, so a bit counter-intuitive. All to do with isolation.

Well that is the 'Daddy' system right there and in a game of 'System' Top Trumps that is going to be hard to beat.

Hungryhalibut posted:

 

What is on top, now?

Nick

NickSeattle posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

 

What is on top, now?

Nick

Well of course they are coming from different perspectives Tony's is obviously SQ before anything else and HH is coming from a more minimal aspect.

Tony's seems to an analogue first system and HH's is a more digitally based system and so of course it is down to personal preference and of course the size of your wallet.  If I had the choice and room size and money allowed I would go for Tony's but in it's price point and room size and coming from a more minimalist perspective I would imagine HH's is hard to beat.

Nick probably meant what’s on top of the rack (the 272) but you sum things up very nicely. I bet Tony’s setup sounds fantastic, but all those boxes! And all that dusting.... It’s great to have so many choices. 

Strange, the box on the top shelf looks thinner than the 272. Must be the light or something.

Hungryhalibut posted:

Nick probably meant what’s on top of the rack (the 272) but you sum things up very nicely. I bet Tony’s setup sounds fantastic, but all those boxes! And all that dusting.... It’s great to have so many choices. 

Quite right re reading Nick's post and yes it is great to have so many choices. In context these are all fantastic sounding systems.

Hungryhalibut posted:

Nick probably meant what’s on top of the rack (the 272) but you sum things up very nicely. I bet Tony’s setup sounds fantastic, but all those boxes! And all that dusting.... It’s great to have so many choices. 

Me being me (again), with Nigel’s system, I would be tempted to benchmark the streamer on-board the 272 against a CD5XS and/or CDX2.2, both by digital and analog.

But, I am a tireless troubleshooter.

Nick

Great pic HH! What's really new in the room besides the socks?

Chag -

NickSeattle posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

Nick probably meant what’s on top of the rack (the 272) but you sum things up very nicely. I bet Tony’s setup sounds fantastic, but all those boxes! And all that dusting.... It’s great to have so many choices. 

Me being me (again), with Nigel’s system, I would be tempted to benchmark the streamer on-board the 272 against a CD5XS and/or CDX2.2, both by digital and analog.

But, I am a tireless troubleshooter.

Nick

Why would I do that? It would be totally pointless.