[NilsTentacles]

 

 

 
 
Current state as of today. Warming up with some Shpongle in the cans.

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

Newest addition to my rig:

Two almost brand new Nubert nuPro A-10

 
Managed to get them for $550 instead of $730
They sound just stellar.
At first I thought I would miss my old subwoofer, but I'm super happy with this 2.0 setup!

 

[scott_d_m]

My new computer rig!
 
11" Macbook Air (New)
Pico amp/dac
PSB M4U 1 (New)
 
So far, I'm quite liking this. The PSB's are taking over from the Sony MDR-7520. I think the Sony's will be going up for sale soon!
 

 

[Greyson]

 

[ohhgourami]

 

Nice chair.

 

[Don Lehrer]

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

 

 

I like your room, that chair looks great.

 

[calipilot227]

 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

My new computer rig!
 
11" Macbook Air (New)
Pico amp/dac
PSB M4U 1 (New)
 
So far, I'm quite liking this. The PSB's are taking over from the Sony MDR-7520. I think the Sony's will be going up for sale soon!
 

 

 
What are those speakers/stands in the background?

 

[autoteleology]

The only camera I have to take the picture with is garbage, but here's a general idea:
 

 

[scott_d_m]

   
What are those speakers/stands in the background?

The speakers are Harbeth P3ES2. I'm not quite sure of the speaker stands but they're your usual metal tube stands.

 

[danL93]

scott_d_m, what's that your Macbook Air is sitting on?
Thanks
 
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  My new computer rig!
 
11" Macbook Air (New)
Pico amp/dac
PSB M4U 1 (New)
 
So far, I'm quite liking this. The PSB's are taking over from the Sony MDR-7520. I think the Sony's will be going up for sale soon!
 
 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

 

 

[scott_d_m]

 

This is actually a neat little find. It's a cutting board with sliding drawers underneath. The drawer on the right is where I keep my 1TB hard drive.
I believe the name of it is "Chef'n"
 
http://www.chefn.com/Product.aspx?id=246

 

[MARK916]

Brought back out to update the OS from Windows XP to Windows 7. Replaced the IDE hard drive with a SSD drive. She's slow, 2 gigs of ram maxed out, but it's stable, allows me to stream from my NAS drive.
 
Yes that is a Sovtek 6922 tube built on a mother board.  AOpen AX4B 533 Tube Motherboard to be exact "as far as I know, this was only done by the engineers at AOPEN, they made 2 types of these boards, both AMD and Intel based. I have yet to see the AMD board" Another Intel P4 based board was produced for the Japanese market, slightly different sound output capacitors on that board"
 
Its just a pre-amp, doesn't really get hot, just nice and warm. The motherboard is a outdated Intel P4 533mhz chip

 

 

 

 
set board.  I feed this into my 6AQ5 single ended headphone amp with NOS tubes.
 
It was a really nice attempt at the time, the engineers went with quality capacitors, but they used the Realtek AC97 codec which isn't that great. From the tube output, it's only 2 channel, the board will do 5.1 out the optical output, but it takes a diffrent route not through the 6922 tube.
 
The sound subsystem of the motherboard consists of:

1. Realtek ALC650 AC'97 codec; 
2. Vacuum tube (twin triode) Sovtek 6922 (Made in Russia) which can be replaced with any similar one; 
3. ELNA capacitors in the power circuitry of the tube; 
4. CARDAS copper cables between the amplifier and connectors; 
5. REL MultiCap capacitors in the sound section; 
6. VISHAY resistors.

 

[danL93]

Great discovery, looks like an awesome space saver, might but just what im after. Thanks

 

[pervysage]

 

 

 

 

 

[J.Pocalypse]

I'd love to see a shot of that computer case and the Fireflies (on) with your room lights off.