Your compromise

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I’m guessing, regardless of cost, we all have decent systems with which we’re pretty happy.

However… usually there’s always a compromise. Mine is that now I live in a third floor apartment I can’t use the volume levels I could in our house, so it’s headphones, which I don’t find as enjoyable as speakers.

So, putting affordability/financial budget limits aside, what is your principal system compromise?

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Aesthetics.

And, partly overlapping, that I want my audio in the living room, so the space has to serve other purposes as well, possibly ranking higher.

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If we’re talking about setup compromises I have two:

  • The 7 on-wall speakers for ATMOS are too high up. The surrounds needed to avoid being in the way of furniture and the worlds most thoughtlessly clumsy kids (they don’t touch what they’re not supposed to intentionally but they could somehow break a crowbar just staring at it). The fronts needed to be up high enough and far enough out to not be directly obstructed by my main system stereo speakers. They could all do with coming down 50cm. But I knew this when designing the room and accepted it. It’s still incredible.
  • Ran out of money on the kitchen system so it’s a major mullet. I had a spare pair of floorstanding PMCs which the low cost amp struggles with quite obviously. It would sound better with a lesser speaker thats not as demanding or revealing.
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Three major compromises:

  1. Small speakers
  2. Listening room is a 5m perfect cube
  3. Suspended wooden floors

Oh for my original home with a huge, irregular-shaped listening room built on a concrete slab!

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Lack of SWMBO approval for my speaker spend!

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The well lit Christmas tree that’s just gone up.

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No compromises. I even ripped out sofa to have one instead of two to accommodate 3 stacks of Fraim and move speakers into the room more.

I have dedicated my funds, time and space, prioritising system in my home.

I am not married and don’t live with anyone. I have 4 kids but they are as good as gold and respect the system.

I have compromised other things such as 2nd sofa and other work being doing on my house to prioritise the system!

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Streaming from my Atom H. E. rather than invest in a turntable. But I have a new Nait 50 and my first set of speakers - Russell K Red 50s for several years. I’ll be looking for a suitable CD player.

I know that I’d probably enjoy a turntable and perhaps playing with valve gear, but we have a small house and a curious cat. Streaming to my amp now there’s a wired connection between Atom and Nait 50 is a vast improvement to streaming to MuSo. Enjoying my new kit!

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I don’t think I have made any compromises with my present system. Having to play music in a room is forever a limitation, but not really a compromise as there is no practical alternative other than potentially once in a blue moon ( did done that once, achieving the best sound I’ve ever heard from hifi, though with a lesser system than now). My room is not perfect, and doing something better with is a plan, but not a compromise rather a matter of time waiting for certain things to come together.

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where do you live?
Martin

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When I did it several years ago I thought of putting my main system in a spare bedroom and having a Nova and Neat Iota Alphas in our drawing room as a compromise.

I no longer see it that way, I’m super happy. The drawing room looks great and sounds plenty good enough and I have much less grumbling about my taste in music :joy:

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Box count and aesthetics. Trying to keep my other half on side.

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In a mostly windy and frequently wet British island, in an otherwise tranquil location where neighbours enjoy their gardens adjoining mine whenever weather is kind…

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Playing choral music on Radio 3 streaming in the lounge.

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Three major compromises:

  1. Small speakers
  2. Listening room is a 4m perfect cube
  3. Suspended wooden floors
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Craggy Island :laughing: ?

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I had to Google that! (Not a series I to my taste.)
Opposite side of Ireland.

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Good question that I’ve not come across before.

My main setup sacrifices a bit of rhythm and groove for tunefulness and better ability to play digital recordings.

My office system kinda does the opposite.

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My 552 and 500 are not DR’ed, and won’t be, ever :face_with_diagonal_mouth:
I’ve written to my MP about it, and protested to the United Nations, and they both told me to get stuffed and said the issue is not eligible for a hearing.
However, considering i have such a good hearing with my system i’m happy to settle with non-DR :blush:

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