The room is acoustically wondrous. The 3m ceiling height with logs spacing it, the walls have no parallel surfaces at centimeter scale, so they act as diffusers and the log spacings act as absorptive diffractors I guess…? And the thick, aged log walls have superb insulation too.
But the acoustics don’t make this space, of course it is magical for all the senses.
Can I be rude and ask whereabouts that is, it’s quite literally my dream home, I just wish they built stuff like that over here in the UK.
In a beautiful place out in the country, in Finland.
The neighbours aren’t chopping up my AC sine wave, but I’d think it’s noisy because of (I think they are…) old transformers and an antique main switchboard. Dunno though, no oscilloscope.
When I eventually get some money to buy a new car, I’ll spend it on having the country’s first balanced mains in a privately owned property!
Amazing, think I need to consider Finland in my retirement plans!
Absolutely. I recommend a remote place up on a hill, looking over a lake horizon through a layer of pines.
ooops sorry, posted in wrong thread
That’s kindly said, I guess I’ve been somewhat active on the forum, so that’s really nice to hear, my input must not have been (too) asinine, then.
My bedroom “system”. This one box Bluetooth speaker from Peachtree really sounds great. Not battery powered so portable enough to take outside or camping if you have AC power (wife’s car has an inverter). Plenty loud even outside on the deck.
I started streaming music in 2006 with a Slim Devices Squeezebox V3 and their software running on my desktop computer. The software is now Logitech Media Server and I’ve been running it ever since. When the Squeezebox V3 died it was replaced with a Squeezebox Touch. At one time this was my main system. Now I’m fortunate to have PS Audio Stellar GCD and M700’s In my main system.
I did a few more things recently… Sold the Music Hall mmf-7.3 turntable and Schiit Mani to my oldest brother, drove 130 miles round trip to pick up an absolutely mint Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 2 amplifier, installed taller shelf poles and cross braces for my Vulcan rack to make room for that huge amp, and removed all of the cabling coming from and going to the stack of cassette decks in the back of the room for now.
another LMS user here, on and off since around that time 
never had any of the hardware sadly but played from it with browsers and then pi squeezelite instances.
Squeezebox…
YEARS ahead of their time, and paved the way for everything else.
Had a few SB3’s, couple of Touches, a Boom and a Transporter.
Still use a Touch and the Boom, only recently sold my Transporter.
Sorry for the delay in answering. The first HDMI cable didn’t work. The second I finally got around to attaching today.
It sounds excellent. Virtually indistinguishable from the balanced connection. I got to see the DSD display in my SGCD so I know it was functioning as intended. I’ll leave it hooked up and play more records because I don’t have anything else that would use that port anyway. So I remain willing to revisit my opinion. But initially? It sounds great.
Mike in Dayton
Hi Mike, thank you for the feedback.
I am not surprised that you can hardly hear a difference.
Add to it the possibility to record to a computer via USB. It is a petty PS Audio don’t make them anymore.
Hang on to it it’s good piece of gear.
I hope I can find one even second hand for good price.
I’ve been really pleased with it overall. I did get it as an absolute steal. I’ve tried once to record from a record and it seemed to work fine. I don’t plan on letting it go anytime soon.
And a torch to knock on anybody’s head who tries to take it 
As I get older I’m simplifying my system… This weekend I removed the Serenity Super-7s–EXCELLENT speakers if I say so myself–and reinstalled the Vienna Acoustics Mahlers I’ve had for years, sometimes simply standing around.
Still using the P20…far-left, bottom of stand…driving everything in the system but the Epson '5040 projector.
Still using and loving and keeping the M1200s(1)…
My system is still a combination-music-and-movie system and is currently configured as 7.2.6(2)… I’ll soon be removing the ceiling-middle speakers as the room isn’t deep enough for three pairs of ceiling speakers to work well sonically.
I LOVE BIG-orchestra Classical and film music, and multichannel SACDs sound simply splendid in this room.
(1) I almost succumbed to the Emotiva siren by buying another XPA Gen3 so I could actively biamp the Mahlers, but I didn’t.
(2) The ten surround and ceiling speakers are ELAC B6s and are driven by the Emotiva 11-channel XPA Gen3 poweramp… It also drives the Martin Logan triple-hybrid (moving-coil ‘bass’, electrostatic MR, mag-planar treble) ElectroMotion ELS C center-channel speaker.
We’re going to be doing a ton of renovations in the spring, including a bunch of work in the new man cave! Can’t wait
Got the room set up in the new house. The one club chair will be moved to the right side after the sofa arrives for front and center,
Dutch&Dutch 8c?
