Humble office system

I’m nowhere near your main system but not far from your office system with my secondary system. That said it’s nowhere close to my main system. I’m really digging if as of late. The addition of the matching stands to my speakers has surprisingly taken it to another level. Hope you find your happy place with your main system. Maybe there is too much money put in if to really enjoy it. More is not always better. 

MuSo is nice for an office.

Our son's UntitQute2b with Blumenstein Audio has worked well in a nice room but cheap enough for an office.

These multi-box systems can frustrate and who needs it for an office?   The simple units work plenty well.

Aaaaaaah I remember the days when to me a Technics 1210 >>Nad c370 >> Pioneer speakers was a high end system.

The 707 now will leave you an upgrade to the 808 to contemplate. You've had the Super 20 far too long.

As far as your office system, money spent prejudices expectations. You can get transported too far into the music, especially when recording or mastering is shabby. A less exposing system can help equalize source, system or room flaws.

I think the more you spend, the more you analyse rather than listen, that is either pleasure hearing more, justifying the upgrade and struggling to hear a discernable difference or upgraditis whereby you constantly want more.

I barely recall my first separates system, some creek amp, marantz 63 and tdl rtl 2, was simply awesome.

Obsydian posted:

I think the more you spend, the more you analyse rather than listen...

 

I think that is very apparent on the ND555 impressions thread, but that's probably a case of justifying what has been spent.

I still recall the musical enjoyment I found in a simple LP12/Basik/K-9, Nait, Rogers LS7 system.

Sounds like we are heading for a round of nostalgia driven.. when I was a boy I had a ...( Insert any make / model ) and it sounded fantastic...and I'm still striving to reproduce it ..( nostalgia isnt what it used to be )

Sometimes I think how nice it must be to have a sound system at work, and be able to have music playing at least some of the time when in the office. However, I don’t like music playing faintly in the background, while if it is a half decent system and playing loud enough to appreciate, then if I play anything I like (which would be all I’d play), there would be a risk of my attention drifting to the music instead of work. There could also be an issue of staff wanting to have music systems in areas they work, and what then if several people in one area disagreeing on music to play, etc. (I well remember one place I worked a few decades ago, where they had a radio in the main lab area: I hated it because it was always on Radio 1, and I couldn’t stand the vast majority of the music. In the end it caused such ructions that it was banned - the sound of laboratory activity was much nicer!)

Innocent Bystander posted:

Sometimes I think how nice it must be to have a sound system at work, and be able to have music playing at least some of the time when in the office.

You can - headphones and a nice music player.

I cannot possibly work with music playing.  If music is playing I cannot help but give it so much of my attention that I cannot concentrate on anything else.  White noise is ok . . . in fact helpful sometimes. But I have never been able to work, do homework, etc., while music is playing.

Bart posted:

I cannot possibly work with music playing.  If music is playing I cannot help but give it so much of my attention that I cannot concentrate on anything else.  White noise is ok . . . in fact helpful sometimes. But I have never been able to work, do homework, etc., while music is playing.

I have the same problem, but found that certain music and work go well together. Mozart suits the more complex work well. If I need to do relatively simple work, I choose more complex music.

And then there is the noise on the customers' floor or at home which can be more disturbing than any kind of music, in such cases I block anything by loud organmusic. O yeah!

UQ1 with Kef Ls50’s (wall mounted) for the office and it’s fabulous. Fed by Roon via Sonore Bridge software from a microRendu in the upstairs system. It always surprises me just how good the UQ can be. 

Bart posted:

I cannot possibly work with music playing.  If music is playing I cannot help but give it so much of my attention that I cannot concentrate on anything else.  White noise is ok . . . in fact helpful sometimes. But I have never been able to work, do homework, etc., while music is playing.

When I was at school it worked very well playing music at the same time as I was supposed to be working: I sat in the second living room, which was mostly used as my listening room, music on loud, telling my parents I was hard at work revising. It worked - they believed me! And although the books were in front of me I did no revision for any exam! 

Music just makes me ignore everything else.

I tried an exercise ball at my desk. Lasted all of about five minutes until I put on Femi Kuti and could no longer read the screen because I was bouncing up and down so much! Back to the chair...

My office system is the Sony NW-WM1Z with the Shure SE846 and it gives me a lot of enjoyment.

Back to MM's original premise, or at least one of them.  My "little" Qute2 system absolutely is highly ENJOYABLE.

My office system is very humble: a used entry level DAC preamp headphone amp from Audio GD I got for 100€ from a friend, a small Dynavox  Tube integrated (love the tubes glow at night) and second hand System Audio speakers . Up to recently fed by my laptop but now from a SOtM SMS 200 (this is the most expensive part of the system.

Absolutely enjoyable! 

Working with music is preferable  for me, for a strange reason I can concentrate better and have more patience to do work that requires deep analysis that way 

I bought an ex-demo SuperUniti for my office and it's playing all day. Having a big volume control knob on the front is very good as it's so quick and easy to turn down the volume if the phone rings.

When I'm really concentrating it could be anything just as well, but if I'm not so busy, then leaning my chair back and listening to the music is a key part of relaxing and the SuperUniti is good enough to make that a real pleasure.

best

David

My office system is an audio quest dragonfly red. Amazing musicality

Dragonfly red is my mobile office system :-)

james n posted:

Innocent Bystander posted:

Sometimes I think how nice it must be to have a sound system at work, and be able to have music playing at least some of the time when in the office.

You can - headphones and a nice music player.

Not feasible with need to respond to phone and staff, and not acceptable as my staff are banned from wearing headphones or earbuds while they work for safety reasons.

When the BBC ran their Radio 3 FLAC trial last year, I used a Dragonfly Red to give me an analogue feed to go into my SuperUniti and it was breathtakingly good. Far better than FM via the Superuniti's built in FM tuner.

best

David

analogmusic posted:

My office system is an audio quest dragonfly red. Amazing musicality

DrPo posted:

Dragonfly red is my mobile office system :-)

System?

MangoMonkey posted:

Reading through some ND555 posts. And Naim upgrade paths. 

Running a NAD D3020 fed by work PC's noisy usb out + spotify into Totem Kin Minis.

The system is good enough to take me into the zone - where I can work for hours. 

And surprisingly, no niggles about what could be made better, upgrades etc.

And at home, contemplating the next upgrade - from ND555/552/500/Kudos Super 20s to some endgame speakers.

If only I can get as much pleasure from that big system from this modest sub 1K system. 

Ha ha just seen this. In my home office I’m running a Sony CD player cheap and cheerful into my 1985 NAD 3020. QED speaker cable with Heybrook HB1 speakers, the bass drivers have been resealed with Wickes bathroom sealer.

Just missing a Dual 505 and I’d be back in mid-80’s budget hi-fi heaven. 

At least there’s no firmware updates.

My own office system has recently seen a bit of a kit shuffle. The Oppo BDP93 and Naim Unitiqute 2 are still in residence, but the Kans have recently been removed for some refurbishment (the rather shabby black ash cabinets were beginning to grate) and in their place I have moved in my Epos ES-14s on their original stands.  I'd almost forgotten what great speakers are the ES-14s, and the UQ2 seems to be having no great difficulty in driving them in the small space.