looks like ikea gear to me.
Yeah I thought that, but I couldn't see anything like it on their website... unless I'm just being blind?
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Yeah I thought that, but I couldn't see anything like it on their website... unless I'm just being blind?
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My great photography doesn't show much does it
It's a millett hybrid MAX. DIY project and thus can be tailored with boutique or cheap parts, and tailored to certain phones. Check out *** DIY section at head-fi.rog, there is a massive thread over there.
It's a great amp, really really makes the grado's sound fantastic, and does a great job with my koss ksc75 clip ons too.
Cost about £200 in parts, but I did get mine from the USA and got stung by customs. Also i went for silver cable to do the internal wiring as I had some left over from an interconnect build. Black gate capacitors in the important positions and some nice toshiba BJTs to give the grados a nice punchy sound. Also using some 12fk6 tubes, the best choice imo for the amp.
Well worth building, and I will be building a passive switchbox soon using the same enclosure. Now I wish I didn't spend all thatmonies on pure silver RCAs, lots of cost, high quality, but have oxidised a lot already. And sound difference will probably be negligable, or nothing at all.
My great photography doesn't show much does it
It's a millett hybrid MAX. DIY project and thus can be tailored with boutique or cheap parts, and tailored to certain phones. Check out *** DIY section at head-fi.rog, there is a massive thread over there.
It's a great amp, really really makes the grado's sound fantastic, and does a great job with my koss ksc75 clip ons too.
Cost about £200 in parts, but I did get mine from the USA and got stung by customs. Also i went for silver cable to do the internal wiring as I had some left over from an interconnect build. Black gate capacitors in the important positions and some nice toshiba BJTs to give the grados a nice punchy sound. Also using some 12fk6 tubes, the best choice imo for the amp.
Well worth building, and I will be building a passive switchbox soon using the same enclosure. Now I wish I didn't spend all thatmonies on pure silver RCAs, lots of cost, high quality, but have oxidised a lot already. And sound difference will probably be negligable, or nothing at all.
I mentioned my hifi several years back on this thread. However I realised looking back through, I never actually posted a picture of it. So here it is. Only thing missing is a Sky+ box, I need to order a new one as my old Sky box is knackered. Also it's a chance to show my lovely new Sony KDL32W4000 full 1080P lcd.
I will be moving into a different room and decorating in about a month, so I'm going to build a purpose built Home Cinema pc to go with this lot then. Right now I can use the HDMI out on my laptop to feed high def media into the lcd.
Also, I had to take a close up of my pride and joy (my heart is in high quality 2 channel after all), my Krell KAV 300i amplifier and original Exposure cd player. I bought the Krell second hand about 3.5 years ago now, it was about 8 years old then, so it's getting on a bit now, none the less, why mess with success? ...it blows the vast majority of amplification I have heard into the weeds quite frankly, this includes some pretty esoteric pre/power combos. My fathers Naim/JM labs setup does not sound so good in my humble opinion, then again, his JM Labs speakers are the issue I think, they are so bright, ear splittingly so in the higher frequencies I feel.
The speakers are the most 'budget' part of my setup no doubt, but the little Dynaudio Audience 42's are so good, particularly for £450. I bought those new about 5 years ago. I would like to upgrade them actually, maybe I'll take a look around sometime soon. I feel I'd like to add a little warmth and maybe a tad bit more 'emotion' to the sound I have. I mainly listen to heavy metal, rock and and blues, so the hard driving 'in your face' nature of my setup works well there, but sometimes, particularly with female voices and classical wood wind stuff and older blues tracks I feel a little more 'humanity' wouldn't go amiss. I was striving for a very detailed, transparent sound with great low down clout and a real attack and drive originally, which I still love, but maybe it can be a tad too much at times now though, I guess tastes change. Some guy suggested valves to me the other day
...I told him to go swivel on my Krell plated gauntlet though.
The other bits pictured are a Rotel RDV 1080 DVD player, and a cheap JVC Upscaling DVD player, which, upscaling to 1080i via HDMI I am loathed to admit really challenges the big old Rotel in image quality, although it gets well and truely routed in the sound quality department as you'ed expect. The speaker cable is Naim NAC A5, all the interconnects I have used are Chord, except the ones for the TV and Computer, which are both Vivanco, the cd player has a Soniclink S-Gold mains cable also. The speaker stands are Atacama Nexus 6, on granite slabs, without the slabs I get base boom from the little Dyns, although it was far worse with my old Audiolab 8000LX amp (original not the new stuff) as it struggled to control the base coming from the Dyns, these little speakers really do need some muscle to keep them in check in my experience.
