System Pics 2021

Your room looks
very elegant, and your set up now compliments rather than dominates. Were you not waiting on Atacama stands for your Tablette’s?

I did think about them but decided they would be a bit big and bulky. What I have now are much more discreet I think, and it’s nice to have something hand made.

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Makes them unique and probably worth more with 1cm reduction and great provenance.

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Wow HH I met my mrs in 1984 :grin:

A mono-schnauzer - good name for a piece of Hi-Fi kit.

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Hi - it was customised by a local carpenter. In hindsight I would have provided for more space as the interconnects are a bit cramped.

I was born in 1984. That makes me feel young. As a mature age student at university that is a rare feeling :joy:.

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I went back to school in my early 30’s but had to do an Access course first to gain the qualifications to apply to Universities as I’d left school at 16 without any qualifications I was offered a place at Sussex to study Anthropology but after a long hard think decided it would put me on the back foot financially for too long.

I did however meet my life partner at the Access course and the whole experience was won I enjoyed immensely.

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I like the tiles - which version are they from their website?

Also, how do you like the Majik 140s? They have been in production for many years and seem a lot of British built speaker for the money, yet, despite being at a popular price point, very rarely get any mention in the HiFi press.
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Edit - have found the version - were they easy to fit? They are not marketed as having acoustic properties (other products on there are) but did you notice any difference?

That makes you one of the Forum’s relatively few under 40s - a select group indeed. Back in 1984 when I was 23, I had an LP12, Ekos, Karma (I think), 42, Hicap, 250 and Linn Kans. Unfortunately I no longer have the pictures. It was a good system for a 23 year old - hifi was much more popular back then of course - and it was paid for by working far too many hours in the University bar. An income and the odd half of free beer. Can’t be bad. Fast forward 37 years and the current system is similar in many ways - source first and 12” high speakers.

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Thats a very fine system at 23! I blame my dad for getting me into hifi. From a very young age he always used to get me to come and help listen to new equipment. I would get the “hand me downs”. My first pair of speakers was a proac response 2.5 clone (DIY), paired with a musical fidelity amp, and a marantz CD player. That was at the age of 16/17. As a result i have been hooked ever since. At the moment he has 2 linn LP12’s that he has built from parts of flea bay and I am working on acquiring one! I feel he should help feed my addiction since he created it…

Excellent stands indeed. I am not far from Deco and met Mark a couple of years ago when he made stands for my ATCs. Sad that he has stopped making them.

I got my first LP12 on my 18th birthday. Every single penny of the £292 price, including Rega arm, was earned by me working at B&Q in my gap year.

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Hi Alex, I opted for the hexagons with the slope and installed them so that no two adjoining sides were the same level as I think it gives a more pleasing 3D effect, which changes depending on the light source.
They are extremely easy to fit. As they only weigh 200g apiece it doesn’t take much to keep them in place. There is a video on Youtube showing how it’s done.
All you need is some flat double sided sticky pads and one tube of their recommended adhesive fixed 30 tiles. The pads keep the tiles in place whilst the adhesive sets.
I did ask them if they had any acoustic properties and they said not and I can’t say I’ve noticed any. I did arrange them in a random pattern but avoided the area directly behind the speakers just in case.

I’ve had the Majik’s for 6 years now and I auditioned them against others in the same price range and I thought they sounded great to me. They don’t seem to be popular on this forum which sometimes makes me question my choice but I auditioned my 272/250DR using PMC Twenty5.23’s (which seem to be well liked on here) and couldn’t tell much difference. Okay it wasn’t a direct A/B comparison but I heard nothing in the PMC’s which made me want to rush out and change. They’re worth a listen anyway - and half the price of the PMC’s. Linn have been making them for some time now so they can’t be bad.

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I was under 40 when I first joined this placed! That was back in 2005 though… Damn!

42 now. That answers everything.

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That simply meant that we did not know what the question was? :0)

A common issue in my industry!

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I always remember my Saturday job when i was doing A levels. It was a diy shop, and i was asked to do a bespoke paint on the machine, took it upstairs and put it on the paint shaker machine. I did not put it on properly, it flew off, the mess was just awful. But they kept me on. In my career i was never too harsh with people after that if they made the odd mistake.

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I think I was 34 when I joined. And I still have basically the same system with only a speaker change. Albeit not currently in use.

It’s amazing how just 8 years later, a person gets so much fatter and loses so much hair!

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What do you think the equivalent of 292 pounds would be today? Do you think those Linn’s are priced the same?