How wide is the dac stand? Do you have a link for it?The number one benefit of working from home, for me, is being able to have my own audio system in a my own private office so I can listen to music while I work during the day. My only source is my Mac, on which I mostly stream thru Tidal, but I also have Apple Music and a personal collection of lossless music that I stream from my own server. Up until recently I had a very modest system in my office with $100 speakers and a little 6" Kanto sub, but at the end of last year I decided I wanted to put together something excellent. Here is a diagram of my new system:
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Below is my desk where it all lives. I love that the miniDSP Flex can switch on the fly between different Dirac calibrations that I have for sitting vs. standing mode, and it makes everything sound great both ways. Up until this week when the new Flex showed up, standing mode has always suffered quite bad acoustically. I also recently made the 4 foot tall acoustic panels behind my desk, and on the wall to the left. In my small 115 sq/ft office, they made a dramatic improvement in sound quality.
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The electronics stack sits nicely under the left side of my monitor:
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I'm guessing it's one of these: https://apos.audio/products/topping-acrylic-rackHow wide is the dac stand? Do you have a link for it?
Thanks, that is what i though but was hoping it was wider. I have a similar acrylic stands for my setup at work for Modi - Loki - Mani. Looking for a similar one for home for BiFrost 2 - Lokius - Lyr3, not many options that i can findI'm guessing it's one of these: https://apos.audio/products/topping-acrylic-rack
Dimensions are in the last pic.
What chair is that?Cloffice setup -
Denon 4311ci
Philips 867
Dynaudio Emit 10
AudioGD nf11.28 DAC / AMP
Audeze LCD-2
Audeze Penrose
Emotiva Sub 10
On Order -
Dynaudio Evoke 10
VTV AMPLIFIER Stereo Purifi Audio 1ET400A
REL T/7x
Looks like a Herman Miller: https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/What chair is that?
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Home Office
Focal Utopia Diablo Evo
Levinson 335
Levinson 38
Levinson 30.6
Clearaudio Concept + IFI Zen Phono
Velodyne MiniVee
Hidden under the desk are a Mac Mini M1 + Topping D10 (USB -> toslink -> 30.6)
K&H heated pad for the cat.
Any chance you can elaborate a bit further here, did you try some DSP/EQ and room calibrated mic or just wasn't working for you in other way?Recently upgraded to these from 8010As after messing about with a subwoofer, these 8030Cs are better by themselves than I could get the 8010As with a sub.
Glad I ran across this. I was thinking of going with a similar setup (speakers, amp, dac), but with a 2.1 in a small living room for TV / music duty. The room is 13 x 22 (8 ft. ceiling) and I'll be sitting 12 ft. away. Think your setup has enough juice for that size space?Nice to see some really cool setups here.
Just got my iFi Zen RMA'd and it's nice to get it back after using bluetooth for a while.
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The iFi Zen DAC is connected balanced to a SMSL DA-9 amplifier, on to a pair of Q Acoustics 3020 speakers. Beyond that you'll see a pair of Philips X2HRs, Hifiman Sundaras (just visible, under desk on right), Fiio FHE (on desk), and a Raspberry Pi 3b+ w/ a BOSS DAC HAT running spotifyd on Manjaro Linux for Spotify Connect when the main PC is off. Plus a bunch of other IEMs on the right (I think I'm done with that rabbit hole).
Before lock-down, music was nothing more than background noise for me. During lock-down I bought some Edifier r1700bt powered speakers & they got me more interested. Everything here is a nice upgrade over those & I'm now hooked.