Post Pictures Of Your Listening Space

[Grainger49]

I'll start with my mess.  Not the most recent picture but it gives a good representation of my mess of wires between the bookcase and the amps/speakers.  Actually this picture is at least 4 years old, things have changed, the mess is worse.

Yup, that is bi-wired zip cord going to the Triangle Zerius speakers.  It has since been upgraded to bi-wired Marine Wire.

This is the real listening position:

As you can see there is not much room for audio buddies.  When someone comes I sit with my head to the left of the left speaker.  The soundstage is still good but thrown off a little, not much.

The last listening room was large.  It has a 20' ceiling and opens to the whole downstairs of the house.  The Seduction is in the cabinet directly below the table on a custom shelf.  I was having problems with hum and this was the best placement.

The two cabinets, left and right are filled with LPs.

Anybody from Bottlehead recognize the beer sign?

Yes, this room ate up power.  That amp is 120WPC.  The Krell that followed was 250 WPC class A.

 

[Thoburn]

I have several pics to post, but am having a bit of trouble, so bear with me. My space includes our living room, dining and kitchen the space is 17 feet wide on the fireplace wall and it is 55 feet back to the end of the kitchen. My system includes Lowther DX4 drivers in Lowther Medallion III cabinets. I have a VPI Scout II table, a Musical Surroundings Nova Phonomena phono amp (runs on batteries or AC), a Linn Genki CD, a NAD 4300 tuner (great sound!) and, of course, my Stereomour. I built all my interconnects using teflon CAT 5. The CAT 5 pair is twisted to about 6 turns per inch, covered with teflon tape, then tin foil, then more teflon tape. Finally, heat shrink tubing and a nice black mesh sheathing. The tin foil is grounded only at the pre-amp end. My speaker wire is Cardas cross link.

 

[Thoburn]

In the left corner is a GIK tri-trap. My Stereomour is using Jupiter HT caps and I have a Mullard 12AT7. I will eventually have 12 inch Rythmic servo subs in the bottom of the Medallions.

 

[Tom B.]

Here's my set up. My Paraglows are buried under all my front end stuff. Those are the late, but great Terry Cain Abby single drivers. They're gorgeous. My room is only 10' X 12', but I've always have had my listening room in an extra room rather than in a family or front room. It's more intimate and I'm not bothered as much.

http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/134.html

Tom B.

 

[Wardsweb]

Here are my various systems:

Vintage catch all for throwing stuff together and having fun. You can see the SEX amp on the black sub (sub is not hooked up).

Dedicated 2-channel in the living room. The speakers are DIY veneered in sapele pommele.

Home theater in the den. Factory custom Klipsch Jubilee speakers.

House music from the dining room. Martin Logan Prodigy speakers.

 

[Paul Joppa]

Sweet!

I've read a lot of (sometimes bizarre!) pontificating about the Jubilee speakers - I'd value your comments?

 

[Wardsweb]

Sweet!

I've read a lot of (sometimes bizarre!) pontificating about the Jubilee speakers - I'd value your comments?

For those of you who haven't heard of these before, the Jubilee were the last speakers Paul Klipsch designed (assisted by Roy Delgado). They were intended to be the replacement for the Klipschorn, the anniversary edition. When Paul died and the head of accounting took over the company, he was going to end the speaker before it began. Rather than see Paul's last speaker be lost forever, Roy, Principal Engineer of Commercial Products,  persuaded the new president to let his division take it over. He had to sell it commercially to keep it as an active production item.

I drove to Hope Arkansas with my buddy Travis to hear the Jubilees for myself and spent some time with Roy and other Klipsch enthusiasts. We spent two days going over design, seeing it run in their anechoic chamber and a lot of real music listening in Roys demo room. At the end, Travis commissioned the first ever custom pair. They are normally black for commercial use. These were made from cabinet grade South African Mahogany veneer on both sides. Several prototypes were built to get the cut list perfected. It took a year to deliver. The horns still need to be painted, which will be done at my friend's auto body shop.

The horn is huge and will produce serious SPL, but that isn't the purpose in a home environment. Roy worked very long and hard to perfect the bell to be able to articulate very accurately music. And articulate it does. Think of being able to clearly hear a whisper or the decay of a piano note. They are close to 109dB efficient running a DX-38 active crossover, so you don't need mega power. The music is effortless, open, very fast and the speakers image incredibly. The bass bin uses two 12" woofers crossing around 500Hz. The bass is tight and airy; not a punchy bass. The music just sounds more real.

