Show Us Your Listening Area!

[S2 13BT]

I love looking at the photos of peoples systems so thought I'd contribute with a couple photos I snapped a week ago or so.

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It's a Rega Planar 2 into a Yaqin MS-22B, into a Yamaha receiver... Out to Emotive UPA-1 monoblock power amps and finally through Aaron ATS-5 speakers. They're budget Australian made speakers. Nothing high end, but I like it.

Cartridge is an Audio Technica AT95e with a Shibata stylus upgrade on it. I don't have a references against which to compare, so all I can say is it sounds good to me, but my system as a whole isn't too revealing and differences between components aren't easy to identify.

[Bran Kulez]

Here is my work/listening area. Not much equipment to show except a Thorens TD-160 turntable, Dynaco Stereo 70 amp, DYNA PAS-2 preamp (in the cabinet next to Ludwig), JBL L88 speakers. Just about everything was purchased second hand at thrift stores, swap meets, and electronics stores. I made the built-ins (one shown) out of standard birch ply and 2" square steel tubes. My wife did the "3 little paintings", Hazelwood did the big one. Charley Byrd LP (Riverside) above the turntable. The coffee mug and curtains are IKEA.

[Jonti]

Branku, that's a seriously classy place you've got there. Nice stuff!

[Bran Kulez]

Thanks Jonti!

[Alec124c41]

And the table lamp matches the Tilt-All.

Cheers,
Alec

[Bran Kulez]

Good eye Alec! Only a photographer would have noticed that...

[BloFish]

[list=][/list]Beautiful set ups guys. Im in the process od moving into an Eichler home. When we are settled in I will post a few pictures.

[Kei-86]

My junk yard, which is about to undergo some serious renovation. Too much kit and not enough space.

[mrsipowitz]

Here is my work/listening area. Not much equipment to show except a Thorens TD-160 turntable, Dynaco Stereo 70 amp, DYNA PAS-2 preamp (in the cabinet next to Ludwig), JBL L88 speakers. Just about everything was purchased second hand at thrift stores, swap meets, and electronics stores. I made the built-ins (one shown) out of standard birch ply and 2" square steel tubes. My wife did the "3 little paintings", Hazelwood did the big one. Charley Byrd LP (Riverside) above the turntable. The coffee mug and curtains are IKEA.

Beautiful room!

[Bran Kulez]

thanks mr. sipowitz!

[wachuko]

I recently started... this is such a great way to escape. To be able to close the door and just enjoy a good record or listen to whatever music media I want to.... I used some old receiver I had, an old DVD/CD player changer, got an inexpensive table from Best Buy...still a work in progress.

Limited in space and, with a family, it is very difficult to dedicate a room just for music... so I had to use the area where we have the office/computers/library/etc. room for this. My children are old enough to understand that they can't be playing around with this, so I should be fine on that front.

Please feel free to share suggestions, as I said, new to this (well, rediscovering, since I used to have a stereo with a turntable, some 25 years ago! )


Here are the specs:

Pro-Ject RM 1.3 Turntable in High Gloss Black with Sumiko Pearl cartridge
Pro-Ject Phono Box USB V in black
Bowers & Wilkins 684 Speakers
Yamaha Natural Sound AV Receiver RX-V2500
Sony SACD/DVD Player DVP-NC650V
Apple AirPort Express Base Station - to send music to the stereo via AirPlay

Supplies:
Spin-Clean Record Washer MKII
AudioQuest LP record clean brush

Speaker placement might not be optimal, but I have to work within the space I have...

[Dr Pan K]

As you said, the speaker positioning is your main issue. If you have no way for placing them at least another 3 feet away maybe you could opt for a smaller cabinet, perhaps with higher quality

[wachuko]

As you said, the speaker positioning is your main issue. If you have no way for placing them at least another 3 feet away maybe you could opt for a smaller cabinet, perhaps with higher quality

Thank you for the comments. I have a door on the right... I could move them to the left, against the side wall with a Futon/sofa in between.

This is the initial setup, still cleaning up the room, reorganizing, getting rid of some junk, etc. I will try to move them to a better position. Thank you again.

[Alec124c41]

I was going to suggest a small carpet on the wall, behind the turntable and speakers, to minimize resonances in that nook.

Cheers,
Alec