Map Your Setup! (It's Time To Get Charty) Thread - Page 2

I'll be posting my new setups as soon as possible. I just need to get some time to the side.

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Originally Posted by soundstige 

This is my current setup. Changes all the time but I really like where it is for the $ I put into it. Bigger triangles = used more often.

 

Nice way to visualize it all! Did you use the same site as most of us?

Here's my new setup. My recent move has put me in a new place that, while tight on space compared to my old place, came with a few perks like a built-in 5.1 system for DVD and TV watching in the living room. I had no room for my turntable in my bedroom setup, so I just migrated it out there, too.

In worse news, my bedroom is now too small to hold everything I wanted it to, so I had to get rid of some musical instruments and an entire rack of Mid-Fi gear. I now have three distinct setups if you count my portables. I also forgot to include the two outdoor speakers that are wired up to the Kawasaki and are out on my deck for entertaining, but they're generic brand and I haven't even bothered to use them yet so I don't feel like going back and putting them on there.

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Originally Posted by soundstige 

Thanks! And no, I just made it in LibreOffice Draw. Very envious of your Koss ESP btw :)

On Linux? I didn't think to make mine in Draw, actually, though I have the program.

My ESP/950 is my second least practical headphone, but I absolutely adore its sound signature. It may be outdated and technically outclassed by similarly-priced competitiors nowadays, but it has such a unique sound that I don't think I could live without it and still enjoy much of my collection.

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Originally Posted by soundstige 

Yes, in Linux :) Interesting comments about the ESP -- what about the sound makes it unique?

The fact that the design of its transducer is radically different in some key areas from Stax means that is has all the general characteristics of great electrostatic headphones (incomprehensible amounts of detail, realistic space and positioning that, while not as wide as some dynamics, is much more accurate, etc.) while also having a touch of a warm sound signature. It's everything I wish my HD600 had been when I bought it. There's no mud in its sound signature, but it's in no way cold and lifeless like, say, the SR009.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 currently with a number of shells (Unity, GNOME 3, LXDE), though on my old netbook I used #! Linux.

In a vain attempt to get this thread going again, I must mention that I no longer have the absolutely horrible L.K.G. Industries PRE600 as my pre-amp.

Here's the revised setup. I also got a new receiver/CD player combo in the living room.

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Originally Posted by obobskivich 

This was taken apart and dispersed across three rooms recently, but here:


The reason for all of the returns is to add additional decoding hardware and features. The audio signal really did go into the A3090, out to the AC500D, process, and return for amplification. This thing was a nightmare to wire up. The "slave" PC had a TV tuner in it as well; monitors were shared via network utilities. "Normal PC Monitors" was four displays before I broke it apart, and I didn't include the expanded view with the wired network and S-AIR distribution system. Oh, forgot to include the presence effects speakers, and the two universal remotes that controlled this.

Do I win?

Obob, I meant to ask you when you posted this why you have two distinct setups running to your different 'stats. Does the Kenwood really work better with your ESP/10?