Lovely room and set-up Dan. Hope you’re enjoying it 
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Thanks Andy,
I have got things where I want them to be. Really enjoying the room and system 
Best wishes,
BD
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The setup is looking good, Dan.
I hope you’re well buddy💪
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I’m doing good. Somehow I now have 9 weeks of building work to do out of nowhere!
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And now for something completely different:
I have owned and disposed of several CD players, the one I liked the best was a Meridian 506, but it died and spares for repair were no longer available.
Some time later I was at an NZ high-end hi-fi retailer that I had known for some time, picking up a Manly Jumbo Shrimp tube pre-amp very cheap - he did not represent Manly, but had taken it in for a debt from an agent going belly-up. I mentioned that the 506 had been my favourite CD and he said he had met Bob Stuart at an LA audio event who was banging on about passive income……
During the early rush to NAS I decided to buy local, Antipodes Audio, a company so new I met the owner at his house - he was building the units on his kitchen table! The big selling feature was that the hard drive never stopped, but just idled when not in use. This obviously produced some heat as over the next couple of years I watched the casing turn from black to brown. I had the same CDdiscussion and he explained about the limitations of 16 bit and DAC architecture and how designers had to make compromises.
Before my Naim Atom and progression to NDX2 I had a Bluenote streamer and Tidal. When I compared normal streams to MQA it was just like the difference between a Wadia CD player (accurate but cold) and the 506. MQA may be now out of favour, but the Meridian-inspired Roon is still going strong.
So looks like Mr Stuart got his passive income after all.
Just saying…… Tom
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Further up thread I reported the tweeter on the right SBL was off, well not anymore. Turned out to be a dirty banana plug on the speaker cable.
SBLs are back!
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Great news that !!
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Saves me from applying my woodworking skills to modify the tweeter surround to allow for the newer D2008/852100 for a little while longer 
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How do you manage moving them without a heart attack because of risk breaking the seal.
I still have 2 pair of old/originals as spare 
And 1 pair for Sl2 which I never owned
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I just pick them up, held vertically and steadily no problem.
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And i build some kind of slider to move them on the tiles 
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Just catching up on this thread after a month away. Nice to see you are happy with the new system layout @Dan_M
ps. I did see an S1 at tom toms when scouring the internet last night for bargains! 
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Newly purchased and now installed 500 system. NAP500DR was a demo, everything else new except the ProAc D38 speakers which I am sticking with while I decide on their upgrade. Very happy with the new system. Decided not to take up the option of converting the new pieces to a green logo light. Previous system (200, 202, CDX2, hiCap) going to the oldest son after all are serviced (ex-CDX2 which naim no longer services). Now onto the speakers…
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Are you thinking of sticking with ProAc? A pair of K6’s?
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Yes @crispyduck, have an in home demo arranged of the K6 Signatures. Still finalising list of other two I will test out – potentially Marten Parker Quintet Diamond, but need to get my head around their scale (ie. their depth) and Sonos Faber (different models).
Sounds fab. I have the more modest ProAc D2R’s with my 222/250 but they just work so well together
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Earlier this year I mentioned that I might make some changes to my LP12. I bought it originally around 1979-80 when I was a student, and I started (as many did) with a Basik arm and cartridge. Pre-Valhalla, and no switchable speed change, so two belts and 45 rpm adaptor. Basik became a P77. A few years on I was working in London for a hi-fi retailer and I bought a Zeta from the then rep. I had a DNM pre-amp from Denis Morecroft and because I was buying a lot of 12” singles at the time, I got fed up with the faff of switching pulleys and belts. A colleague suggested that I use the speed control box from the Logic dm101 turntable (I think the LP 12 used the same motor at that time). This provided sterling service until it died a couple of years back. I’d long since left the hi-fi industry but had ended up living in Leicestershire, which happily for me meant that my local dealer was Cymbiosis. Peter Swain replaced the dead Logic control with a pre-owned Mose Hercules, added a Cirkus sub chassis and bearing and gently told me that I should replace the tired Koetsu Rosewood.
Long story short, I visited Rearsby recently and spent a very enjoyable few hours in Peter’s set up room. He took out the Mose and fitted a pre-owned Radikal 1 and replaced the Cirkus bearing with a Karousel. Finally, he fitted a Hana ML.
End result? Huge uplift in sound quality in all departments. My interest in vinyl has been revitalised and the new Naim NVC TT/NPX TT is now showing what it can do.
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I wish I had never traded in my LP12 , not least because it was promptly broken up for spares
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