thx i just ordered 1
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Doing my part, staying off the LA freeways during the storms.
What better way than some music, backgammon and Bruichladdich Classi Laddie on ice.
Yeah, It’s a burden.
The hidden stuff in the closet behind the wall.
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Nice setup!
What’s the kit atop the amps?
TIA.
Thank you,
Put together two Purifi amps last year. When it gets too warm to run the Pass amps, I can easily change over to them.
The Pass space heaters are lovely when it’s cold, though.
Cheers,
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I’ve added some acoustic treatments. Then I noticed that I had room on top of the abfusers for my lava lamps and eyes of the storm.
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Long Live Lava!
How do you like the abfusers?
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They helped with the soundstage depth, and the bass traps on the left and right cleaned up the bass energy in the room.
I still need to get some abfusers for the first reflections. I will probably order those in a couple of weeks.
Love the blue lit Turntable Nook!
(originally wood storage I’m guessing)
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So in 1980, at 16, I thought the new Pioneer SX-3800 was the one thing that my life could not possible live without. I had (have) the brochure and it was more valued, pined over and gawked at than any hidden playboy magazine. I knew that receiver so well that I drew it from memory one day during our ever dull grade 10 social studies class. (I saved enough $$ to get one that summer.) I couldn’t draw a stick man picture to save my life but I had a pencil, a trig triangle and a passion:
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That is/was quite a box!!!
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Thank you,
That Oracle was a gift for my wife 30 years ago. When we remodeled, she designed that as a way to show it off.
The tonearm cable is kept short 1.25 meter by feeding it through the wall to the Stellar Phono on the other side. I can then run balanced to the BHK preamp.
Here’s a few shots of the listening area. Behind the seating is a 24’ Nana wall.
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Fantastic room!
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Thank you,
It was actually an enclosed porch (made without permits) when we bought the house.
Fortunately, the space was grandfathered in. Perfect to start over and do it right.
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I imagine it sounds WAY BETTER opening it that way!
Jealous here!
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That’s an obsessed audiophile! I remember drawing cars (or trying to) but never audio gear! That’s fantastic!
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Obsessed audiophile - in TRAINING… 
And one still has these old drawings & things when they still live in their childhood ranch house… because moving is nature’s way of forcing you to weed out your superfluous belongings…
After I got the SX I ripped the old flip down clock timer out of my creppy all-in-one stereo and made an audio timer with the addition of some pressure switches, toggles, outlets, and a metal project box. Good ole Radio Shack. Even used the radio shack nibbler tool to cut out the rectangular holes.
I also had a panel of switches on my headboard that controlled lights and one connected to a 120V motor on cables and pulleys which opened up my curtains.
My mother lived in a constant state of wide eyed trepidation. “Don’t you burn my HOUSE down!”
Seeing as I was NOT allowed to tap into any existing house wiring… I tightened an elastic band under the lower plate of my bedroom light switch, tied it around the toggle to pull it down (off) and tied a string around the toggle - it went up to the ceiling - thru an eyelet, across the ceiling, thru another eyelet and down to just above the headboard and cap-locked into a dangling Grolsch beer bottle. Lift the bottle for lights out, pull it for lights on. Low tech smart home.
I’ll admit I used that until smart home stuff came to be…
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I am in love with those chairs. The way you put up the turntable is brilliant.
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the garden with the tree is the most beautiful sight. Congratulations for the rest.
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I had a SX-3700. It got me through High School & College. Good Times !
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Love the C20s with the dedicated stands!
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