Though you appear to be in Europe, I’ve lived in or near all the places listed on your bus placard. Does it hold special significance for you?
My kingdom for your vinyls.
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My setup
McIntosh MX 122
McIntosh MC 205
Roon Nucleus
Sonos Connect Wyred 4 Sound
KEF Blades
KEF Reference 4C
KEF LS50 Rears
Dual SVS SB 16’s
Chord Qutest
Bunch of Sonos Gear
iFi PowerStations
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Lovely speakers !
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That is so great to hear that some one really knows these places. I have to admit that we have never been there. We love antiques. So when we saw this placard (it is actually an original celluliod placard used on buses in those times) at an antique dealer in France we just need to have it. So now it is in Germany. The placard seems to be well traveled 
I really love the clean set-up!
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I just hung up a couple of beautiful absorption panels on the first reflection points on my ceiling. The improvements to the sound are immense. I was so excited about it that I wanted to post a photo of the system here. I’ve been waiting until I finished the whole-house remodel we’ve been doing since we moved into the place at the end of 2015. My wife has refused me to post our somewhat-under-construction living room here before it gets the remodel treatment. Ugh. I can’t complain (she let me hang two huge, 2-inch thick, hendecagram-shaped panels on our livingroom ceiling), but that’s what I’m doing here anyway.
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I guess you will need to PM the photo to everyone active on this discussion 
And please, don’t worry we are all sworn to secrecy.
“hendecagram-shaped” what a tease, come on, who doesn’t enjoy a little audiophile porn?
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My humble contribution;
As per signature, I have a very compact HP260g3 which is basically the same spec (including chipsets) as a 7th gen i3 NUC, except i have a 7130U rather than 7100, so a little bit more horsepower under the hood. Has 8GB of RAM and a 256gb Corsair NVMe PCIe SSD. I have used the bios to turn off all unused devices (doesn’t have wifi to worry about anyway), so keeps roon’s attached to core screen nice and clean.
System runs into the asynchronous USB Input of a Peachtree nova 125 amp and via some cables into a pair of Monitor Audio Studio 20SE. Now some 25 years old and still some of the most ruthlessly revealing yet delightfully musical speakers I’ve heard. They have definitely kept up with the high resolution generation and the mild warmth the Peachtree adds balances the whole system out to as close to neutral as I’ve ever heard in my own home.
Also have a couple of google home speakers that I occasionally send to.
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Alright. I took low-light photos to hide the dinginess. The light stripe going down the middle is the drywall patching that was done after the wall dividing the space in two was removed. The orange thing is a Jon Risch DIY design absorption panel that used to stand up, but is now mounted horizontally on French cleats. It will be replaced with a nicer panel when the room is finished.
The wife doesn’t like the color of the ceiling panels, but instead of replacing the speaker grille cloth, I’ll just make two more and try to sneak the old ones onto a wall. I’m sure she’ll draw the line there, but we don’t know our limits unless we test them, friends.
Gear: DeVore Fidelity O/96; VTL ST-85 amp; Lamm LL2.1 preamp; PS Audio DirectStream DAC; Rega P-25 w/ Clearaudio Maestro Wood cart.; Musical Fidelity X-LPS v3 phono; ROCK NUC with attached USB storage (in the basement).
As I mentioned above, the addition of the ceiling absorption panels improved the sound significantly: more stable (?) imaging; deeper soundstage; clarity/detail; more “refinement” to the sound. The latter two improvements, I believe, are due to the reduction of reflected/“room” sound - more of the direct sound noticed by the old brain.
I am stoked, and I want to keep adding absorption until the room sounds dead, then back it off. However, the ceiling panels are making the wife nervous. I gotta figure that angle out before I start going crazy. I suggested making panels in the shapes of geometric flowers with different colors of speaker grille cloth, but that was a mistake. I decided to shut up about it. I’ll approach that hill again much later.
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As an Angeleno your roller sign intrigued me.
Wow!! That is phantastic. Thanks so much for making the effort of searching for this.
Your acoustic treatment looks so much better than the ‘Rockwool wrapped in plastic’ vibe going on in my place right now 
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i remember those speakers, and ruthlessly revealing is an apt description. IIRC, one could fill the base with sand/shot, etc., which in my experience helped tame them a bit. glad to hear they work well with the Nova.
gorgeous system, and the orange works IMHO.
Indeed you can fill the bottom, but I find the inertness of the cabinet takes away a little bass bloom and makes the low end a tad dry.
Overall in my system they sound balanced, clean, smooth and so open it’s like lifting a veil from the music. Little I’d change
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That’s where the really good heirloom quality stuff is 
Thanks much. I like the orange, too, but the panels are getting old, and they’re a bit DIY-looking (jute cover material, unevenly puffy). Rigid insulation, and real speaker grille cloth make for a much nicer-looking panel. My plan for that wall (behind the system) is to put in two or three panels with custom printed artwork that continues the view that can be seen through the bay window to the left (as seen from the listening position). I’d like to mount the turntable on the wall, but that probably wouldn’t fit with the simple aesthetic we’re going for in our remodel (the wall would end up busy-looking).
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The only correct way to mount a turntable shelf, provided that the shelf is attached directly to the studs. Better that any and all audio racks regardless of cost.
That’s the word on the street. It’s my understanding that Rega 'tables benefit particularly from it.