Ouch, you do have to hand it to them, they know how to hit Dad where it hurts.
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I just finished moving to a new home, and put in a custom-built, custom-sized theater/listening room: acoustic drywall, suspended floor, and six dedicated power circuits. Itâs primarily a listening room, with occasional theater use. The audio path is NUCi8 ROCK (in a separate server room 100 feet away from the listening room)-> Ethernet -> Mytek Manhattan II -> Transparent Opus interconnect -> Audio Research Reference 10 -> Transparent XL interconnect -> Classe CA-M600 monoblocks -> Transparent XL speaker cables -> Wilson Alexx. The rest of the gear is mostly for the 11.1 Dolby Atmos theater experience.
ROCK on the NUC has been very satisfying.
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I would suppose that large screen is needed to project how big your grin is when you are listening to this rig. Really nice, especially with the room.
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At least you know that their children will be exactly the same (or worse) 
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Sloping tops so not available as drinks coasters, too high up when they were tiny and moveable as they are on plastic feet so kept in the bay.
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What are those speakers?
Shahinian Compass.
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Is that a Technics SL7?
Yes. Itâs inside the cupboard now as I rarely listen to vinyl.
With all those records? I had an SL7 a while ago.
I still have mineâŚback in the 80âs I had modified it with a wired remote to Stop, Start and Up/Down But no longer needed that mod so removed it about 20 years ago. Iâve had to replace the P type carts a few times and these get harder to find so have a few in reserve. Currently using a Blue Point & have Grado Black in reserve plus the original cart.
Sadly mine have all broken feet/footers and so Im using Sorbothane pads under the main chassis supported on a slab of granite. Using Emotiva XPS-1 phono pre to my XMC-1. It had several drive belts for the arm motor drive tooâŚhard to find the right sizes. I repair it myself so easy to keep it running.
Doesnât get much play time these days thoâŚ
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I was wondering how you kept it going. I have a picture of mine somewhere, it was in a flat I owned between 1985 and 1989, there were JR149 on the wall.
I nearly bought an sl10 this week because it was so cheap but then I came to my senses 
Wow a bit over the top for the Atom. Bet they sound great though.
Maybe we should start a âshowing off your non roon setupâ 
Core: NUC 8i5 with ROCK
Storage: ReadyNAS 214
Control: iPad
Endpoint 1: Linn Exakt system based around Klimax DSM for sound quality in main listening room (it does have another speaker not shown)
Endpoint 2: NUC 7i3 in Akasa case with ROCK and ATL Power Supply connected by HDMI to Marantz AV Receiver for surround sound in TV room
Endpoint 3: Linn Kiko for convenience in bedroom
Have had Roon for five months and it has transformed my listening. I was not impressed with free trial a little over a year ago, but gave it a second chance with version 1.6. This convinced me that it is the way to go in future. Main advantages for me are integration of Qobuz with local storage, searching/browsing and multi-room operation including surround sound files.
The only irritation is that Roon is reluctant to release control of the DSM if I want to switch to vinyl records or TV sound output.
In an ideal world, Iâd combine the best aspects of systems 1 and 2 to get the benefits of sound quality in surround playback. Unfortunately, the Linn DSM doesnât play surround files despite handling surround by HDMI.
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Did you report this? How about asking support, or a feature request? I donât know if it would be a Linn or Roon issue though. Nice system.
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I have to agree on homeaudiofidelity.com. Whatever Thierry is doing to create his room correction filters makes a huge difference in both my theater and living room systems. -So glad Roon has a convolution engine.
Intel 7i7BNH NUC running ROCK > Meridian 218 > Meridian DSP5200SE speakers
Allo DigiOne Signature > Meridian 568.2mm > Meridian DSP5000.2 speakers
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Many thanks. No, I havenât, yet. Presumed it was something that would get resolved in time, but youâre right, it wonât get on the to do list unless itâs reported.
Iâve had them for over 15 years and got a bargain at the time. With the Atom and a Nap100 I bought cheap, see a theme (?), they sound great.
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