I will be moving into a different room and decorating in about a month, so I'm going to build a purpose built Home Cinema pc to go with this lot then. Right now I can use the HDMI out on my laptop to feed high def media into the lcd.
Also, I had to take a close up of my pride and joy (my heart is in high quality 2 channel after all), my Krell KAV 300i amplifier and original Exposure cd player. I bought the Krell second hand about 3.5 years ago now, it was about 8 years old then, so it's getting on a bit now, none the less, why mess with success? ...it blows the vast majority of amplification I have heard into the weeds quite frankly, this includes some pretty esoteric pre/power combos. My fathers Naim/JM labs setup does not sound so good in my humble opinion, then again, his JM Labs speakers are the issue I think, they are so bright, ear splittingly so in the higher frequencies I feel.
The speakers are the most 'budget' part of my setup no doubt, but the little Dynaudio Audience 42's are so good, particularly for £450. I bought those new about 5 years ago. I would like to upgrade them actually, maybe I'll take a look around sometime soon. I feel I'd like to add a little warmth and maybe a tad bit more 'emotion' to the sound I have. I mainly listen to heavy metal, rock and and blues, so the hard driving 'in your face' nature of my setup works well there, but sometimes, particularly with female voices and classical wood wind stuff and older blues tracks I feel a little more 'humanity' wouldn't go amiss. I was striving for a very detailed, transparent sound with great low down clout and a real attack and drive originally, which I still love, but maybe it can be a tad too much at times now though, I guess tastes change. Some guy suggested valves to me the other day
...I told him to go swivel on my Krell plated gauntlet though.The other bits pictured are a Rotel RDV 1080 DVD player, and a cheap JVC Upscaling DVD player, which, upscaling to 1080i via HDMI I am loathed to admit really challenges the big old Rotel in image quality, although it gets well and truely routed in the sound quality department as you'ed expect. The speaker cable is Naim NAC A5, all the interconnects I have used are Chord, except the ones for the TV and Computer, which are both Vivanco, the cd player has a Soniclink S-Gold mains cable also. The speaker stands are Atacama Nexus 6, on granite slabs, without the slabs I get base boom from the little Dyns, although it was far worse with my old Audiolab 8000LX amp (original not the new stuff) as it struggled to control the base coming from the Dyns, these little speakers really do need some muscle to keep them in check in my experience.
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Man of Honour
thanks to all the advise on here in choosing my TV
This was what I had until a few weeks ago... *shakes head*
Dont really use the desktop as I leave it here when im at Uni, so is in the wardrobe atm! Hidden sneakily behind the TFT on the bottom
Then I brought a new shelf unit.
Finally sold the 26" R74 and the 40" 6 Series and PS3 settle into their new home
40" 6 Series
Denon AVR1907
Kef Cresta 10's (Sprayed matt black by me) 2 more on rear shelves behind bed
Kef Cresta 20c Center speaker
BK XLS200
Sony Vaio C Series 13" Laptop
40GB PS3 (Soon to be 320GB)
Xbox 360 Elite
Next on the list is to redecorate my room at easter when im back from Uni, something a lot lighter to compliment the set up. Also probaly buy some speaker brackets and wall mount the fronts at the same height. Also considering painting the speaker surrounds black too as opposed to leaving them silver.
Sub's not in the best place, but its all I have to work with! Would like some Floor standers for better mid range, but will make do, till I move out!
Dont really use the desktop as I leave it here when im at Uni, so is in the wardrobe atm! Hidden sneakily behind the TFT on the bottom
Then I brought a new shelf unit.
Finally sold the 26" R74 and the 40" 6 Series and PS3 settle into their new home
40" 6 Series
Denon AVR1907
Kef Cresta 10's (Sprayed matt black by me
) 2 more on rear shelves behind bedKef Cresta 20c Center speaker
BK XLS200
Sony Vaio C Series 13" Laptop
40GB PS3 (Soon to be 320GB)
Xbox 360 Elite
Next on the list is to redecorate my room at easter when im back from Uni, something a lot lighter to compliment the set up. Also probaly buy some speaker brackets and wall mount the fronts at the same height. Also considering painting the speaker surrounds black too as opposed to leaving them silver.
