Let's share diagrams (and photos) of our total physical audio system and the whole signal path, with a few words and/or links

[dualazmak]

Prior to starting this new thread, I have searched all the thread titles within ASR Forum by a key word "diagram" and found we have no similar thread like this; if you know/find some, please let me know.

I always believe one diagram or one photo would worth more than 1,000 words especially for sharing total system of our audio (audio-visual) setup.

Please understand, however, I (we) do not always expect beautifully prepared/drawn diagrams and/or photos; even hand-written/hand-drawn rough sketch diagrams should work well in the perspectives of this new thread.

So, let me start this new thread by sharing my diagrams and photos as follows; if you would be interested, please visit my post here #931 on my project thread for the details.

Just for your reference, I mainly use Microsoft PowerPoint for preparation of these diagrams and photos. Please refer here for the details.

Spoiler

I wrote in my post #639 on my project thread as follows;
....
Microsoft PowerPoint which is really familiar for me since I have been intensively using it for preparation of presentation materials in my biomedical research...

After preparing PowerPoint slides, I spread them by "slide-show" in full screen of my PC monitor ( I use two of EIZO FlexScan EV2750: 2560x1440 pixel each, 5120x1440 desktop), and get the jpg images by a free flexible screen capture software.

Sometimes I take the jpg images again into PowerPoint slides for further processing/manipulations to give final slides to be captured into jpg and posted onto ASR Forum.

Edit on November 28, 2022 August 19, 2024:
The size of the PowerPoint file for my project thread is now about 130 322 1,400 MB (including all the diagrams and photos as well as many draft slides; now I have 877 1,711 2,468 slides in it), and it is still growing!

Of course, whenever I added/edited a few slides, I save the PowerPoint project file with different file name (including the date sequence like "20211019_a") so that I should never lose any of the slides I prepared. At present, I keep all of the 177 299 374 revisions (total only 8.9 32.3 75.4 GB) of such PowerPoint project files; the very first version was prepared in March 2020.

For digital (raw + jpg) photo shooting sessions, I use my CANON EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (Digital Single Lense Reflex) camera plus mainly EF 24-105 mm F4L IS II USM standard zoom lens (among several lenses I have; ref. here), and if needed, I use CANON DPP4 (Digital Photo Professional 4) and/or ADOBE Creative Cloud Photoshop for some retouch procedures on raw and/or jpg photos.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[dualazmak]

Thank you @rationaltime for your very first participation!
I know well that you are one of the regular members on the thread "A Call For Humor!"

 

[Sal1950]

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Does that use a genuine cat whisker?

 

[pma]

My 1970 system

 

[RayDunzl]

Hold on, let me get my brother...

 

[Frank2]

Holy cow! When is the exam? Because I'll need at least a month to prepare
But to be honest, I like drawing these types of diagrams, too, to remember how everything is connected:

The top with the fronts/subs is my audio chain. The bottom is the video chain which basically relays the front pre-out signals into my audio chain.

 

[Sal1950]

I like drawing these types of diagrams, too, to remember how everything is connected

By the time I figure out how to do the diagrams I'll have forgotten how to log on to ASR.
I've posted most before but here's photos of my rig circa 1985, I'm sure everyone here knows how to wire this up.
Top to Bottom DBX100 Sub-harmonic Synthesizer, Phase Linear 1000 Dynamic Noise Reduction, Mitsubishi DA-F20 Tuner
Crown IC150 Preamp, Phase Linear 700B Amp, AR-XB Turntable,

Same Klipsch La Scala Speakers in both, System circa 1995
VTL Compact Mono amps, JVC XL-1015TN CD, (hidden) PS Audio PS III PhonoAmp,
(hidden) H-K ST8 Linear Arm Turntable. Same PL1000 and Mitsu Tuner as above.

Current rig is linked in my signature.

 

[Multicore]

That sounds like a lot of homework.

 

[dualazmak]

Hello, dear my ASR friends,

I am not in a hurry!
Please take your enough time and efforts on preparation of your diagrams and photos to make this new thread worthwhile and enjoyable to many of us.

And, let me repeat that "Please understand, however, I (we) do not always expect beautifully prepared/drawn diagrams and/or photos; even hand-written/hand-drawn rough sketch diagrams should work well in the perspectives of this new thread."

