System Pics 2023

[GavinA]

Furniture back in. Room sounding nice again.
Not just the floor. The equipment housing is nice,too.

Music side, with Lyngdorf Tdai 3400 & Mac Mini

Driving Yamaha NS1000XW on item audio custom made stands with Gaias.

And AV side in here, Audiolab components and MK dipole speakers as rears.. no centre as the Yammys don’t really need it.

 

[Salamander]

Icon Audio PS1 MkII. I'm not 100% sold on it but would like to try a few different valves... once I have sated my tube-rolling addiction on the Freya+ that is... For anyone who has note tried them, Linlai 6SN7's are quite special.

Sorry to ask, but which Linlai 6SN7's are you referring to?

 

[Del monaco]

Looking great.

 

[Greyandy]

Sorry to ask, but which Linlai 6SN7's are you referring to?

These ones... https://linlaiglobal.com/index.php/product/linlai-global-elite-e-6sn7-vacuum-tubes-pair-or-single/
I've rolled a load of different 6SN7's on the Freya (both expensive NOS Sylvania and Tung Sols and Chinese CV181's etc.) and the Linlai's have the biggest wow-factor of any valve I have tried. Great dynamics and detail through the whole frequency range.

 

[Stew B]

Thank you, yes, that plug socket is moving

(And some cable ties are on order ).

That's the trouble with it all, mine's the same, nice rack or cabinet then comes the issue of hiding the cable mess and trying to route it all. Mine is a disaster area behind my Quadraspire rack but that's the nature of the beast especially with the AV equipment, network switch etc as well. I spent a few hours at the weekend pulling it all out and tidying it up together with cleaning all the plugs and contacts with Deoxit, it did sound a bit better but TBH all the tidying up of the cable runs was like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. No better really.

 

[PhilofCas]

That's the trouble with it all, mine's the same, nice rack or cabinet then comes the issue of hiding the cable mess and trying to route it all. Mine is a disaster area behind my Quadraspire rack but that's the nature of the beast especially with the AV equipment, network switch etc as well. I spent a few hours at the weekend pulling it all out and tidying it up together with cleaning all the plugs and contacts with Deoxit, it did sound a bit better but TBH all the tidying up of the cable runs was like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. No better really.

, I think I’ll be able to hide a fair wodge of the spaghetti behind the cabinet, I’ll tie wrap as much as I can into a loom type of arrangement (the fibre broadband cable is particularly unwieldy!), though ultimately it’s a bodge whatever is done.

 

[paulfromcamden]

That's the trouble with it all, mine's the same, nice rack or cabinet then comes the issue of hiding the cable mess and trying to route it all. Mine is a disaster area behind my Quadraspire rack but that's the nature of the beast especially with the AV equipment, network switch etc as well. I spent a few hours at the weekend pulling it all out and tidying it up together with cleaning all the plugs and contacts with Deoxit, it did sound a bit better but TBH all the tidying up of the cable runs was like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. No better really.

One of the advantages of having big ugly speakers - you can shove quite a lot of crap behind them!

 

[k90tour]

 

[GavinA]

That's the trouble with it all, mine's the same, nice rack or cabinet then comes the issue of hiding the cable mess and trying to route it all. Mine is a disaster area behind my Quadraspire rack but that's the nature of the beast especially with the AV equipment, network switch etc as well. I spent a few hours at the weekend pulling it all out and tidying it up together with cleaning all the plugs and contacts with Deoxit, it did sound a bit better but TBH all the tidying up of the cable runs was like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. No better really.

I notice that Steve Hoffman’s forum has a thread where people post pics of the backs of their equipment to to show the cable horror show. (Shades of Laocoon for Greek scholars).

 

[Stew B]

I notice that Steve Hoffman’s forum has a thread where people post pics of the backs of their equipment to to show the cable horror show. (Shades of Laocoon for Greek scholars).

Well here is my cable horror and why it didn't make too much difference


It looks fine from the front
April 2023

 

[Rug Doc]

I sorted the back of my cabinet the other day, cable tied all the power cables together horizontally, and ran the RCAs vertically…. I was going to take a picture and post it as it looked so good - I didn’t take a picture and regret it now…

 

[Cereal Killer]

As we're talking about cable installs .... don't know how I managed it

 

[Greyandy]

Messy cables are better for reducing interference and cross-talk... that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

 

[RoA]

As we're talking about cable installs .... don't know how I managed it

That's a right old mess

 

[RoA]

Well here is my cable horror and why it didn't make too much difference


It looks fine from the front
April 2023

 

[Del monaco]

Like…yum!

 

[TimF]

CK, where do all of your dust bunnies hide? Looks nice as ever!

 

[flapland]

CK, where do all of your dust bunnies hide? Looks nice as ever!

Looks like they have retired from CK's along with the cable fairies. Sadly means they are on double shifts around mine.

 

[TheDecameron]

As we're talking about cable installs .... don't know how I managed it

CK, do you do home cabling visits?

 

[Cereal Killer]

@Tim F - the puppy chases them out the door and off the balcony, IIRC.
@flapland - I'll ask Dela (puppy) to chase them down wind from yours.
@TheDecameron - I'm no cable slut, sorry