Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
It's been a year and a half that i have resisted doing this ...
Some of you may or may not know, my other hobby is Hifi and of course the music to play on it ...
There are a few of us audiophiles (audiophools?? ) here as some of the membership here came across from some of the hifi fora that I am a member of.
I thought it about time we had a thread for sharing our other hobby through the medium of this hobby ... ie A hifi photo gallery or as i have called it "The Show off your HiFi Thread"
So here is mine
Electricity
It has its own dedicated mains circuit with a socket for each speaker, one for the pre amp and one for the linn majik. The TV, blu-ray, wii and mini pc (hidden behind the tv) are fed by a Belkin Pure AV mains conditioner (bottom left of stand - the silver thing)
All the mains cables are Mark Grant dsp2.5 cables apart from the bluray which is a dsp1.0
Audio Sources
The linn majik dsi (top right of the rack) is the hub of the system, it is connected by LAN to the mini PC (hidden behind the tv) for streaming files up to 24/192. The blu-ray player is connected into one of its digital coax inputs for playing cds as well as for the sound from dvds/blurays.
The mini pc is also connected to it via a usb external soundcard and coax into one of its digital inputs for playing the sound from spotify etc (you can see the soundcard on top of the majik, its the white thing on the left)
The current turntable is the Pioneer P600x with a phono pre amp made by Paul Lange (hidden behind the flower pot, sorry Paul ) the turntable is as standard and is currently sporting a ortofon ff10xe cart
Video sources
The Sony BDS550 and mini pc are both connected to the Panasonic TH37PX80 tv via HDMI
We also have a wii
Amps and speakers
My Pre-amp (top left of rack) is a custom made grounded grid valve pre made by Anthony Mathews of Tube Distinctions to my specs ...
The Speakers are fully active Adam Tensor Epsilons ie they have amps built in to them, one for each driver. they are tuned very slightly to suit my room/tastes to roll off the highs and lows very slightly ...
Cables
All interconnects both digital and analogue are Mark Grant G1000HD's and as i said the mains cables are also Mark Grant
The rack is a Ikea 'Lack' tv stand that cost £40
So who's else has a nice hifi... feel free to share it in this thread
Some of you may or may not know, my other hobby is Hifi and of course the music to play on it ...
There are a few of us audiophiles (audiophools?? ) here as some of the membership here came across from some of the hifi fora that I am a member of.
I thought it about time we had a thread for sharing our other hobby through the medium of this hobby ... ie A hifi photo gallery or as i have called it "The Show off your HiFi Thread"
So here is mine
Electricity
It has its own dedicated mains circuit with a socket for each speaker, one for the pre amp and one for the linn majik. The TV, blu-ray, wii and mini pc (hidden behind the tv) are fed by a Belkin Pure AV mains conditioner (bottom left of stand - the silver thing)
All the mains cables are Mark Grant dsp2.5 cables apart from the bluray which is a dsp1.0
Audio Sources
The linn majik dsi (top right of the rack) is the hub of the system, it is connected by LAN to the mini PC (hidden behind the tv) for streaming files up to 24/192. The blu-ray player is connected into one of its digital coax inputs for playing cds as well as for the sound from dvds/blurays.
The mini pc is also connected to it via a usb external soundcard and coax into one of its digital inputs for playing the sound from spotify etc (you can see the soundcard on top of the majik, its the white thing on the left)
The current turntable is the Pioneer P600x with a phono pre amp made by Paul Lange (hidden behind the flower pot, sorry Paul ) the turntable is as standard and is currently sporting a ortofon ff10xe cart
Video sources
The Sony BDS550 and mini pc are both connected to the Panasonic TH37PX80 tv via HDMI
We also have a wii
Amps and speakers
My Pre-amp (top left of rack) is a custom made grounded grid valve pre made by Anthony Mathews of Tube Distinctions to my specs ...
The Speakers are fully active Adam Tensor Epsilons ie they have amps built in to them, one for each driver. they are tuned very slightly to suit my room/tastes to roll off the highs and lows very slightly ...
Cables
All interconnects both digital and analogue are Mark Grant G1000HD's and as i said the mains cables are also Mark Grant
The rack is a Ikea 'Lack' tv stand that cost £40
So who's else has a nice hifi... feel free to share it in this thread