My little sanctuary

The R300 poweramp and the plasma generate the most heat. The PC trumps all the hifi kit though as it dumps bucket loads of 40+°C air into the room while gaming.

I've not run the 7701 for long enough yet to give an decent judgement on it. Initial thoughts are that is significantly quieter regarding hum and hiss and it is certainly well made with a nice remote. I didn't finish rebuilding it last night, got to midnight and got it in a state that allows it to work and called it quits. Got to wait till gone 7 tonight before I'm back from work to finish the job.

It's a fair bit bigger than the old SR even though it handles less of the load. (weighs 100g more too)
 
How does all the equipment operate in terms of interference, do you find any noticeable disadvantages having 'all' that stuff within close proximity?

Cant believe how much the design has changed on the AVR :o
 
Provided there are no ground loops, it is dead silent. The xonar essence in my pc has caused nothing but trouble regarding interference pick up due to a ground loop which I solved with an isolation transformer. The coax digital connection caused it to resurface, which I'm hoping will be solved by changing that out for optical.

Provided you use decent cables and the equipment has adequate noise isolation, you shouldn't run into noise issues. I primarily use BNC terminated coax (image 360 & canford SDV-HD) with phono adaptors as it's got very good performance regarding noise pickup and has minimal losses even up into GHz spectrum. (for HD video transmission via SDI, making it total overkill for audio, but i get short off cuts free from work)
 
I am totally stealing that idea for shelving the devices.
Bolts+washers+nuts+boards?
At least that's what it looks like in the pic, hard to see.
 
Wasn't really my idea to begin with. It's a TNT flexy table. I used M16 1metre threaded bars, 4x M16 dome nuts for feet and the rest you know. (nuts, metal washers and rubber washers) Due to the height, to stop skew and wobble towards the top you have to do the nuts up extremely tight.


 
Changed the drive unit in the sub for a SEAS L26ROY D1001.


A few hours work this afternoon to modify the cabinet to fit it in and...
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First thing I've noticed is that it is much tamer between 40-70Hz vs the old one making it sound much tighter, integrating with the main speakers better than it did previously. Definitely seems to drop lower too. Only issue I have now is that the surround stands so far proud that it's got 1/2" of breathing room.

The whole hifi home cinema is coming together beautifully. That AV7701 has been fantastic, a huge improvement over the old SR4200 receiver. (to answer Mr Kambo's question, it remains cool even after being left on all day) All I'm left to finish is some better in ceiling speakers for rear effects and figure out if it's worth re-adding a centre channel or continuing to run without one. (finding one to match these tannoys will be difficult)
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Small update. Made two shelves to go under the TV which can store the rather rapidly growing bluray/dvd collection. Local hardwood timber specialist always has nice cuts for pretty decent prices. The top shelf is alder and the bottom one is ash. Once sanded through the grades (40 up to 180) they were treated to several coats of osmo polyx oil. I'm just starting to make progress on slowly making my way through the same process on my hi-fi rack shelving as I don't like the current finish.

The VHS is in place as I'm transferring some of our old tapes to file.

 
haha that's it man, cram it in :D I used to be in a small room but I really managed to stuff the tech gear in it :D

Love those speakers.
 
When I used to work for Rogers we did a lot of business with Seas. They're Spanish, IIRC, and we used them to make our LS1 (very budget speaker) drivers. They used to arrive on palettes. They were one of the few speakers that we did not make from scratch. Good, though. I used to have their catalogue so I could order whatever I wanted direct from them with our main orders.

Sometimes I miss all of my old Rogers stuff. Then I realise how much it would cost to replace :D

I have a cinema surround now all based on Scandyna and valve amps.
 
Put the brother labeller to use in my room today and finally labelled all of the MDU outputs. Slightly annoying spacing between 6 & 7 as I had to build it in two 195mm labels as the max label length is 300mm and the MDU strip is 390mm long.


Need some flexible tape and I can label all of the signal cables too as they are a real rats nest.
 
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