I'm gettin' there

EndersShadow
EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
edited March 2014 in The Clubhouse
So finally got my office system somewhat pieced together and thought I would share a few pics. I have all the power cables running through the cable management in the rack and nothing but the signal cables are outside. The IC's are routed as best they can be given the situation.

EVERYTHING in the office is connected to the APC unit and I still have room for more if I wanted. That was the last piece of gear I was looking for. I picked it up for 80 bucks locally earlier this week and couldn't be happier.

The amp's location must be up that high as it will only fit there due to its depth and the depth needed for Dougs cables pigtails. I actually kinda like it that high up. Lets me isolate it from any other signal cables easier.

I will try to get some better pictures tomorrow, but its late and both my wife and daughter are asleep and keeping the lights on to take pics would wake them up.

Also note that I ended up placing the TT on the lower shelf. Not sure if it will stay there as I would like to mount it above the computer on a custom bracket possibly.

**Please Note** I plan to do better with the speaker cables but currently they are not long enough to reach my left speaker without running it like I did. I also plan to space them out wider as I have the room and toe them in slightly as well as add back the spikes I took off as I didnt want to spike them till I had a better idea where they were going.

The Chain:
Digital Source: Computer via Black Cat Veloce Coaxial cable to Cambridge Audio DacMagic w/ Pangea Powersupply
Analog Source: Project Debut III
Pre Amp: Sunfire TGP-II
Power Amp: Parasound HCA-750ii
Speakers: Polk RTA 11TL
Speaker Cables: Douglass Connection 9 gauge demo set
Interconnects: Douglass Connection demo's
Power Conditioning: APC H15

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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,536
    edited March 2014
    Nice! Here I thought I was the only white debut III owner in these parts. Love the sign!
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited March 2014
    Nice and neat. Looks good Enders!!
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,671
    edited March 2014
    Those rta's look sexy :) nice system sir
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2014
    Very Nice!
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2014
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Offtopic...what PC case is that beauty to the side of the rack ? I'd love something like that for my living room...
    That loos like an Antecedent case to me, they've made several with that look over the years.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    That loos like an Antecedent case to me, they've made several with that look over the years.

    I musta not hit submit last night lol......

    Its a Antec P182 in gunmetal. I love it because it paired with my Noctua fans are dead silent up until about 1cm from the case.

    If you are looking for a great case to keep things quiet... yeah Antec's Performance series is where it is at.

    I also added layers of Acoustimat to the cabinet as well for additional dampening and have been slowly moving to a mostly passive system (GPU) with fans on a automatic fan controller programmed to keep it at certain temps within the case.

    Makes for a very nice and quiet system.
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  • stretchl
    stretchl Posts: 1,334
    edited March 2014
    I like all the blue lights. :)
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited March 2014
    Looks good! The blue lights make it.
    Much cleaner than what i have right now. Mines as dirty as Kim kard due on part to having the Amp back in the picture as I'm trying to sell it.

    Get more **** on your walls. They look naked!
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited March 2014
    By the way....your top pic looks like your desk is tweaked something hard. Hope its just an illusion. :P
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2014
    It looks great! But what can you actually hear when you're sitting at the desk? Those towers aren't exactly near field monitors. Most of the sound is going past you.

    I have some KLH 17s (a large vintage bookshelf) on my side desk with a vintage receiver and a Technics TT and CDP attached that I sometimes use in my office, but I find that I need to sit almost SIX feet back to actually hear stereo from the speakers. Any closer when listening to vinyl, sucks. The field collapses!

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,008
    edited March 2014
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Looking carefully...I'd say the photo taker was tweaked...the speakers aren't level either...I thing Ender was kinda leaning or his camera was...lol

    Good possibility....or that floor in his new house was put in by the same dudes who worked on the set of the old Batman series.

