Showing (off) your Roon setup - description and photos [2021 .. 2022]

Those certainly are gorgeous speakers! Can I ask - why would you bother with the smaller speakers? I assume it’s for the but then again why not run to output through a dac into your main setup?

I just ask as this speakers looks fantastic I would want to run everything though them😃

It’s for the simple reason that I don’t want to use my tubes for series and movies, hence the dedicated KEF speakers and an audio/video receiver. :slight_smile:

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Tube amp was a custom built by amp maker, Eric Mcchason in Sydney :slight_smile: wish had the skill to make one though…
Next to Sonnet is SPL Phonitor X and is headphone amp.
Bottom shelf from left to right, DIY Raspberry Pi streamer and below tha is Topping DX7 Pro, DAC Headphone amp. Vincent Pho-8 Phono Preamp.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Decided to share after enjoying this thread for so long.

Speakers are Dali rubicon 6.
Power amp is Classe CA3200.
I then have a locally built pre amp ( Valve Audio Black Widow) which has a custom installed HT bypass (so when it is off one of the inputs becomes passive fixed out put).
Dac is audiogd R8mk2
Streamer is a raspberry pi (with ropieeXL of course😀) with a dual output LPS that feeds pi and the media converter (soon to have a pi2aes added)

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Streamer set up

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I think I found a fellow fan of Ubiquiti! Dream Machine, I see!

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Do You also use the Sonos (Amp), seen in the corner, as an input ?
Any difference is SQ ?

Thanks,
LD

Keep it simple.
Roon Server on Mac Mini M1 via Gustard U16 to Genelec 8351A.

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The Sonos connect is used for my outside area, I love Sonos for background or social music I have a few around the house.

I have gone down a bit of a rabbit hole for streamers with the liners power supply and Fiber converter but I think it has made a meaningful difference.

So the short answer is I suspect the Sonos will defiantly degrade sq in a critical session but for social and background the convenience is fantastic

Love how simple this looks

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Dali makes great music! Enjoy.

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My wife and I went to buy new speakers this time last year and the Accord Essence were one of three or four speakers my dealer suggested. I thought they were stunningly good looking, and the dealer said I would like the performance a lot. My wife did not like the grilles, don’t know why, and chose Wilson Sabrina.

The great Oscar Wilde once said: “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Just kidding though! :crazy_face: Sabrina’s are very lovely speakers aswell. As long as you are enjoying the hobby.

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Oscar Wilde said a lot of things, but he ended up in Reading Gaol and soon after he was dead.

I got a major benefit from moving to a much smaller listening space and listening almost nearfield. The speakers are only about 2.5m apart and I stick to the Wilson recommended 1.25 times away, just over 3m. The walls were acoustically treated with a triple layer board before a wavy grey silk paper was applied. I switch between using Roon to Innuos 2.0.

There is a second system in the ceiling in the music room. It is also in other rooms, including for the TV in an array of 6 speakers forming a cinema system. (They are also lights. The black holes are lights that are due in the next few weeks.) I can send the sound from the TV via bluetooth direct, which is useless and out of sync, so I bought an Apple TV and send sound to the speaker/lights via Airplay. The speaker/lights have Amazon Music built in (also Tidal and Spotify), but I often use them with Roon via Airplay. I can also play Innuos 2.0 through the ceiling via uPnP. The Amazon and Innuos streams operate at up to 24/192 (the limit of the DACs in the speaker/lights) and the wireless streaming is faultless thanks to Ubiquiti access points, there is one on the ceiling in the photo below.

I was going to do a wall mounted cinema system with Devialet Reactors, which also have Roon inside, but even through my wife uses Reactor with Roon she did not want them on the wall.

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That looks like a very nice listening room. It’s true that the smaller the room (to a certain degree) the “easier” it is to fine tune it sonically.

Also your ceiling speakers are a very nice way to introduce multi room audio. Looks very slick aswell!

I’m more concerned about midrange and top-end detail without the speakers being bright or fatiguing. The Wilson do that and I have a pair of Raidho that are also excellent in that that regard, but no bass below about 80-100hz. They need a sub. I think the Accord Essence would have worked in this small room as well because they have a very similar driver configuration to Wilson Sabrina. Both are very easy to drive.

I tried a pair of Focal Diablo Utopia Colour EVO and found them etched and quite unpleasant after a while.

The ceiling speaker/lighting system is programmed as groups. Airplay allows me to play music from my Roon library, but normally I use Alexa and it plays from Amazon HD.

what are these light speakers?

A new product launched in the UK in May. I’m sure I mentioned it before. The sound side was designed by Lawrence Dickie (former design head of B&W and founder/designer of Vivid speakers). We were doing a substantial rebuild and I was more concerned about lighting at the time as we had to decide on a wiring plan. The lighting is as clever as the sound. www.zuma.ai

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ah yes, i remember now.