I found the linn way to polite for my liking, transparency to die for but a different presentation of sound compared to Naim which wasn’t for me.
Enjoy your Nova, great box and I understand the desire for simplicity when balancing sound with living room - it’s easy to get carried away with huge hifi infrastructure taking over the room!
Gary
I’d worry about that shelving unit being so close to the left hand speaker. It must be causing all sorts of reflections. Can you not lose it?
You beat me to it…
It’s only just been delivered yesterday🤣
It will be moving however. It’s going across to roughly where the brown chair is, which will move to the other side of the room🙂
Sounds like a plan. I was interested to know what your speakers were. Having looked at your profile I found them in the Dynaudio website. They way Dynaudio promote them made me chuckle.
It’s not something I’d have, but yes, that’s better.
I absolutely love ‘em♥️
I used to have a pair of Linn Keilidhs which I had for 30 years. Never thought I’d ever change them and wasn’t sure I’d done the right thing when the Evokes were new and the room was a mess.
Now they’re run in and so is everything else and the room is sorted, they are simply MAGNIFICENT!
How does your plywood base work under the hifi, is it screwed to the floor or floating off the floor on spikes?
Your LP12 table/support is very clever made out of your racking/shelving units.
You’re just a sucker for a big bottom.
Being home alone today presented an opportunity to place the ‘uglies’ in the lounge.
Baffles 6 ft from the front wall and a bit of toe-in tweaking, ably assisted by the little bass modules and WOW, they sound much more spacious, smoother and more natural than in the little office.
Vocals dead centre, instruments floating in their own space - the speakers disappear acoustically - if only they did that visually 
92db/8ohm sensitivity and absolutely no crossover components means the 50WPC Arcam A18 can drive them plenty loud enough the 6.5m x 3.3m room with plenty left to spare.
Any ideas on how to make them a bit more attractive would be greatly appreciated!
As it’s system pics here they are again (sorry)
The base under the system is not connected to the building at all.
We drilled through the floating floor and then down into the reinforced concrete base.
We used a construction resin to fix 10” threaded dowels into the concrete and then ran nuts holding large washers down to 15mm above the wooden floor.
We then bolted the 25mm plywood board down.
I could hold a square dance in the cabin now and the Turntable would not be affected at all😁
See pics below of the dowel fitting…
Very thoughtfully done 
That’s a very effective and neat solution.
What drew you to the Evokes? You just got me thinking about the cheapest element of my system . I spent more on speaker cable than I did on my speakers 
Thank you, I thought so too.
It took a very good tradesman to turn my idea in to a reality, but the result is superb😊
EDIT Miraculously, of the 8 holes we drilled, we only hit the reinforcement steel once. Destroyed the drill bit in the process😂
At the risk of sounding flippant, my ears…
I was looking for a product to replace my much loved Keilidhs, but set myself a budget ceiling of £5k.
I read many reviews and listened to many different products. This included Neat’s, PMC’s, Sonus Faber, Spendor and ATC, but only the Dynaudio’s and ATC’s really grabbed me.
Mrs QS was with me for the Dynaudio demo and she loved them, so that’s what we went with😊
Can I ask what was it that you liked about the ATC and the Dynaudio’s just curious how you narrowed it down to those two…
Very nice !!!