    Looks nice Dan, but I'll echo CNH's comments on the sound going pass you, unless you like catching it off the rear wall....and....what Mancave isn't complete without a naked picture of somebody ....and a bar ?
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited March 2014
    I too would like to hear about the speaker placement as I would maybe like to re-arrange my computer room a bit but with all the equipment and 3,000 lp's and a couple thousand cd's along with 2-300 books my choices are limited and I don't want to get everything moved and then find out the sound sucks :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,983
    edited March 2014
    cnh wrote: »
    It looks great! But what can you actually hear when you're sitting at the desk? Those towers aren't exactly near field monitors. Most of the sound is going past you.
    Indeed.... I was thinkin' that he should have 'em up on that desk, toed in a little... like big headphones ;-)

    I have some KLH 17s (a large vintage bookshelf) on my side desk with a vintage receiver and a Technics TT and CDP attached that I sometimes use in my office, but I find that I need to sit almost SIX feet back to actually hear stereo from the speakers. Any closer when listening to vinyl, sucks. The field collapses!

    I like the vintage, venerable (and HF-challenged) original AR-3 nearfield (FWIW).


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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    mrbiron wrote: »
    Looks good! The blue lights make it.
    Much cleaner than what i have right now. Mines as dirty as Kim kard due on part to having the Amp back in the picture as I'm trying to sell it.

    Get more **** on your walls. They look naked!

    By the way....your top pic looks like your desk is tweaked something hard. Hope its just an illusion. :P
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Looking carefully...I'd say the photo taker was tweaked...the speakers aren't level either...I thing Ender was kinda leaning or his camera was...lol
    tonyb wrote: »
    Good possibility....or that floor in his new house was put in by the same dudes who worked on the set of the old Batman series.

    LOL… yeah, I took the pics about 11:30 with my kid asleep about 10 feet behind me and my wife knocked out as well. I didn’t have time to really ensure the camera & tripod were level lol….

    Its all level, just the tripod wasn’t lol…
    cnh wrote: »
    It looks great! But what can you actually hear when you're sitting at the desk? Those towers aren't exactly near field monitors. Most of the sound is going past you.

    I have some KLH 17s (a large vintage bookshelf) on my side desk with a vintage receiver and a Technics TT and CDP attached that I sometimes use in my office, but I find that I need to sit almost SIX feet back to actually hear stereo from the speakers. Any closer when listening to vinyl, sucks. The field collapses!

    cnh
    tonyb wrote: »
    Looks nice Dan, but I'll echo CNH's comments on the sound going pass you, unless you like catching it off the rear wall....and....what Mancave isn't complete without a naked picture of somebody ....and a bar ?
    starkiller wrote: »
    I too would like to hear about the speaker placement as I would maybe like to re-arrange my computer room a bit but with all the equipment and 3,000 lp's and a couple thousand cd's along with 2-300 books my choices are limited and I don't want to get everything moved and then find out the sound sucks :)


    So fella’s, I agree with all your comments. The speaker are nearfield and not setup to listen to when sitting at my desk……

    But this isn’t “it”, hence the title “I’m getting there”…. I have some idea’s on how I want to set things up in the future, and normally I will be listening at the halfwall (see pics), so I am normally going to be 8 feet back or more. I also don’t have the speakers laid out perfectly at this point.

    The end game is to replace the 23” monitor I have now with something like a 46” TV wallmounted and keep the 23” monitor to mount to the sidewall on a articulation mount so I can pull it about 5” from my face while sitting in a recliner at the back wall, which isn’t “really” the backwall.

    Here are some more pics of the setup during the day so you can see things better.

    Looking at it from hallway with the master behind

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    Here is the opening behind the half-wall

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    And here are some additional pictures of the rack in the daylight. I am most proud of the cable management.

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    And because someone asked, here is a better pic of the computer :smile:.

    If your nice I might even take some nudies of the inside later :biggrin:

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,008
    edited March 2014
    Nice pics Dan, but I digress....would much prefer the desk on the half wall. Why ?

    So when you read comments by F1NUT or George Grand you can spit coffee over that wall onto unsuspecting people below.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    tonyb wrote: »
    Nice pics Dan, but I digress....would much prefer the desk on the half wall. Why ?

    So when you read comments by F1NUT or George Grand you can spit coffee over that wall onto unsuspecting people below.

    That would work great actually as its laminate rather than carpet below...

    Plus I could look down at all my guests like I am a king on high when they enter my house.....

    HMMMM...............................
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    @mrbiron:

    I will get LOTS more crap on my walls, but I am taking it step by step.

