I’d half seriously go as far as calling it a log mansion. Heh.
84 years old, a true example of how they kney their schiit in house-making back in the day - not to mention it was my olden relatives as the carpenters. Third house on this plot so far, my ancestors moved here in the 1700’s. It feels weird and humbling to live approximately just where my greatgreatgreatgreat…great-grand-relatives lived. Makes the residence and surroundings truly feel like the home.
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I’ve had great results with these speakers as close as 36" inches off the front wall in other rooms, but in this room I have the ability to have them out over 6 feet!
I’m gonna mess around with them this weekend. Last night, I just plopped them down where the other speakers were, so not ideal for these.
Let me know where they end up in the room when you are done fussing them in.
Did you build them yourself or have it done? My free time is so limited that I would most likely never get the kit together. That is one of the main reasons that I went with the X5’s.
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I think if you use a lever and some blocks you might be able to block up and change out one end at a time?
I actually purchased these when they were first released about 14 years ago through AV123. In fact, the plaques on the backs of them says “AV123 X-Statik”. But since the owner of that company ended up doing illegal, unscrupulous things, I refer to these speakers as “GR Research X-Statik’s”, since they are the brain child of Danny Richie anyway.
I’ll post up final positions of the speakers when I get them dialed in.
Very nice setup!
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Thank you, sir!
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I see records but I’m not seeing a T.T ?
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Sweet room! And great job on the set up.
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Nice, every 3 ft more distance from the front wall half the equipment cost you need for a fascinating sound experience 
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I still don’t have all the gear here at the new house. Some of it (like the cassette decks and such) are still at my brother’s house, including the Technics SL-1700MkII that I plan on using again. In the meantime, we do have a small Project TT in the bedroom system that we use.
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Hmm… Interesting math there. LOL
You might have mentioned before, but I could not find it; what are those colored light licht sticks in the corners? Love those.
There’s several different brands that make the same exact lights. I got mine through an ad on Facebook a year ago, but a quick Google search for “led corner floor lamp” pulls this up…
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Current state of affairs in the main part of the house.
At the beginning of the year I said “no more upgrades” and I’ve spent the equivalent of a nice used car since then. 
- Luxman L509X integrated
- Raspberry Pi and Pi2AES HAT running RoPieeeXL (homemade walnut case)
- Denafrips Pontus II … I2S connection from the Pi
- Onkyo SACD player (not used too often, but sounds pretty good into the Pontus)
- Thorens TD-124 with SME 3009 and Shure V15 Type IV (Using the Luxman’s phono stage. Perfect match with the Shure.)
- Harbeth 30.2 XD
- Pair of REL T/5i
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Nice! Does Papa play bass?
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i wish.
My kid played upright bass in his high school orchestra. I play guitar and mandolin, and I keep the bass around for our jams so the bass players don’t have to schlep anything when they come over.
Plus it looks cool!
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There is a super hip vibe coming from that room man.
Cheers,
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sometimes I’ll play Blue Mitchell or Erroll Garner and you can feel the hipness increase
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