Honestly, I have no experience with room treatments (WAF), but I think good room treatments and DSP must be audio Walhala!
If you have a partner that allows some room treatments, I would go that way first… and finetuning with Dirac/HAF/REW-convolution…
Oh, and allways get your speaker placement right on the first place…
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Your setup is nice, your dog is beautiful…
Nice setup. If I recall you had large ATC’s at one time. I like the rennovation you did on that old building - was it a barn before? Simply beautiful with those large windows. Scotland is one of if not THE most beautiful places in the world. Rough weather though!
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Goodness me! Easily the most inspired set up I’ve seen.
Do you use the Yamaha CD player’s DAC or just as a transport with the Mytek?
I ask because I’ve been impressed by how Yamaha voices their CD players.
I stream to the SoTM 200 ultra and the Mytek dac is connect to the Yamaha reciever
The server is audioaanzee
The cd player is without dac,(already old)
I also prefer the older Mac Mini’s since they are easier to modify.
I have two of the 2012 Mac Mini’s and have replaced their drives with SSDs and maxed the RAM - so responsive.
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An old bothy I rebuilt in 2000-2012. (v1) Became a fire damaged wreck in March 2012 after a stove fitter (installer error) burned down the house where we lost everything so we rebuilt it to be super insulated, super efficient and zero bills (in effect, v2). I traded possession/media replacement for infrastructure and zero bills, insurance settlement paid off mortgage and debt. Needed a bit of blue sky thinking and embraced a clutter free and mostly material media and physical book-free life. It affected me very deeply, I was a hoarder, this reset that instinct.
I wanted to bulldoze it and build an entirely new structure with entirely modern materials such as smart glass and polycarbonates, steel and resin but there were too many walls remaining up according to the planning office so we had to rebuild the outside to look like it was within reason, the big windows were allowed and inside was up to me… so I went for light, light, light and more light… hard to imagine but the slate floor is under all that and that the new living space is on top of that. I want to do a new build (v3) sometime soon.
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Hi all,
I’ve got my Roon Core on a SSD hard drive linked to a Synology two drive RAID 3TB NAS. This is controlled through a Mac Mini. The main music system is a Naim ND5 XS2 through a NAC122x, NAP150x and Hicap DR power supply to a pair of Focal Aria 926. I’ve then got a Naim Mu-so Qb in my bedroom. Then in the office I’m playing it all through my Mac Mini and a pair of Ruark Mr1 active speakers using the optic link and core audio exclusive mode on Roon.
In case you haven’t noticed I love NAIM! lol
Neil
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I`m also running Roon Core on a Mac mini with 2TB SSD - Endpoint is a Auralic Vega G2.
MCIntosh 8000 - B&W 802 D2
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Wow! Gorgeous room. And two Eames chairs!
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I called my dog Karik after my super CD deck (Linn Karik), her job was to protect it against all comes , however she was. Soppy yellow lab , more likely to lick than bite
Nobody nicked the deck though
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Love that McIntosh gear!
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Plus a bumper rack of headphones it seems.
Bloody amazing ! Next time you go on holiday I could pop over and stay at your place for you and look after your gear 
I stream to the SoTM 200 ultra and the Mytek dac is connect to the Yamaha reciever
The server is audioaanzee
The cd player is without dac,(already old)
Just ordered a new Mac Mini 3.2 GHz 6-Core i7 with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD with a 10 Gigabit Ethernet functionality. It will arrive tomorrow.
I decided against a Roon Nucleus. My Mac Book Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and it definitely needs replacement in the near future. So I’ll transfer my Roon licence to the Mac Mini to run the Roon number crunching and still have enough capacity to do whatever little work needs to be done. Besides, the setup I have with Roon Core running on my Mac Book Pro connected via Cat 7A to my Devialet sounds absolutely sweet and I personally don’t see myself getting into this high-end setup that presumably promises ‘immense improvement’ of sound quality. I am pretty happy with what I have now.
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Here is how my setup looks now, nothing very expensive but I have tried to get the stuff I have to sound as good as possible before upgrading, so lots of smaller tweaks:
And here is schematics:
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That’s an awesome looking setup. “Old fuse box” in your diagram made me laugh out loud 
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