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

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Steven Holt said:
OOOOOOOH Multicore.....a Buckeye with Ascend towers.....sweeeeeet!
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Yes, it's nice. I'm still getting surprises from the setup. I've got over 2000 albums collected over 40+ years and some of them sound a lot different from what I remember on this system. Most don't sound surprising, just good, but with some I go "wow, I was missing that before".

Thanks to room effects the bass goes to about 28 Hz. Room EQ is in the Flex.

I forgot to show the Raspberry Pi 4+ with a large USB SSD that runs Plex for the audio and video vault that we can play on the Roku, WiiM, and phones. It attaches to the router, ofc.
 
None of my audio setups are complicated enough to warrant a diagram, but my home network is. My music collection is on Ryzen9 and backed up to the DS920+ and then the DS420+. There are 40-50 other devices connected to the network which are not shown on the diagram...

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Full disclosure, I'm a software developer that makes lots of flow/architecture diagrams for work, and sometimes just for me for fun. I don't claim to be normal. I also use the draw.io app that was linked earlier, as does my whole team at work (there is a free downloadable desktop version). It's very slick and easy to use. I cannot imagine trying to do this in PowerPoint, but more power to ya. I whipped this up a while back and is my current office/desktop system:

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Here's the photo of the system. The ever growing stack of incoming CDs is to the left bottom. The two mandalas (Sri Yantras, to be precise) are my own work. Both speakers are raised off the floor by little over a foot, one is on top of the Son of Sub, the other on top of an open, painted, MDF cube that holds coffee table books behind the floor stack of CDs. There are many colored pencils and pens for art projects I will eventually get around to on either side of the stack of the Yamaha AVR and the Sony Blu Ray. The Topping L30 is barely visible to the left of the Yamaha and Sony gear. The E30 is hidden by my coat as is the Acer Laptop.

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I made a diagram of my system in case I die and my wife has to finally learn how to control it. I have a lot of home automation stuff so the things she needs are all just one 'magic button' away, but Home Assistant eventually gets api compatibility issues.
 
Can't compete some great systems. Journey with me now to the Center For Spiritual Growth with my lowliest and the most listened to system.
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1a,b) 1979 Speaker Lab kit speakers which I assembled for my mom to give my dad with a Yamaha receiver and Garrard TT. He passed in 2012 and brother and I got a lot of tools many in this picture.
2) Loxjie A30 zip tied to the monitor bracket. Amir made me buy. Thanks Amir. Laptop next to it has Roon for the whole house and SolidWorks CAD that would have made a superior presentation to this one, but who cares.
3) Bluesound Node1 ($85 on eBay)which to their credit is still working flawlessly with all updates to BluOS.
It sounds great and if this were a woodworking site this could have been up to par with other posters, but it's not. Rhino is Plastic
 
Robin L said:
Maybe I'll post a photo later.
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Thank you @Robin L, as always!
I am (we are) looking forward to seeing your photo (and hopefully diagram) of your audio system with which we will be able to have at-a-glance understanding/overview on your audio rig!
 
Diagram, maybe pics later:


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Timcognito said:
Can't compete some great systems. Journey with me now to the Center For Spiritual Growth with my lowliest and the most listened to system.
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1a,b) 1979 Speaker Lab kit speakers which I assembled for my mom to give my dad with a Yamaha receiver and Garrard TT. He passed in 2012 and brother and I got a lot of tools many in this picture.
2) Loxjie A30 zip tied to the monitor bracket. Amir made me buy. Thanks Amir. Laptop next to it has Roon for the whole house and SolidWorks CAD that would have made a superior presentation to this one, but who cares.
3) Bluesound Node1 ($85 on eBay)which to their credit is still working flawlessly with all updates to BluOS.
It sounds great and if this were a woodworking site this could have been up to par with other posters, but it's not. Rhino is Plastic
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Forget the audio system, I want the Unisaw! (Still getting by with my old Sears table saw and jointer, my son bought me a Wen drill press a few years ago that I've barely used, no bandsaw. And nowhere near that much room for my workshop.)
 
I know many people in our league of multichannel audio (audio-visual) system are using multichannel-blade-type (mainly HT=home-theater oriented) amplifier(s).

At the very first step of my amplifier selection process in my multichannel audio project, I too intensively tested/evaluated YAMAHA MX-A5200 11-Ch amplifier especially comparing it with ACCUPHASE E-460 integrated stereo amplifier (ref. here #175 on my project thread). That was the very first step of my long amplifier exploration journey in multichannel audio project. You would please find my (provisional) summary post #311 how many amps, and what kind of amps, I have intensively evaluated in my audio/acoustic environment at my own listening room.

Throughout my amplifier exploration journey, I, at least for me, came to the belief that amplifier selection should be on the policy of "right-person-in-right-place"; just for a typical example, to drive highly efficient super-tweeters, we do not need powerful amp but definitely need amp of high S/N low distortion in high Fq zone.

Another very unique (?) feature/aspect of my system shared in the first post on this thread would be I use four HiFi integrated amplifiers directly dedicatedly driving SP drivers. You would please find in my recent post #931 for the many pros of using pre-amplifier+power-amplifier or integrated-amplifier in multichannel audio system enabling safe and flexible relative gain (tonality) control in analog domain with no effect/influence on upstream DSP configurations.
 
Timcognito said:
Journey with me now to the Center For Spiritual Growth with my lowliest and the most listened to system.
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I believe that's the first married kitchen and woodworking shop I've ever viewed. KOOL
Just keep the sawdust out of your Fettuccine Alfredo !:p
 
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