 

[Grainger49]

Luther,

Awesome setups!  I am sitting on the sofa and handed the laptop to my wife to show her the systems.  I was telling her about them as she slid the bar down the page, "Vintage system, Living room stereo, Video multichannel system, Dinging room...."  She turned and said, "NO! That's too much."  That was directed to me, I can't have a dining room stereo.

 

[Wardsweb]

I will start with, "hello my name is Luther and I am an audioholic."

Thanks Grainger I do like my audio. It could only happen with the understanding and support of my wife. We kind of try and spoil each other. She also likes the fact that my hobby, passion, obession...Ok lunacy keeps me at home. At this level, it isn't for everyone but it works for us.  She also has a better ear than I and is great in helping me dial in systems.

 

[Grainger49]

Luther,

I didn't mean to out you.  Most of the older posters know you anyway.

Paula says you have a very understanding wife.  

I noticed the Ampzillas in the AV system.  I didn't know you had gotten them.  I knew you were lurking for some.  I just can't believe you have them driving the Jibilees.  I only live about 20 minutes from AKer "Coytee's" house.  I have heard his bi-amplified Jibilees a number of times.  They can make my ears bleed, he's kind enough to give the volume control to visitors.

 

[GLF]

Here is my setup. I just started playing around with high res files so I am not sure where I am going to put the laptop long term.

Andrew

 

[Gibby]

@ Wardsweb  I was just showing your photos to my wife and her comment was "He must be single" and then I read Graingers comments...  I am laughing out loud about this.  See honey we do need giant horns in our dining room...

 

[Gibby]

I just keep telling her "But these articulate..."

 

[Wardsweb]

Spent some time today to fix an SAE A201 and SAE MK2200 amplifiers. Two more working systems now in the mix.

 

[Grainger49]

I think my wife is going to send your wife a sympathy card.  I'm a sucker for old SAE, as you know.

 

[Wardsweb]

I think my wife is going to send your wife a sympathy card.  I'm a sucker for old SAE, as you know.

Speaking of old SAE, I need to pull the one you sent me out and see what it's going to take to fix it.

 

[Grainger49]

Output transistors are bad according to Terry DeWick.  He also said they are not made anymore.   You might find a donor amp.

 

[Yoder]

Wow, some pretty impressive set-ups and living quarters.

Here is my setup. I just started playing around with high res files so I am not sure where I am going to put the laptop long term.

Man, a 27" iMac with a 256 Gb SSD (for the OS and audio apps), and a 2 Tb hard drive (for the music and video) would look pretty sweet sitting in the middle as the top unit. All you would need is a USB DAC (Bottlehead), and could stream your music and also have a nice LED screen to view movies or whatever.

Or, if you didn't want the monitor, then you could go with a Mac Mini which would look good with the gear. With the Mini you could get a 15" monitor and hide it behind everything and use a wireless keyboard and trackpad. I have a similar Mini set-up with an external 1.5 Tb Glyph hard drive connected to it.

 

[GLF]

Wow, some pretty impressive set-ups and living quarters.

Man, a 27" iMac with a 256 Gb SSD (for the OS and audio apps), and a 2 Tb hard drive (for the music and video) would look pretty sweet sitting in the middle as the top unit. All you would need is a USB DAC (Bottlehead), and could stream your music and also have a nice LED screen to view movies or whatever.

Or, if you didn't want the monitor, then you could go with a Mac Mini which would look good with the gear. With the Mini you could get a 15" monitor and hide it behind everything and use a wireless keyboard and trackpad. I have a similar Mini set-up with an external 1.5 Tb Glyph hard drive connected to it.

Thanks

I was thinking along similar lines. My cd player has a USB input that will take up to 24/96. I am looking at a mac mini feeding into the cd player over USB. The mini would be running itunes / puremusic and controlled by an ipad. The dealer I demoed the Cantata at had a similar setup and the ipad controlling itunes and it was pretty damn slick.

Andrew

 

[Wardsweb]

Here is a shot from tonight while I was trying out my new DIY pyramid speakers. They are made from 500 pound test triple wall corrugate (cardboard for those of you not in the industry). I fitted each with a Vifa A10CC-07 (made for B&K) and a Pioneer transducer. I still need to work on the crossovers some more, but still a fun little project.