    Thinking about some small floating shelves to show off my Halo stuff, and of course leaving room for some sound panels in the room.

    @Skip, hadn't thought of that. Will have to check it out. I will say the system downstairs is VERY easy to here up here and quite loud.
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  • czarodzi
    czarodzi Posts: 38
    edited March 2014
    How is the soundstage from the desk chair? It must sound like you're on stage between the musicians!
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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited March 2014
    czarodzi wrote: »
    How is the soundstage from the desk chair? It must sound like you're on stage between the musicians!


    I have my 11T's in almost the exact setting, though I think I may be sitting a bit farther back, and that is exactly how it can sound. Right in the middle of the soundstage, still with surprising depth.

    But I roll back quite a bit to sit, relax, and listen with any amount of critical ears.

    I have built three rigs in that Antec.... highly recommended, especially for a PC-based listening situation.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    11tsteve wrote: »
    I have my 11T's in almost the exact setting, though I think I may be sitting a bit farther back, and that is exactly how it can sound. Right in the middle of the soundstage, still with surprising depth.

    But I roll back quite a bit to sit, relax, and listen with any amount of critical ears.

    I have built three rigs in that Antec.... highly recommended, especially for a PC-based listening situation.

    I plan on getting some sort of chair/recliner/lovseat to put on the halfwall when I am "really" listening.

    I am still playing with apps on my Android for controlling XBMC so I can control the music without getting up. I can also just use the keyboard and mouse since they are wireless, but the phone option just would be a bit easier since the screen is not easily readable at that distance.....
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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited March 2014
    that would be so much easier than the 6000 playlists I have been building in Jriver :-)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    11tsteve wrote: »
    that would be so much easier than the 6000 playlists I have been building in Jriver :-)

    Doesnt JRiver have a remote app for iPhone and Android?
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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited March 2014
    I guess I don't know... I haven't gotten that far in my exploration. Sometimes I miss out on a lot of little details because I get excited by the bigger picture.


    yes it does... Gizmo?
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited March 2014
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    Doesnt JRiver have a remote app for iPhone and Android?

    Yes it does and works fine on IPad and IPhone
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    11tsteve wrote: »
    I guess I don't know... I haven't gotten that far in my exploration. Sometimes I miss out on a lot of little details because I get excited by the bigger picture.
    yes it does... Gizmo?
    brgman wrote: »
    Yes it does and works fine on IPad and IPhone

    There ya go.

    You got an app to save your eyesight and keep you from having to create 50 million playlists....
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Sigh no raw naked PCB...guess it's off to a computer part website for my fix...lol

    I think I'm gonna track down a P182 case for my living room machine. It's a tame C2Q machine...still got lots of life in her, just a crappy case. My dedicated gaming rig...is no silent wonder...never will be, massively overclocked SLI beast.

    I will get them to you tomorrow. Need to shine her up first lol.....
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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited March 2014
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    There ya go.

    You got an app to save your eyesight and keep you from having to create 50 million playlists....
    Thanks for the info. Learning is good. And I have done virtually nothing to integrate my droid into life. Apparently, I should stop ignoring my phone.
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  • WLDock
    WLDock Posts: 3,073
    edited March 2014
    Nice setup, enjoy it! Makes me dream of the day I get my music networked, system on every floor, and maybe even build a desktop. The last rig I built was back in '06...single core.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited March 2014
    WLDock wrote: »
    Nice setup, enjoy it! Makes me dream of the day I get my music networked, system on every floor, and maybe even build a desktop. The last rig I built was back in '06...single core.

    Its honestly not that hard. Give me a call and we can discuss your "options". Very easy to do this on a budget.

    Literally get your music on a computer, buy a Squeezebox Classic (found for ~150 on ebay) and you've got a pretty good start for your system. With your Pioneer you got IIRC you can actually use it instead of the Squeezebox IIRC, so its even CHEAPER!

    I can help you get there. I've already helped Jeff (indyhawg) and Jonathan (bored184) and Travis (trav0810) get started and they are all loving it :smile:.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited March 2014
    That's a beautiful set up man. Congrats! That looks a lot like my component rack. Is that a Bell-o? And a nice set of cans can keep you happy at the desk, if you're not able to sit back in comfort on a nice recliner.
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