[Oregonian]

Where does the "U" go in your Head-Fi SetUp?

More clearly, where and on what do you sit/sprawl/lie? Several of the stations are at a desk, which to me implies that you listen while sitting on a desk chair at the desk. Often there is a computer at the desk. Does that mean that you work (or play) at the computer while listening? Do you sit with the attentive posture associated with keyboard typing?

Or do you sit on a big armchair, perhaps that reclines and has a footrest?

I have recently changed from listening at my computer desk to listening in an easy chair. I still have a listening station at each place. It is amazing how much better the system at the lounge chair is to listen to than the desk system.

How about you?

Great topic to kick this thread up a notch or 10.
 
I have multiple listening stations - my favorite is below...............its a Pioneer Spec system from 1978 fed by either a Pioneer turntable, Pioneer CD player/recorder (see a theme with my love for Pioneer?) or my iPhone 5 feeding into a NuForce iDo DAC.  Sounds great whether the HE-6's are on my head or my D7000's are there.  Or through the vintage Cerwin Vega speakers. 
 
More posts to come with my other systems - my most comfy has a really nice recliner with, yes, another Pioneer amp feeding my headphones. 
 

 

[Oregonian]

This is my work setup.  Pioneer SA-8800 fed from my Yoga via a NuForce uDac2.  Chair isn't Henry Miller but is special fit to me by our ergonomist. 
 

 

 

[Oregonian]

Last one for now so I don't bore you guys.  This is the recliner view of my SX-1050 fed by either an iPhone 4 through a NuForce iDo DAC or Sony CD player or the TV via the FiiO D3 optical to analog piece I added last night.  Goes into Polk Audio RT35's or headphones via extension cable.  Wife prefers its sound to the Samsung DVD/surround sound system so that will be going away soon. 
 

 

[Anda]

@Oregonian
Thank you for the walkthrough. Love the looks of that Pioneer rack 

 

 

[bbophead]

  Last one for now so I don't bore you guys.  
 

No worries.  If we weren't bored, we wouldn't be accessing this site.

 

[brianbeers]

Ouch my wallet - been spending too much time trolling around here! Today I bid
farewell to the NAD that has treated me so well for over a decade!! I sent it out
with B2M "Its so hard to say goodbye" hahah!  LOVE that amp!  And welcomed in
a new mPRE, MF M1PWR combo.  YAY!  Onward and upward!  Some nice Violectric
gear in the last few pages
 

 

 
Thanks for the inspiration headfiers

 

[Krutsch]

  Ouch my wallet - been spending too much time trolling around here! Today I bid
farewell to the NAD that has treated me so well for over a decade!! I sent it out
with B2M "Its so hard to say goodbye" hahah!  LOVE that amp!  And welcomed in
a new mPRE, MF M1PWR combo.  YAY!  Onward and upward!  Some nice Violectric
gear in the last few pages
 

 

 
Thanks for the inspiration headfiers

 
Nice looking gear! And, Onwards and Upwards! is right, looking at the wood blocks/shims used to provide space for the new gear. 

 
 
EDIT: scratch that last part; I see the stand is unchanged (I thought the little blocks were only in the second photo)

 

[Fireboy]

Mapletreeaudio and Audeze

 

[brianbeers]

krutsh - that monior stand is next on my woodworking list - its functional but prrrretty gnarly lookin haha

fireboy - sick love the yellow chrome n tubes - viablue plug - what kind of cable?

 

[gbremer]

Great Post. Here's mine: Herman Miller (the empty chair, not the IKEA chair that my annoying cat is sleeping in)

I have one of those at work. Great chair but those armrests love to snag headphone cables.

 

[Armaegis]

  Ouch my wallet - been spending too much time trolling around here! Today I bid
farewell to the NAD that has treated me so well for over a decade!! I sent it out
with B2M "Its so hard to say goodbye" hahah!  LOVE that amp!  And welcomed in
a new mPRE, MF M1PWR combo.  YAY!  Onward and upward!  Some nice Violectric
gear in the last few pages
 

 
Can you share any impressions/comparsons of the mPre as DAC?

 

[whirlwind]

Mapletreeaudio and Audeze

I love yellow mad ears  

 

[brianbeers]

armaegis - I'm really not qualified to give impressions of the mPRE as
a DAC... I haven't heard enough of em to give a real comparison.  It
replaced a Schiit Modi, which I enjoyed very much.  I swapped an integrated
for separates as well as the DAC so I'm not really able to pick out how the
DAC alone has changed the sound.  I guess I could fire up the Modi into
the mPRE and compare them that way.  Hopefully I can find time to do
that soon and report back.
 
I will say that from my research, the general consensus was that the DAC
in the mPRE is good... but not great.  Surprisingly its implementation uses
USB BUS power and can benefit from something like the iFi usbpower. 
 
I figured it would be a more than adequate replacement for the Schiit I was
using, and leaves an upgrade path open for something better in the future.
I like the balanced, dual mono preamp design and really the DAC 
and headphone amps are just convenient bonuses.  Hope that helps!

 

[IceClass]

Mapletreeaudio and Audeze

Wow.
That's yellow!
Very nice.

 

[hodgjy]

Just received the LCD-2.2F bamboo. Amp is the TEAC HA-501 and the DAC is the Bifrost Uber.