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

[EJ3]

I might have missed it, but where does the coffee pot plug in?

There seems to be a table in the room beyond the stereo. Perhaps the coffee appears there (when requested nicely).

 

[dualazmak]

Yes! (ref. #535 and #931 on my project thread.) We also have a nice low-table in front of our listening sofa not only for mouse and keyboard but also for coffee/tea cups.

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Recently, we, my wife and me, really enjoyed a kind of special/unique coffee while we were listening to nice music by our audio rig including the DIY-ed 12-VU-Meter Array...

 

[dualazmak]

This post would be also of your reference and interest, I assume:
- Not only the precision (0.1 msec level) time alignment over all the SP drivers but also SP facing directions and sound-deadening space behind the SPs plus behind our listening position would be critically important for effective (perfect?) disappearance of speakers: #687

 

[EJ3]

This post would be also of your reference and interest, I assume:
- Not only the precision (0.1 msec level) time alignment over all the SP drivers but also SP facing directions and sound-deadening space behind the SPs plus behind our listening position would be critically important for effective (perfect?) disappearance of speakers: #687

Over a period of 15 years (2003`2018) I spent about 3-6 weeks a year (a week or so at a time) in Sasebo & one time a spent a month in the spring in Hero (upon arrival, the snow was still there but by the time I left, it was not). I had some great times there. I had a Japanese friend that was a physician and he invited me into places and I was able to meet people that I would have otherwise been unable to meet. Because I speak German, he liked to practice his German on me & that always drew some interesting looks from people (both Caucasian and Asian). People from other places Thailand, PI, Russia, Ukraine, etc drew even more surprise than locals.
I only knew a few Japanese phrases but between our English & German, Dr. Masami & I understood each other well.

 

[just1n]

draw.io is pretty cool.

 

[dualazmak]

draw.io is pretty cool.

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Welcome to this exciting thread!
Looks you have wonderful multichannel HT setup.

I am very much looking forward to your further posting(s) on this thread hopefully showing us the diagrams of total signal path as well as some photos of your wonderful listening room.

 

[just1n]

Welcome to this exciting thread!
Looks you have wonderful multichannel HT setup.

I am very much looking forward to your further posting(s) on this thread hopefully showing us the diagrams of total signal path as well as some photos of your wonderful listening room.

Thank you for the kind words. Not sure I’ll share photos, but I can share the signal paths.

May do the same for the desktop setup.

 

[just1n]

draw.io is pretty cool.

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I was struggling to find a DAC/preamp solution to include balanced inputs and a headphone output. I took a page out of @anotherhobby playbook which inspired redoing my setup. JDS Atom has passthrough when no headphones are plugged in. Very elegant solution to go silent when others are sleeping by just changing the preset between monitor and headphone EQ. (see their post https://audiosciencereview.com/foru...idsp-flex-review-audio-dsp.30804/post-1891336).

Has anyone ever connected smart outlets to their active speakers? Considering some since there is no auto-standby feature for these Neumann.

 

[IPunchCholla]

I was struggling to find a DAC/preamp solution to include balanced inputs and a headphone output. I took a page out of @anotherhobby playbook which inspired redoing my setup. JDS Atom has passthrough when no headphones are plugged in. Very elegant solution to go silent when others are sleeping by just changing the preset between monitor and headphone EQ. (see their post https://audiosciencereview.com/foru...idsp-flex-review-audio-dsp.30804/post-1891336).

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Has anyone ever connected smart outlets to their active speakers? Considering some since there is no auto-standby feature for these Neumann.

I have my actives hooked to a smart outlet so that I can turn off one and it turns off the other and the sub. It’s worked great so far. Sub makes a small thump when turned on or off but the other speaker handles it perfectly.

 

[dualazmak]

Having a little bit of inspiration from the photo kindly shared by @Snoopy in his post here #351 on the thread entitled "Do You Miss Knobs and Dials and Switches?", last night I did photo session for rather dark views of amplifiers, DACs, etc., and I shared my photos there in my posts #364 and #368.

I do hope it would be allowed sharing the below five photos also here on this thread.

This fifth photo was generated by HDR (compressed High Dynamic Range) image-processing (Canon Digital Photo Professional 4) using three photos of same angle/perspective in three different shutter speeds (of course I used tripod and cable shutter-release). The whole brightness and contrast of the HDR image were tuned so that simulating eye-view in dark/faint ceiling-lights for relaxing music listening.

If you would be interested, please find here details of the latest setup of my PC-DSP-based multichannel multi-SP-driver multi-amplifier fully active audio rig.

 

[Sal1950]

I do hope it would be allowed sharing the below five photos also here on this thread.

I do enjoy seeing the photos of your rig!
I like the look of the ole designs and the solidity of their builds.
Touch screens and plastic panels just don't have the look & feel for me.

 

[Sjkrabbe]

I have posted in this thread earlier on, but now I have cleaned up a bit in my signal path to ensure a more clean signal out of the speakers and headphones
My homestereo setup as of today.
Default everyday signal path: All sources run through Parasound P6 halo preamp followed by a EMOTIVA Basx A-300 to power the speakers.
Speakers are B&W 805.
Headphones are AKG K1000 - Sennheiser HD25 - SennHeiser HD414 - ADAM AUDIO H200



The XLR output of the Parasound pre-amp is run through an IK audio ARC STUDIO room correction unit (that can be bypassed) and into a patchbay for connecting active speakers if wanted/needed.

The RCA output is run directly to the EMOTIVA Basx A-300 poweramp.

REC Output goes to a 4-way passive audio switch that passes on the signal to either a 3E Audio A7 class d amplifier to feed the AKG K1000 headphones or to a Swissonic headphone amplifier feeding the other Headphones.


