My little sanctuary

Kei

Kei

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Here is my hideout. Completely rebuilt my room back in january as it used to be a total tip. You can just about see the 690-II hiding under my desk. The panasonic plasma acts as my 3rd screen when needed.
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Spec:

PC:
CPU: Phenom II X4 955
MB: MA-790FXT-UD5P
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD6950 toxic 2GB
Ram: Corsair Dominator 4GB + Kingston HyperX genesis 8GB
PSU: Corsair TX650V2
Cooling: Custom watercooling loop
Case: Coolermaster CM690-II Lite
Monitors: Dell 24" 2408WFP & AG neovo F-419 19"

Home Cinema/Hi-fi
Stereo amp: Luxman L-220
AV receiver: Marantz SR4200
Disc spinners: Marantz CD-56 / Philips CD930 / Cambridge Audio DVD57 / Panasonic BDT120
PVR: Topfield TF5810PVRt
Turntable: Thorens TD 160B + SME 3009 tonearm.
Speakers: Home made KEF chorales and home made 10" ported subwoofer.
TV: Panasonic P50UT50B 50" plasma
 
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Cheers, the audio system has been a lot of hard work to get right.

The keyboard is an apple pro. (from the G4 era)

Speakers are home made, based on the KEF chorale. (2 way, 8" KEF woofers, 1" soft dome SEAS tweeters and an adapted crossover)
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They look even better in a closeup.:D
I'm planning to switch to 1155+watercooling and eventually make myself some speakers. Don't know much about building speakers atm, but I have time to learn about it.
 
A subwoofer is the easiest place to start learning to build speakers as you have less to concentrate on. I built my sub for my GCSE technology project just over 10 years ago. Getting multi-way speakers to work is an art that is difficult to master, which is why i chose to create speakers that were loosely based on a proven design and then get a measurement mic and run some tests to work out how they were performing and what tweaks were needed to the crossovers. Troels Gravesen has some very good designs that you could build. (personally want to build the SEAS 3 way classic, but I can't justify the costs given how much i spent on my current speakers) Technically I cheated slightly by reusing a vintage teak cabinet and adapting it to my needs. This is how they look under the grilles. (freshly polished cabinet at the time too) These "bookshelf" speakers (yer right :lol:) are actually slightly bigger than most modern floorstanders at just over 24L cabinets. Still nothing on the celestion floorstanders i have downstairs, which are more than twice the size.
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I'm looking into building my own poweramp at some point too as there's only so much i can do to improve the prebuilt stuff. All this stuff makes upgrading my pc look quite cheap though. Watercooling was quite an expensive venture, though definitely worth the cost. Having seen your tidy antec 300 build, I reckon it'll be a fine build.
 
Snortan said:
They look even better in a closeup.:D
I'm planning to switch to 1155+watercooling and eventually make myself some speakers. Don't know much about building speakers atm, but I have time to learn about it.
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I went to college with two guys who build their own speakers. Seemed like quite an enjoyable hobby :)

Quite a nice setup you have there, I must say.
 
Some improvements to my desk to make it neater. Really like the large desk mat, i've stopped falling off either side of the mouse mat now.
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Finally replaced my topfield 5810 PVR with something more reliable. (after it corrupted the file list again and broke all my recordings up into 1400 fragments that i'll have to try and edit back together) Replacement is a Humax HDR Fox-T2 1TB, which i've applied custom firmware to so i can access it anywhere.
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PC is looking a tad dusty, and that noctua has got to go as it is too noisy. New GTX 780 & EK titan block have bedded in nicely. Temperatures are way down on what they were with my 6970.
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Using the plasma as a gaming display is awesome, though it is better suited to movie/tv duties as using a mouse on the bed makes my wrist ache.
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It's not far off my original room design that i drew up last year. Just need to sort out the shelving for underneath the plasma so i can fit a centre speaker and some more bluray/dvd storage.
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It's certainly a far cry from how my room used to look back in 2005.
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Love the A/V gear, but your room did have one big plus in 2005:
Nintendo 64 (with golden eye?)
Also wondering how many metres of cable you've been able to hide so well :P
 
Nurf said:
Love the A/V gear, but your room did have one big plus in 2005:
Nintendo 64 (with golden eye?)
Also wondering how many metres of cable you've been able to hide so well :P
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I still have the N64, just not out on display. (it lives behind the mirror panel to the left of the tv and yes it is golden eye) A rough estimate on cable length would be around 150m ignoring the usb connections on the pc. Most of it travels over the ceiling or under the floor.

TheOuterOne said:
Wait.. is that a car seat mounted on top of a desk chair-thing? Love it!^_^
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It is indeed. Super comfy and dirt cheap to make, still reclines and gas lift works too.
 
Nurf said:
Also wondering how many metres of cable you've been able to hide so well :P
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Dug through the pictures i took back in January when i finished building the hifi rack. This should give you a rough idea.

This is just the cables that link the various units on the rack plus my pc. Custom made cables at just the right length helps. (includes both signal cable and mains via IEC) It's tempting to chop off the pre-wired mains connections & fits sockets on everything.
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This is the stereo amp which drives my front speakers only. This now has a pair of isolation transformers in place which stops a ground loop caused by my xonar essence.
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One analogue input from the PVR and the other 4 inputs are all digital. The subwoofer connection was absent as it was in the car back these were taken.
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Got hold of some tannoy super red monitor 10's to replace my Kef Chorales. Certainly have a different character to the way they sound vs the kef's, probably because of the dual concentric design having a very different polar pattern. Tonally, there is less of a difference, mainly just more LF. Also got a 12 way powercon-IEC mains distribution unit so that i can manage the power to my hifi and pc via one unit.
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Mains distribution to help tidy up my cable chaos. Going to have to fit IEC sockets to the back of most of my devices where possible.
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