Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

totally awesome.

i guess the Tannoys will be a bit further apart in their final positions?

it's great when average recordings actually sound better, not worse.

So good. Interested to hear where you end up with the speakers placed. Mine (stirlings) are quite wide apart and really angled in, the axis crossing just infront of my head.

Probably one in each corner of the room, which will be about 5m apart and angled inward slightly.

We've some other furniture to get first

why would you put them in the corner of the room? goes against all the known acoustic issues with room/speaker placement.

They're front-vented, so whilst I wouldn't consider it with the older speakers I had which were rear-vented - it may well work with these.

I will at least try it before ruling it out.

Why? Because right now they're probably too close together. And midway to the wall from where they are will just make 4 cupboards useless. If they do work in the corners then it will be neat as all cupboard will be accessible and the sound stage will be nice and wide.

Likely the best acoustic position will be a few feet in front of the cupboards and a little bit wider than they are now, toed in to form a triangle with the listening position.

Usually takes up too much of the room to have speakers properly positioned.

Love your room, the ceiling and fireplace really nice and i like the flooring too

Needs a rug to bring it together /hifi joke

Better placement of the speakers, and now they both have the IsoAcoustic GAIA III isolation feet (prevents vibrations coming back up into the speaker, but also prevents my entire floor resonating bass from the speaker and bugging the downstairs neighbour).

Still to receive a hi-fi stand, which will move the amp out of the fireplace and to a home out of view on the left. Will get some new power cable and cut it to length once I've put the amp in it's final place... so ignore the cable mess, that will be tidied up in time.

They do sound better in the new position, and the sound stage is a lot bigger for it. Some of the soft furnishings have re-entered the room, as have some of the objects... so the whole thing is sounding really sweet already.

I am still enjoying them so much that when I get a lunch break... I put music on and sit and listen. When I have an evening to myself, it's the music that is on and not the TV.

I listen to music constantly, this all cost a lot but is going to amortise really well... it's likely to turn out to be the cheapest entertainment spend I've ever made once amortisation is accounted for.

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That’s some sweet amortisation

you know you're down bad when you're talking about the amortisation ; )

looks class - am not jealous at all

have a play with the toe-in, dk. they can beam a bit it you are on axis. my chevs seemed to be better crossing in front of me, but the eatons were better out a bit

you know you're down bad when you're talking about the amortisation ; )

It's the equivalent of "this wristwatch only costs me 70p to look at it if I look at it 10 times a day for the rest of my life... so that feels like a bargain!".

The whole system is probably £6k, which isn't a wild amount... but it's more than I was planning to spend. Retail new, it would've cost £8.5k... and whilst this is all new I got deals. It's actually a bargain, but yeah... it still cost quite a bit.

Always a good sign when the speakers are about the same size as any screen in a room.

ive got some of these here on a little trial at the moment. one has started playing up.
PXL_20220320_191411544 by Richard Howard, on Flickr

ESL’s have a poke around with a screwdriver while they are on and see what happens....

Another forum user spotted my hifi in the background of another post and suggested I post some pics of it,
My old man was a lifelong audiophile nut, dragged me all over the country to hifi shows and shops as a kid, he was disabled so couldn't carry the boxes of stuff he bought,
We were at a hifi show in Harrogate, I must've been 11-12 at the time, was almost at the end of the day, he was busy listening to something and I wandered into the Naim room,
The guy from Naim treat me just like any other moneyed customer and gave me a full demo of their show rig, played Bomb The Bass full blast for me several times, and it left a lasting memory I guess,

After the old man passed away he left me his collection of ECM records so I set about building a little rig he'd approve of,
I'm not much of an audiophile so went for form over function, I just bought what I found the prettiest,

NAC 72-NAP 140-HiCAP serviced at Classe-A and upgraded by Avondale just up the road from me,
Rega P8 with Apheta thingy,
Cyrus XT Sig Cd Player - Chord Shawline to DAC
Chord Qutest DAC - Chord Indigo to NAC72
Bluesound Steamer running Tidal Premium - Wireworld glass lead to DAC
PMC speakers

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slack saddle

(beautiful setup - I read the other thread and hoped you'd post it up but understand why you might not. thanks for posting.)

lovely set-up.
i sold my 90/92 for a unitQute 2 for the ease of streaming but wonder if that was a backward step and what i really want is a recapped 72/140 that will likely see me out.

Lovely set up, I'm really feeling Jon Hassell's power spot on ECM these days. Please give it a spin if he had it.

great idea!

i've found something i've wanted to try for ages, so i will be selling my radford and my khozmo passive pre, if anyone is interested...

Sorry for your loss.

This is a gorgeous, gorgeous setup - but that room looks mighty echoey.

Hope it’s ok to post this here.

Bought a 7kg tub of Atacama Atabites to fill some speaker stands, then immediately bought some floor standers so didn’t use them.

Cost £30, £15 to anyone who can collect from near Highbury and Islington before Sunday evening.

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Finally unpacked the Tannoys. Makes a nice change after two weeks with just a Sonos One on top of the fridge 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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