Rest is as follows
Sources:
TTs:
1. Thorens TD 1601 with ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 pick-up
2. Audio Technica AT-LP140XP Black with several different carts in AT-HS6 headshells.
Both TTs into this Riaa: Pro-Ject Phono Box DS3 B True Balanced.
CD: Marantz CD6007 coax into parasound.
Streamer: WiiM Ultra optical into parasound(Internetradio, spotify).
Tuner: Argon Stream 3 optical into a Audio Engine DAC and from there analog into the Parasound (FM, DAB, Bluetooth)
TV optical ind i parasound
PC sound goes to USB input on the Parasound.

 

[dualazmak]

Thank you for your sharing very nice photos and signal path diagram!

It looks that you are not using subwoofer(s) at present, right?
Do you have any plan to add subwoofer(s) (hopefully L&R) in your nice stereo setup to flexibly enhance/control 15 Hz - 120 Hz Fq zone?

 

[Sjkrabbe]

Thank you for your sharing very nice photos and signal path diagram!

It looks that you are not using subwoofer(s) at present, right?
Do you have any plan to add subwoofer(s) (hopefully L&R) in your nice stereo setup to flexibly enhance/control 15 Hz - 120 Hz Fq zone?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Actually I have not tried a subwoofer - but I might some day - my dayly problem would be that our livingroom is rather small so there is not a good place for just even a single sub.
But if one day I should try sub - and it would be only a single one in the first try.
But to talk about how does it sound - I dont actually miss much bass - take a look at these screendumps of the frequency response in my listening position when using the ARC4 room correction. It only lacks the very lowest octave From 40 Hz and upwards I have a rather linear freq response - And Its not just the measurement - It also sounds very nice, natural and neutral to me <3 BUT and there is a BIG BUT - this is when I bring the speakers forward on stands infront of the setup. And I only do that when my dear wife is out of our home for more than one day on tour or family visits.
But even in the speakers dayly positions I think the sound is rather OK. I only think of the lackings when I do the "Speakers on stand" thing and get the wow effect :-D
I dont miss the bass I my dayly listening sessions actually with speakers in the position you se on the pix and at the same time I have a happy wife

and before room corection!

And here an illusration of speakers on stands that I used another time in an other forum talking speaker placement

 

[dualazmak]

Hello @Sjkrabbe,

Thank you for sharing your wonderful room correction efforts and results; they are really nice and impressive.

I do believe, however, even with single subwoofer effectively covering 15 Hz - 90 Hz zone, you will surely recognize and hear great benefits and improvements in various music tracks of various music gernes!

If you would be interested, please visit another my hosting thread entitled with rather long wording of "An Attempt Sharing Reference Quality Music Playlist: at least a portion and/or whole track being analyzed by 3D color spectrum of Adobe Audition". The links thereof lead you to my post series on Audio Reference/Sampler Music Playlist, and you will find various excellent-recording-quality reference music tracks with 3D Gain-Time-Fq spectrum as well as their links to YouTube sampler video/audio clips.
As for the great benefits of subwoofer(s), I would like to recommend you visiting especially these posts:
[Part-01] Full Orchestral Music: #588
[Part-03] Typical(?) Smooth Jazz Music with Guitar: #591
[Part-08] (Smooth?) Jazz Trio: #640
[Part-09] Organ Music: #641
[Part-14] Piano Concertos: #650

The two of my posts below (3D spectrum and YouTube links available) would be also of your reference and interests towards possible introduction of subwoofer(s).
- A nice smooth-jazz album for bass (low Fq) and higher Fq tonality check and tuning: #63(remote thread)

- New video clips of dancing 12-VU-Meter Array (IEC60268-17 compatible) together with all the on-screen Peak Meters of audio software tools while playing reference/sampler music tracks by JRiver MC, ADOBE Audition 3.0.1 and MusicScope 2.1.0:
_____Part-2: using a typical reference/sampler music track suitable for mainly checking and tuning of low Fq (bass) transient music sound as well as total tonality Fq-SPL balance all over 15 Hz to 22 kHz: #975

We also have thread entitled "BASS!" where I have participated several times.

 

[dualazmak]

Hello again @Sjkrabbe,

As for your possible plan/implementation of subwoofer(s), I assume my post here would be also of your reference.

 

[MusicMan77]

Finally got around to diagraming my bonus room system. Absolutely love this system and never would have thought I'd have anything like this in my life.

 

[dualazmak]

Hello @MusicMan77,
Welcome to this exciting thread. Thank you for sharing gear diagram of your amazing system; really impressive!

Only if possible at your end, I would highly appreciate if I (we) could see your total "signal path" diagram including the details of DSP, especially XO/EQ configurations; I mean that I would like to expect your next diagram just like my Fig.03 in my very first post on this thread.

I am (also I assume "we are") curious and interested in the Fq coverage, XO slopes for each of multiple SP drivers in your wonderful system.

 

[Penelinfi]

Laptop --> Audio Interface Balanced DAC --> Power Amplifier --> Speakers

PC --> DAC --> Headphones or Mini Amplifier --> Speakers

Phone --> BT receiver --> Receiver Amplifier --> Remote Speaker Selector --> Speakers A and B

Not really going to go more complicated

 

[dualazmak]

Laptop --> Audio Interface Balanced DAC --> Power Amplifier --> Speakers

PC --> DAC --> Headphones or Mini Amplifier --> Speakers

Phone --> BT receiver --> Receiver Amplifier --> Remote Speaker Selector --> Speakers A and B

Not really going to go more complicated

Thank you for your attention and interest (if any) on this thread.

I would like to suggest you, however, to come back again with your system diagram(s) [and photos] of your physical gears as well as diagram(s) of total detailed signal path, to be shared with us on this thread, please.

You would please kindly understand the title and scope/intention of this thread.