Wow 2A3 Monoblocks, must have been nice 
Understand that the Alnico gave more low end that helps blending in the mid freq
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Your cabinets look great. Nice skills you have there. I’m decent at the rough carpentry but terrible at the finish work…no patience for the details.
Haha thank you for the compliments on cabinet 
, but I did not built it my self, I am just design the cabinet and supervise the drawing process then have my staffs build it for me 
and yes the finishing do need patience
After the cabinet is done then I do the tuning for dampening and all the wiring
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Nothings ever black and white.
Oh wait………….
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Ill post a few customer system using Roon along with PecanPi Streamer. Sorry I can’t provide too many details as these are not mine.
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which speakers are these w/ the Line Magnetic amp?
They are vintage Sansui
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Wow!
Bloody Wow!
I run a PS Audio P5 and their PPP, so I’ve taken my time to get dedicated mains until today…
It’s just all round better
I’d say best £400 (and more) upgrade I’ve ever done
Have you been watching too many of Paul’s videos on YouTube? (Me too)
Congratulations on the upgrade and the fact that you are enjoying it.
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I do watch him, yes
I’ve had lots of the power plants over the years; P300, P600, 2x PPP and P5
My P5 needed work a few months ago, and my system sounded really flat and lifeless without it (I’d never not used it)
My mate then had dedicated mains put in and was blown away - ‘like having much better speakers and amps’ he enthused
You know the rest… he was right
I’m pleasantly stunned 
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I noticed in one of his videos last week or the week before he was again making that recommendation. He seems to make it at least one a quarter.
Clearly if the equipment is up for it and you can afford it then it’s a great way to go.
I can’t get off the sofa!
Track after track… 
If you haven’t, then do
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My system - 50% vinyl, 50% Roon. Currently used a lot, so not too tidy… 
Amplifier: ModWright Instruments KWI 200
Loudspeakers: Brocksieper Minara
Subwoofer: JL Audio Dominion 110
Turntable: Pro-Ject 2Xperience Acryl with Gold Note Boboli
Roon Nucleus, connected via hiFace DAC (integrated in the amplifier)
I’ll leave out the TV components.
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Vinyl gets my vote!
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Hmm, not a “setup” per se but it is my first system with Roon (I’m on the trial – that’s right, ya’ll are therefore on trial as well!)
I bought a used i3 NUC from the approved list. Version 8 I guess it is, so a few years old. At well under $300 delivered, it came with RAM and SSD. It runs ROCK like a champ and sits next to my router and Synology NAS. I had to buy a $12 keyboard/mouse combo to set up ROCK. That’s the to-my-door price of the NEW keyboard/mouse …
My delivery mechanism is the Bluesound Powernode in the picture. Current “2021” version. This is in the basement, slapped together. Occasionally the Powenode loses the scent but it happens so rarely that I will not bother connecting it to Ethernet here. Speakers are a pair of Epos ES14 painted, on matching stands.
Things I have learned so far:
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My old, bottom-of-the barrel, 1-disk and painfully slow NAS is no problem at all for Roon. Indexing is fast, reindexing is fast, and song selection is fast.
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Roon “sounds” great and I like some of the editing/display features. Others remain a curious disappointment. I am still learning.
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I do not stream but that day is coming because I’ll never be able to afford copies of everything I might want. I already can’t even listen to what I own, so … why own? Can’t believe I just typed that.
Roon’s vaunted “discovery” has never much interested me because I value a bit of curation that’s better offered by a few trusted online resources and personal recommendation. Suggestions based on “partnering agreements” and “if you like this, you’ll surely like this …” leave me skeptical. But I could never fault the effort and do not intend to give up on it, even if Radio is disabled currently.
In the old days, back when I had hours to spend listening, I’d play one LP or CD and while that was playing I’d think about the next selection. As you might imagine, I was not the type to use Shuffle Play on on iPod. My music has never been homogenous enough for that to work. Sure, I like what I have or else I wouldn’t have it in my library, but cueing it up randomly or based on some algorithm is (for me) a recipe for disaster.
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Classic speakers.
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