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| Welcome | Member Introduction Greetings from UKDiscuss Greetings from UK in the General Shack Area forum; Greetings from UK Hi folks, This is me in mugshot mode: Me Optimized 2.JPG Bit of a passport photo, that one... Glad ...  |
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 10-22-06, 01:25 PM
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| Greetings from UK Hi folks, This is me in mugshot mode: Me Optimized 2.JPG Bit of a passport photo, that one...  Glad to join you all - I'm building/have built a 5.1 system with Linn kit, and I'm getting interested in room tuning, bass traps, and all that stuff (it sounds a bit cheaper than buying more hardware). Current system (all in black, except TiVo & Sky+): Linn Unidisc SC - CD/DVD/SACD/MP3 + Pre amp Linn Pekin - tuner Linn AV5125 - 5 channel amp Linn Akurate 212 - fronts Linn Trikan - centre Linn Katans - rear Linn Afekt - sub Loewe Aconda 32" CRT Loewe VCR  SqueezeBox Sennheiser 650 headphones TiVo Sky+ Old Technics record deck  Old Technics casette deck  I've still got the Linn Classik Movie Di that I upgraded from - it's also black. I don't think I'll get much more use from it, so I'm open to offers within the UK. The next job is to go active with the Akurate 212s, and/or replace the Trikan centre and/or Afekt sub. Then think about HD - trouble is, the Loewe has such a good picture I'm loath to replace it with a flatscreen... Ah well, I'll burn that bridge when I come to it  Dave | |||
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| 10-22-06, 04:45 PM
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soon... one day soon... one day...  This is the Initial 'Test it an see if it all works together' configuration: Initial Test Setup.jpg Loewe VCR sideways on by the side of the TV, SqueezeBox on the other side, Classik Movie Di (not in use) sitting on sub; in cabinet: AV 5125 amp top left, TiVo bottom left, Unidisc SC top right, Sky+ & Sky bottom right; under right speaker: 6-way AV switch, Pekin tuner, Hitachi HT-5500 Mk II tuner (for comparison). The Hitachi HT-5500 Mk II tuner is also surplus to requirements now, so I'm open to offers. The rears are a pair of Katans, due to be rewired with QED Silver Anniversary cable: Katan Rear 1.jpg It all works OK now, so there's just some rearranging and rewiring to do before moving on... Last edited by Dave Lorde : 10-22-06 at 05:12 PM. | |||||
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| 10-22-06, 07:26 PM
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| Re: Greetings from UK Welcome Dave, I've started to work from home and pieced together some old kit (B&W speakers, Marantz amp and Lua cdp) into a background system. I started looking at combined CD/HD/Internet radio systems - finished up ordering a Squeezebox. Looking forward to listening to the BBC through this system when it arrives! | |||
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| 10-23-06, 04:07 AM
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| Re: Greetings from UK You'll find the Squeezebox sounds surprisingly good with internet radio, and excellent with a good bandwidth station (e.g. Paradise Radio). For most BBC stations you'll need the AlienBBC plug-in. The only drawback I find is that run wireless, the Squeezebox can occasionally suffer from drop-outs - not Squeezebox's fault, just wireless networking fallibility. Probably best run via a dedicated server and something like HomePlug mains ring Ethernet. | |||
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