 

[MattHooper]

Wow! The OP truly has a mind different than my own. I couldn’t in my wildest dreams imagine having the inclination or time to do something like that!

 

[orbano]

I did similar diagram some months ago, looking on how to simplify my setup (and also how to integrate the sub in the HiFi setup). In the end, I didn't change anything; I've just tried to use the Denon AVR as Hifi preamp, but didn't like it. Here it is.

 

[mhardy6647]

Umm...

 

[Speedskater]

Wow! What program was used to make the very first diagrams?

 

[Sal1950]

So, let me start this new thread by sharing my diagrams and photos as follows; if you would be interested, please visit my post here #931 on my project thread for the details.

Wow! The OP truly has a mind different than my own. I couldn’t in my wildest dreams imagine having the inclination or time to do something like that!

LOL.
@dualazmak I do wish you luck with this thread but the one thing I learned both here and at another Hi Fi site or 2 years back is that folks really don't like posting pictures let along diagrams like yours. I remember thinking back when you first posted your stuff/pages what an interesting but time intrusive job that must have been. I've no idea why people don't like to post pictures, Myself and the mod Savage started the picture forum here but had to beg folks to put stuff up?
Anywho, I do wish you luck here!

 

[dualazmak]

Wow! What program was used to make the very first diagrams?

You can find the answer at the bottom of my first post!

Spoiler

Just for your reference, I mainly use Microsoft PowerPoint for preparation of these diagrams and photos. Please refer here for the details.
I wrote in my post #639 on my project thread as follows;
....
Microsoft PowerPoint which is really familiar for me since I have been intensively using it for preparation of presentation materials in my biomedical research...

After preparing PowerPoint slides, I spread them by "slide-show" in full screen of my PC monitor ( I use two of EIZO FlexScan EV2750: 2560x1440 pixel each, 5120x1440 desktop), and get the jpg images by a free flexible screen capture software.

Sometimes I take the jpg images again into PowerPoint slides for further processing/manipulations to give final slides to be captured into jpg and posted onto ASR Forum.

Edit on November 28, 2022 August 19, 2024:
The size of the PowerPoint file for my project thread is now about 130 322 1,400 MB (including all the diagrams and photos as well as many draft slides; now I have 877 1,711 2,468 slides in it), and it is still growing!

Of course, whenever I added/edited a few slides, I save the PowerPoint project file with different file name (including the date sequence like "20211019_a") so that I should never lose any of the slides I prepared. At present, I keep all of the 177 299 374 revisions (total only 8.9 32.3 75.4 GB) of such PowerPoint project files; the very first version was prepared in March 2020.

 

[Petrushka]

LOL.
@dualazmak I do wish you luck with this thread but the one thing I learned both here and at another Hi Fi site or 2 years back is that folks really don't like posting pictures let along diagrams like yours. I remember thinking back when you first posted your stuff/pages what an interesting but time intrusive job that must have been. I've no idea why people don't like to post pictures, Myself and the mod Savage started the picture forum here but had to beg folks to put stuff up?
Anywho, I do wish you luck here!

I’ve spent a good deal of time trying to minimize the number of pieces. My dream system would be a streaming preamp wirelessly connected to active speakers. Or just streaming active speakers that have an adequate list of services.

 

[Multicore]

I've been able to get some real work done with

Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software

app.diagrams.net

With only a little practice you can work real fast with it. I save the diagrams as XML .drawio files downloaded via the web browser. And I export the final image with either print to PDF or screen shot like this

 

[Multicore]

I’ve spent a good deal of time trying to minimize the number of pieces. My dream system would be a streaming preamp wirelessly connected to active speakers. Or just streaming active speakers that have an adequate list of services.

What if, in sci-fi hypothetical thinking, we could choose the music on a phone that controls a brain implant that creates a kind of dynamic holographic simulacrum of a sound field that's better than any loudspeaker system. All the home audio equipment gone. Are we still into the audio hobby at this point?

 

[Petrushka]

What if, in sci-fi hypothetical thinking, we could choose the music on a phone that controls a brain implant that creates a kind of dynamic holographic simulacrum of a sound field that's better than any loudspeaker system. All the home audio equipment gone. Are we still into the audio hobby at this point?

I’ve never been interested in equipment except as a means to listen to music.

I have family, so simplicity is a virtue.

A marketplace that caters to diverse wants is also a virtue.

Edit: cochlear implants connect directly to the brain.