My living room system is mainly for enjoyment, though it also serves as a primary listening room for evaluating and tweaking new designs. Speakers are most often
Notice acoustically neutral coffee table. If you have a glass one get rid of it!
The Yamaha was set-up as a secondary, parallel system with it's own speaker wires attached. It was used mostly by my wife so she didn't have to deal with the "worry" of tubes. My thought was if I keep it simple she'll listen to the hi-fi more often. It worked and sounded decent.
One reason I've got so many LPs is because I'm a voracious musical omnivore--I like all types of music. That rear-wall cabinet holds rock/pop etc, with the bottom row giving over to jazz. The cabinet of the right side is the rest of the jazz. Off camera is another cabinet about the size of the back-wall unit filled with classical and opera, with two rows of electronica/house/dub. At the office there's around 40 percent more, with a similar mix.
No, the 'table is just for fun, just for me. I've been playing around with turntable ideas almost as long as I've been playing around with speakers. They're similar in a way.
Hello Bluecirclehead, The tweeters in the Super 8s are about 26 inches from the floor, though the adjustable feet make that variable. They are designed to be set-up with a tip-back or rake-angle that aims the midwoofer up towards the listening position. They have a very wide window of adjustability so a low sofa should not be a problem.
Hi Jim, Glad to hear you liked The Nines, Don is a truly great guy. My equipment rack is by a company called Salamander, and it's their modular "Synergy" system. Not exactly audiophile, but it makes the system work in my livingroom, and looks great.
It's a knock-off Nelson, but a real one is in our future.
The super 8s will do pretty-much what you'd expect without toe-in, a bit less image focus, larger but more diffused soundstage.You can play around a bit with the rake-angle to partially compensate for the effects.
We showed Super 8s at CES in 2005 and 2006 in a small-ish room, about 8 to 10 inches off the rear wall with great results. They're pretty room-flexible if care is taken with set-up.
Hi Iglun, Thanks for the kind comments. Yes that would be a pretty early pair, within the first couple hundred or so. Do you still have them (or know where they are)? There are significant upgrades that can be done (free to original owners, cheap to later owners). Brings them close to current gibbon 3s. Cheers, John
Thanks Pdreher, it's an old, unrenovated NY tenement, so the floors are actually wide, soft pine. Very springy, so I had to mount the t-table up on the (brick) wall. I see you use the Synergy racks too, aren't they great! The doors were a real marriage-saver!
Chadnliz--The ET-2 has many lovely qualities, though as an only arm I might miss some of the slam of the others. Magical and etherial though, and quite addictive.
Smholl, there was a recess there before I built those shelves, it's a strange effect when someone first sees me pull out a record, as though it's materializing from the ether! Hey, DeVore is me! Let me know if I can help out in anyway.