Sub's not in the best place, but its all I have to work with! Would like some Floor standers for better mid range, but will make do, till I move out!
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Soldato
New flat
New TV
New setup
Samsung PS50A456 Plasma 50"
Onkyo 605 Amp
Q Acoustic 1010 Speakers with 1030 floorstanders
Xbox 360 (Arcade with HDD)
PS3
New TV
New setup
Samsung PS50A456 Plasma 50"
Onkyo 605 Amp
Q Acoustic 1010 Speakers with 1030 floorstanders
Xbox 360 (Arcade with HDD)
PS3
Soldato
Indeed, nice setup
Mine's fairly similar but with a TX-SR606 and a regular 1010i setup with stands rather than floorstander speakers. Quite impressed with mine. Only thing left for me is to simplify the remotes
Yeah I am impressed with the sound too. It is weird though, in my last flat, when I played music through the Onkyo, it sounded very flat and just generally ****! In this new place all my music sounds fantastic, I guess the acoustics of the room must be better. Very strange!!
I have a Logitech Harmony 525 remote which is fairly good, although I find it quite slow. I am just using the TV remote and Onkyo remote now though as I am only using Freeview.
Bit of an update from my older posts.
Samsung PS42Q97HDX 42" Plasma
Samsung HD-870 DVD player
Onkyo TX-SR506 AV Reciever
Onkyo SKS-HT518 speaker package
SkyHD
PS3
Xbox 360
Nintend Wii
HTPC -Antec NSK 2480 MATX Desktop Case Black & Silver With 380W EarthWatts PSU, Thermaltake Medialab, Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD 3650 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI , OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC, Pioneer DVR-215DSV 20X SATA DVD±RW, Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Socket 775 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard ,Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB Cache, 1 x Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache, 1 x Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache
Samsung PS42Q97HDX 42" Plasma
Samsung HD-870 DVD player
Onkyo TX-SR506 AV Reciever
Onkyo SKS-HT518 speaker package
SkyHD
PS3
Xbox 360
Nintend Wii
HTPC -Antec NSK 2480 MATX Desktop Case Black & Silver With 380W EarthWatts PSU, Thermaltake Medialab, Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD 3650 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI , OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC, Pioneer DVR-215DSV 20X SATA DVD±RW, Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H GeForce 7100 Socket 775 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard ,Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB Cache, 1 x Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache, 1 x Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache
Have got a Media Center remote, TV Remote (thankfully can be used for the DVD Recorder too), AV Receiver Remote and Sky Remote at the moment. I'll probably be looking into a remote like the Logitech Harmony series as it is just a tad ridiculous at present
Also out of interest, are you able to get sound over HDMI out of your HTPC via your Onkyo?
Soldato
I still prefer the projector you had
Nice set-up though. The only problem I have with my black stand is that it highlights the dust even more, do you have that problem?
New flat so haven't noticed it yet. Although I had a similar unit at my old place and I didn't notice it unless I was up close
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What TV stand is that ? Looks like exactly what I'm looking for.
Soldato
Just about got this up and running at the start of the weekend.
Your suppose to take those publicity/info labels off the bezels on the TV dude. Thats just marketing
Quick shot of my AV set up. Not 100% current as i've added a HTPC and Wii since then.
40W4000
PS3
XBOX Halo3 edition
XBOX HD-DVD drive
Wharfedale Pi-40 floorstanding speakers
Some stand from a high street catalogue store
Out of shot is:
Yamaha AX1 av amp
Cyrus CD7Q
Cyrus Smartpower with PSX-R
JVC Super-VHS vcr
JVC tuner
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APC UPS
40W4000
PS3
XBOX Halo3 edition
XBOX HD-DVD drive
Wharfedale Pi-40 floorstanding speakers
Some stand from a high street catalogue store
Out of shot is:
Yamaha AX1 av amp
Cyrus CD7Q
Cyrus Smartpower with PSX-R
JVC Super-VHS vcr
JVC tuner
gt
APC UPS