Pics ‘From the Listening Position’

Hmm, it’s pretty grim IMHO. Maybe you need to search out something stylish and discreet. I’m lampless since James took it away today. I only post this picture because it’s with my new phone camera, which is really very good indeed. Its ability to get decent shots in low light is very impressive. Hopefully the standard lamp will arrive in a week or two.

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Take a look at Original BTC. Handmade in England and made to last. You’re worth it.

Is your finger aching, I can feel you hesitating….

Always a very elegant space HH, lamp or no lamp!

If I might make a couple of comments, in the spirit of things and as usual I have no qualification to make any comments, and no one need take any notice, but for me the red cable is rather eye-catching (much as any blue LED lamps), and you should consider stacking the books in size order, large at the bottom and small at the top of the pile.

Good to see the Ercol table back in place. Where is the bird?

The new phone camera seems to produce a ‘cleaner’ image with less grain (or is this the result of some clever in phone post processing).

No.

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Haha. The red cable should be considered a style statement! It doesn’t bother me at all, though I imagine I could find some sort of cable cover, which may not be a bad idea. You can blame Mrs HH for reordering the books, as rather than being placed just to look nice, she was actually reading one of them.

The bird is back with its friend the ‘70s Poole Pottery vase here. I hesitate to post this, lest someone tells me the books should be in a particular order. As for the original picture, no processing at all.

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Don’t know about the order of the books but your painting needs better lighting

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Well, it’s not getting any. We are happy with it as is, and normally we have other lights on so it looks less high contrast. The painting is by a French artist who lives near Albi. She paints from memory to give impressions of places, with the canvas on an architect’s sloping table.

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HH I bought cable sleeving (about 1half inch diameter , Black and split along one side, ) off the ‘Big River’. Was about £15 for 25 ft

Almost from the listening position

Not quite listening position either, but then the remote still works from up here

Now the official listening position
A second pair DBLs just in case :crazy_face:

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Spectacular!

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Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve found some 6mm wrap for £7.89 for 3m on eBay. I’m glad you suggested the split version as I wasn’t aware of it, and the Chord streaming cable has a big fat plug on the end.

HH et al,

At the risk of catastrophic thread drift, I support your the notion that lamp pictures are to be welcomed. They can be used successfully to make the sometimes austere design of hi-fi components more domestically acceptable and they’re really good for helping us to see what we’re doing!

Here’s mine - it’s a design by François Châtin c.1980.

Best wishes,

Brian D.

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I actually bought off Amazon (next day delivery is a bonus)

Alex Tech was the brand 1/2 inch 25 ft for £13.59
Other lenghts are availble

Thanks…

I think the change to a simple setup as you have demonstrated is one perhaps I should adopt here, and try and present less cluttered rooms for us, but the problem for me is not just the hifi, the whole house needs a radical treatment to rid us of 45 years of accumulated junk, almost all of down to me and magpie tendency to grab anything useful from skips and throw-outs. A very long way to go before we reach the general de-cluttered looks you (and others) present from your listening positions.

Your move to simple hifi using the active PCM and the Atom has much to commend it …

My own stack is not so much, but still intrusive…

Apologies for odd reflections…

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Oh absolutely! Took a while to build, and still shy of a few finishing touches like painting and flooring. The prerequisite was enough space for music and books.

Have 2 of everything in HiFi. Just in case. Love the DBLs. All looks very very special.

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I hadn’t realised that you’d had it built for you. How wonderful. I assume you had good architects to project manage it all. A good architect is worth their weight in gold.

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