System Pics 2021

Cheers @RackKit – I look forward to seeing your Titans :wink:

Thanks @Graeme – I’m pleased how things have turned out.

@anon17458420 Yes it is gas, we did want a wood burner but this Gazco unit convinced us that this was a better route for us. Remote control was the icing on the cake !

You too @PeterR . I owe you an email :grinning:

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She’s just become comfortably numb…

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Thanks. It looks very nice. I ask because we took out a very old gas fire and wondered about a replacement in the future. I heard from the heating engineer, that they have made great progress with electric fires which are also much more efficient. Of course nothing beats a wood burner which we have in our holiday home. A Jotul F262S which also has a bit of mass and stores heat for up to 5 hours. Bigger ones are more mass and store for longer periods.

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Maybe she nevertheless has high hopes - slight lateral shift there…

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Other than the cancer-causing particles, wood burners are very nice.

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Hi
Interestingly I was discussing this very point with a friend earlier today where the high points in the French alps are already quite polluted with a strong contribution from a large population with wood burners. I agree that they should not be used but the problem where we are is that wood is not the primary source but is an easy nd efficient supplement to heating. We installed our stove in 2007. Primary source is winter oil heating without many credible alternatives. At least for a holiday house. The village has a population that is 240 with about 95 houses. In chamonix the number is a factor of 20 higher. There is no industry here chemical or otherwise. No traffic like tunnels under mont blanc. The water is very good with excellent characteristics. Possibly one of the most healthiest places to live especially compared to the area with all the chemistry sets where we live in Germany. When we move here for good I hope some of the new technologies are mature enough to change but let’s see.

Apologies for polluting the system pics 2021 thread

Best Regards
Mark

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Getting ready for Christmas 2021. What will 2022 bring? Hopefully a safer world.

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Fabulous system and those speakers are bigger than I thought they were.

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Naim’s FM tuners are quite possibly the best sources they’ve ever made.

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Not sure Nigel because I never heard one in an optimal situation. The CDS3 is the all time favourite for me, it is truly a great source when fed with the right CDs
Although I was surprised how good a NAT05 sounded with a magnum Dynalab st-2 while listening to a concert on Hessen Rundfunk 2

Beautiful :+1:

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Sorry Peter. I thought Rudolph had had a nasty collision with your door frame…

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It is no smaller than mine @silklee. For me it makes for a proper full on listening experience! I hope you find it the same.

they did really sneakily in the Netherlands :rofl:, Saturday evening quick press conference and since Sunday hard lockdown. :man_shrugging:

Merry Yuletide! :mrs_claus: :christmas_tree:

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Watch that squirrel with your cables…

If it is a squirrel! :grin:

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Yep… they did. :smirk: Getting my booster jab in a few hours.

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Terrible thread creep I know :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

But I was discussing eco options with our architect. Everything from the pros and cons of solar, to light tubes to wood and pellet burners. Their description of wood burners was a bit sobering.

If you live in a rural and wooded area, wood burners are very eco friendly. They are carbon neutral. All the carbon locked up in the wood is efficiently recaptured in the local environment and the pace of growth in local wood will outweigh the consumption for a small community. Plus the carcinogens and particle pollutants are greatly diminished in such an environment. If you live in such a place, they are a great eco option, not to mention they provide emergency heating and simple cooking options during power outages.

But they take nasty turn in urban areas. With no wooded areas to capture the released carbon and competing particle pollutants from others with such stoves and traffic, they greatly contribute to urban smog and related health issues and lose their carbon neutral status.

We are under snow for 4-6 months of the year so their cozy appeal is clear. But as we are building a townhouse in a city of 2 million where everyone else had the same idea, I’m not sure it is acceptable these days. My heart says “yes”. My conscience says “no”.

Might build a hearth anyway and put a tube amp in it for the glow :wink:

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I’m facing the same dilemma, hopefully we should be building in a rural area next year. Problem for us is we’re building in town.

Quickly any photographs of hi fi’s anyone. :grin:

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Back to hifi. The world’s grubbiest but well used UQ2. Dead screen but still playing music from under the desk 5 days a week for several hours a day since 2013. There’s even a PowerLine behind that mess.

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