Mr Ed's room and system

On the digi side of life I have an old Rotel CD player that has TDA 1541A chip.
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I have a DAC made with a board from an Ebay seller. It is an ES 9018 chip. Designed by a guy named Wielang ( I think I got the name right) . It's about 6 years old.
Has Cinemag transformers on the output.
I use it for steaming.
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I chronicled a SLOB build here a while back.
I use a Mini DSP to xo and shape it with a Crown CTS 600 amp bridge to mono to power it.
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The slot loaded open baffle uses two Altec 421 8LF drivers. Fills the last bit of bass nicely.
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The room has DIY floor to ceiling bass traps 4 inch rock wool in all 4 corners plus the panel over the center front wall.
Diffusers at 1st reflection on side walls and today I made some quickie stands for two more to place on front wall.
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Back wall has two rock wool panels behind the sofa
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Final shot, I will call it completed till I get some more gear ready.
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Where did you get the gray diffuser panels? They look great.
pare you painting your sub box to match the Altecs? Maybe a lighter gray to match the diffusers?
 
Audionut said:
Where did you get the gray diffuser panels? They look great.
pare you painting your sub box to match the Altecs? Maybe a lighter gray to match the diffusers?
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I bought them six years ago from some guys on DIY audio that were into open baffle stuff.
Oddly enough I saw some pop up in EBay in Europe.
They are styrofoam and I painted them with Kilz grey primer.
If I had another day off I would have tackled painting the sub.
I will pretty soon after my garage is clear from all my remodel stuff.
 
rogerfederer said:
this is the battleship grey paint i used for my cabinets:
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looks like your cabinets have a bit more blue in them
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That's a great idea, I have done two home shops with that and never thought about speaker cabs. It Wil flow out smooth and be a tuff finish.
I do have enough of a couple different grays to cover this. I think I am going with darker shade to give some contrast .
 
I came here from the 2021 thread. Damn that is beautiful - the cost of just that stack of Elna Cerefine caps (well, they weren't as expensive 20 years ago) is simply mind-boggling.
 
A little back story here to start.


I moved from the Austin area to Willis ( Houston area) and we were trying to decide what room to use for my main system. We had three spare bedrooms and were considering removing a wall combining two of them to create a larger space for this.

I kept using a room mode calculator and putting in room dimensions and working with all the options.

At one point I put the dining area dimensions in and it came clear that even though smaller than I hope for by combining two bedrooms it was better suited.

Next I had to sell the wife on it, but really she's pretty on board with audio stuff like this any how.

The issue was a large, very nice and very expensive dinning table set that was waiting to be moved into this space, so the lobbying began... based on the logic that is would get use 3 or 4 holidays a year at best.
Once that was worked through she was on board, a little sad to let go of of nice piece of furniture.

So the adventure began.
 
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mred said:
Oh I would not by those caps at todays prices... heck I might be able to retire off them soon.
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I've got a Dynaco Stereo 35 clone I built eons ago that uses a pair of the dual 100uf / 500V cans in the power supply as well as a couple of unused dual 220uf / 350V cans that I've been saving for the right project.

Had I known at the time (and had the available fundage), I probably would have cleaned out Angela Instruments of their Elna stock when these were discontinued.
 
mred said:
A little back story here to start.


I moved from the Austin area to Willis ( Houston area) and we were trying to decide what room to use for my main system. We had three spare bedrooms and were considering removing a wall combining two of them to create a larger space for this.

I kept using a room mode calculator and putting in room dimensions and working with all the options.

At one point I put the dining area dimensions in and it came clear that even though smaller than I hope for by combining two bedrooms it was better suited.

Next I had to sell the wife on it, but really she's pretty on board with audio stuff like this any how.

The issue was a large, very nice and very expensive dinning table set that was waiting to be moved into this space, so the lobbying began... based on the logic that is would get use 3 or 4 holidays a year at best.
Once that was worked through she was on board, a little sad to let go of of nice piece of furniture.

So the adventure began.
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let me get this straight--your wife let you have the dining room for your listening room and agreed to sell the dining room table/chairs? can we give her some kind of award? :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow :Bow
 
mred said:
On the digi side of life I have an old Rotel CD player that has TDA 1541A chip.
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I have a DAC made with a board from an Ebay seller. It is an ES 9018 chip. Designed by a guy named Wielang ( I think I got the name right) . It's about 6 years old.
Has Cinemag transformers on the output.
I use it for steaming.
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Do you switch between analog out and digital out to the DAC with your Rotel? Or is it purely a transport at this point?
 
mred said:
A little back story here to start.


I moved from the Austin area to Willis ( Houston area) and we were trying to decide what room to use for my main system. We had three spare bedrooms and were considering removing a wall combining two of them to create a larger space for this.

I kept using a room mode calculator and putting in room dimensions and working with all the options.

At one point I put the dining area dimensions in and it came clear that even though smaller than I hope for by combining two bedrooms it was better suited.

Next I had to sell the wife on it, but really she's pretty on board with audio stuff like this any how.

The issue was a large, very nice and very expensive dinning table set that was waiting to be moved into this space, so the lobbying began... based on the logic that is would get use 3 or 4 holidays a year at best.
Once that was worked through she was on board, a little sad to let go of of nice piece of furniture.

So the adventure began.
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Your wife is very accommodating! I know better than to even suggest such a thing.
 
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