System Pics 2023

Our new Media Room/Conservatory floor is engineered wood. Very pleased with it🙂

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I wish I had done that in my kitchen instead of ceramic tile.

Engineered timber flooring is the best option these, in most cases it can be glued directly to the sub floor. Also good hardware stores have kits to fix scratches in timber and engineered time floors. Much easier that sanding/polishing the whole floor.

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Yes and I’ve decided to change my order and put down tiles instead. Had a brief look at imitation wood tiles which looked ok. Will go for a further look next Saturday. In the end I don’t want all the constraints that come with a wooden floor.

You may well have already posted this but what is the story of the speakers please?
I have a home made set up using a Wilmslow kit and Scanspeak drivers.
Are yours from a kit or totally bespoke?

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You can read all about it here:

Google “Troels Gravesen” you’ll find Troels’s website. Kits are available from Jantzen Audio in DK.

Check Mark’s profile for other speaker build threads too, there’s some amazing stuff in them.

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I’m pleased you’re staying too Simon (@QuickSticks). Social media (Twitter/X etc, rather than this forum) is a nasty place, and I’ve never regretted my decision to stay well away from it. People can be extraordinarily cruel when they’re hidden behind a keyboard and screen; in the same way that the mildest mannered people can turn into scary versions of themselves when they’re behind the wheel of a car. It’s easy to say, but harder to do, but you really should ignore them; maybe even pity them for getting their kicks in such a vituperative way.

I’m not really a Rush fan now, but I used to be an obsessive one; I think I bowed out soon after Moving Pictures. I even saw them live on the Exit Stage Left tour. Hemispheres was definitely my favourite album, followed by 2112 and Permanent Waves (where the love for them began). I still listen occasionally, especially to La Villa Strangiato, which I think is a masterpiece.

All the best

David (my real name)

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CD555 now changed out and boxed ready for return to factory for service. I’m now ‘slumming it’ with CDS3, taken from second system, connected to the 555DR PS. Sounding pretty damn good and this is the first time I’ve heard it through the 552 DR amp. Very smooth.

Moving the CD555 compared with the CDS3 was like comparing a miniature Dinky with a maxed out Tonka. Not a job you want to do too frequently (not to mention the 7 transportation bolts).

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Good for you for staying. I think that the moderators on here generally do an excellent job of keeping things in line - but there will always be a few know-it-alls ready with a quick judgment because they can’t help themselves. I think that they are in the minority here though - especially compared to most other forms of social media.

All the best,
M

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What?!? Do you mean we can become not Rush fans!. Oh the horror! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Phew, I’m all right then. Never been one.

I had to pop over to my Brother in Laws place today to ‘temporarily’ connect up my old Roksan kit, that I sold to him last year.
We also found him a pair of Keilidh’s on a well known auction site to replace the ones I stole back from him.


Stacking aside (it is temporary) it sounds decent enough. His streaming solution will be an ‘Alexa’ pod running Amazon Music connected to preamp. You just can’t help some people… :man_shrugging:t4: :joy:

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I have had the Roksan K3 system in the past, minus the power amp. Used it with Spendor A6s and Rega RP6. Sounded great for the money, nice and full but detailed. Have even thought about rebuying for the study but have held myself in check, at least for now :smiley:. Just to put minds at rest my little Alexa Echo Dot was not connected for streaming duties! :rofl:.

Young Mr Quicksticks, you are the equal of any one on here, and has been proven by their very strange wicked behaviour, greater than some. Why some think they can be so arrogant and down right nasty I for one will never know, perhaps these individuals are lacking in something - “Carry on!”

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I like you even more for the ‘young’ in your post…:blush:

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You’re very welcome!

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Occasionally I still get addressed as young man. Usually by market traders. I’m 70 so it’s stretching it a bit.

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Oh ! Young Man. :scream:

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Where has the Rush reference come from - was it earlier in this or just from my user name?
Totally obsessive Rush fan - seen them many times and have all their official music.
Started with A Fairwell to Kings around 1978 and never stopped. Around 23 albums and many compilations / live etc
Someone once said they were like a heave version of Genesis.
Anyone else as afflicted as I am?

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Sounds like our Rush experience/fanaticism is pretty similar. Finally filled the last two gaps in my Vinyl collection recently with 1st US pressings of Counterparts & Test for Echo.
Sadly never got to see them after the Snakes & Arrows tour as I was too ill for the Clockwork Angels tour and they never brought the last one out to Europe😢

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