Some beautiful and original set-ups in this thread!
I'm lucky enough to work from home as a graphic designer, and music production is my hobby.
The room pictured below is my temporary office until a dedicated office and studio is finished this spring (
very excited about that).
I stand while I work, after I realized that I was sitting pretty much all day for a good portion of my adult life aside from my normal exercise (work, then dinner, then some TV or gaming on my PC, then sleep). Then I read a
study that showed bad it is for our bodies, since we weren't designed for it... I'm 41, and want to enjoy my life in good health as long as possible. If I fall when I'm 70, i want to be able to get up and dust myself off.
So after a lot of research and spit-takes when I saw the prices, I bought an Anthro Elevate desk, which is motorized to allow for infinite adjustability. This allows me to sit when I need to (since I have a trick knee that I'm in the process of rehabilitating) and stand the rest of the time.
Not cheap, and I got a bunch of optional add-ons, like an integrated power bar and cable tray, width extensions, a CPU rack for my Mac, etc --- the price of a very good DAC or amp, let's put it that way
--- but it's been a help to my health problems, and I don't feel like a zombie after I finish work.
Desk in it's sitting position:
Desk in it's standing position:
As far as gear, I have my 30" HP monitor on an articulated arm that is being fed by:
My work/music Mac Pro
- 2008 dual 3.2ghz Xeon quad cores, 32 gig RAM, all drive bays full and the empty optical bay hard drive mod applied.
and my gaming PC
i7 960 3.2ghz, Win 7 Pro 64, 6 gigs RAM, two Geforce 470s in SLI
Next to the right leg of the desk you can just make out the LEDs of 2 APC UPS batteries and the huge umbilical I have going for the power, monitor and data cables (I had to buy extra long DVI cables for the desk to be able to go all the way up and still have slack).
On the desktop to the right of the monitor is my old Focusrite Saffire Firewire audio interface (vertical silver box with a white face) that drives some actually OK sounding KRK Rockit 5" active near-field monitors. I recently got an RME Fireface and will be upgrading my monitors and adding a sub once the office remodel is done.
I also use the audio interface to drive my HiFIman HE400s when I'm mixing down my music, and I use a Titanium HD to drive them when I game on my PC.
I might get a desktop amp/DAC for giggles at some point... probably a Schiit Asgard 2 and Bifrost, since they'll match the look of my external backup hard drives perfectly (yeah, I'm a designer, I get weird about stuff like that
).