System Pics 2020

It is to be expected that when an interesting system pops up or significant changes get made to a system it gets commentated on.

Often the smaller systems or the second systems , featuring old parts, obscure quality items or reasoned thinking are far more interesting. There’s one with a Nova, lovely Kudos speakers and a rather swish Clearaudio that I really drool over . Quite simple in many ways, but elegantly put together

My favourite is Lynton’s - the room, the sound, the equipment show a true music lover

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thx

Well said Eoink - agree with all of that.

As for starting it, HH has said he’s relinquishing it (not sure what there is to relinquish tbh but hey-ho) so it’s up for grabs now, as a football commentator famously once said. On a minor point, it strikes me as irrelevant that whoever starts it has to be in the correct time zone. I haven’t done the maths but presumably sometime around noon GMT it will be NYD somewhere round the other side, so that can be the time to kick it off. Whoever does it is a minor issue. Either everyone is overthinking it, or I’m underthinking it.

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Throwing in a picture for good measure! (home office system)

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Also, as an aside, it would be nice if posters included a brief description of what’s in the photo if you already don’t have your system details in your profile, just sayin!

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Love that chair and the tree looks good too.

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I wonder which is most difficult: monitoring the habitual drifters on this thread or herding cats?

Thanks to @anon4489532 for his nudging back on course over the years and best of luck to whoever wishes to shoulder the burden going forward.

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I thought it was. Here it goes: LP12 Akurate into Trichord Dino Mk. 3/Dino+ PSU into NAP200/NAC202/NAPSC through Audiovector SR1AA (using WH Phantom speaker cables).

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I am sure the thread has been kicked off early in the past? Anyway, a pic to keep things on thread.

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@Ian2001, yes I have seen comparisons to the Chord DACs too. I am happy to discuss this further if you wish, but perhaps we should start another thread, a bit like the Hugo/upscaler one? I am always a bit conscious that whilst most of my system is Naim, Naim might prefer more talk about Naim rather than other manufacturers. :0)

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Early morning, still fairly dark outside, holiday setting in our open plan great room, relaxing sounds for breakfast thinking streaming via Tidal. Glad to be home.

Regards alan

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They work well with Atom. There is no hint that the atom finds the speaker difficult to operate. I do not think I have turned the volume over 50 at any time. The sound image is punchy and wide with a lot of height and good depth. The speaker is also very easy to place because the bass reflex port is located under the speaker.

Those small system in this pic does have more magic than the big ones…nice room

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I will start a thread :thread: :thread: :thread: :thread: :thread: :thread: :thread: :thread:

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The big Ergo 3s out of storage for a play in the workshop. Dropped in the wonderful Seas Excel mids then drastically reworked and reduced the crossovers to the bare minimum as a starting point. Deliberately not going to take measurements and use loudspeaker software as they would inevitably end up back where they started; very competent indeed but somehow a bit soulless. We’ll see…

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started under RME v Chord QUTEST

Nice system, top tree!

Nice room and tree.

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Exactly. Unless its some kind of personal publicity.
then again, if only one post, the place would be a little bit more monotonous. :wink:
+1 vote for @Mike_S

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I have had the same system for over 30 years: to keep to the “rules” I would only ever write once, and that would have to have been at a time when the internet was something like usenet (no - I have not checked any of the usenet stuff, but you must get the point).

Unless some further comment and diversion or drift or what ever one wants to call talking about anything other than a picture of a hifi box is allowed, nothing more would be written. What is wrong with waffle, it is what is often (usually) what is most interesting, and offers an insight into another household.

And always there is the scroll bar to simply move on…

My Rogers BBC Studio Monitors, purchased second hand in 1974; still working in the living room, remarkably have survived two children growing up without being poked and prodded, and still enjoyable sound.

(well, maybe not, the sound may be awful. The aural memory is fickle, and new alternative speakers quite likely to perform “better”…However if I changed speakers I would have to write another entry in System Pics 2020…)

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