Home of the Squeezebox™ & Transporter® network music players.

Go Back   Squeezebox : Community : Forums > User Forums > System Photos
User Name
Password

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 2006-01-07, 11:36
Skunk's Avatar
Skunk Skunk is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kurt Vonnegut's Neighborhood
Posts: 2,364
Skunk is on a distinguished road
Default A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)

Seen here with Jolida 102b and Fostex FE206e:
Attached Images
 
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 2006-01-07, 11:48
Patrick Dixon's Avatar
Patrick Dixon Patrick Dixon is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: UK
Posts: 1,795
Patrick Dixon is on a distinguished road
Default

<Gasps>

If you must stand your speakers on a swivel chair, blue sounds much better.
__________________
www.at-tunes.co.uk
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 2006-01-07, 12:10
Skunk's Avatar
Skunk Skunk is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kurt Vonnegut's Neighborhood
Posts: 2,364
Skunk is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Dixon
<Gasps>
OK. Thanks for the opportunity to retort.

If I were going to re-house the Squeezebox I'd put it in an enclosure that is actually _more_ attractive than the original (v1,2 or 3.

So I choose to decouple rather than rigidly spike them. They do sound better up high. I'm working on front horns. FE series aren't exactly known for shaking the room, and look at the speaker for christ's sake:
Attached Images
 
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 2006-01-07, 20:20
teanau's Avatar
teanau teanau is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 26
teanau is on a distinguished road
Default

my ghetto temporary situation:
axiom m22ti's
axiom ep600 (the neighbours love me)
panasonic sa-xr70
2tb infrant ready nas (serving up the love)

that looks like a beautiful system skunk.
_sam
Attached Images
 
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 2006-01-07, 21:03
nelamvr6's Avatar
nelamvr6 nelamvr6 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New London, CT USA
Posts: 229
nelamvr6 is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Dixon
<Gasps>

If you must stand your speakers on a swivel chair, blue sounds much better.
LOL! I'm partial to green myself!
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 2006-01-08, 05:55
Skunk's Avatar
Skunk Skunk is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kurt Vonnegut's Neighborhood
Posts: 2,364
Skunk is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by nelamvr6
I'm partial to green myself!
Me too. Welcome to the forum.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 2006-01-08, 22:14
bossanova808 bossanova808 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 198
bossanova808 is on a distinguished road
Default

My setup below. We've got a three level house - the main setup is is in the middle (living) level).

I'm using a Rotel pre-amp and power amp (1050) with Sonus faber Conertino Domus speakers (which look way better in real life than this crappy photo!). The SB is at the top of the device pyramid on the lower right shelf.

Veyr nice sounding combination - especially with your more 'musical stuff' like Jazz etc, particularly strong on vocals and with soundstage way bigger than you'd expect from the speaker size.

Downstairs, in the office, I have some Rega Jura speakers which are more suited to your modern stuff - big rock and dancey beats etc, a little less musical, a little more oomph, and with a truly huge soundstage. There are wired to the same amp, and I control the music using Moose.

Whole thing is feeding of an infrant ReadyNAS.

Overall, I'm very very happy with my setups - all the devices offer very good value for money, in particular the SB of course!!
Attached Images
  
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 2006-01-09, 10:19
tyler_durden tyler_durden is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 797
tyler_durden is on a distinguished road
Default Here's mine...

Home made amp and squeezebox. That's it. I removed my CD player and tuner as they are no longer needed.
Speakers not shown are Quad ESL-63s.

TD
Attached Images
 
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 2006-01-09, 11:07
dwc's Avatar
dwc dwc is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 335
dwc is on a distinguished road
Default

Tyler that's a cute/cool amp.

(guess i have to find my camera now)
-Dan
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 2006-01-09, 11:47
tyler_durden tyler_durden is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 797
tyler_durden is on a distinguished road
Default

Thanks! The box used to be a cell phone diversity antenna amplifier housing. I picked it up at a scrap yard for about $15, then did a little finish work and built an amplifier into it. The amp is an LM3886 IC based circuit taken right off the ap note for the IC. It will deliver about 30W per channel. The box is all aluminum, and the amp chips are quite efficient (class B) so the whole thing never even gets warm.

It is small, but quite heavy. I think it weighs around 25 lbs. I sort of overbuilt the power supply with a 330VA transformer and 160,000 uF total capacitance.

I'll have to do something about that volume control knob one of these days...

TD
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 20:40.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.