I wish I could say the same about me – but the Mrs. would disagree vehemently, I’m afraid… 
I have since received the woodprint Frame, which makes a surprisingly nice difference:
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This amazing setup will benefit with a dedicated server with GPU running HQplayer 
How much difference in upsampling quality does HDPlater running on a high end GPU make?
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The best thing will be to listen to it, since you have prime equipment invested, listening to its full potential will make a difference. Specially new features like DAC correction.
Visit the roon group Which HQP Filter are you using? [2024] - #467 by jussi_laako
A change on the amplifier and streaming side.
Everything is replacement by a Naim Uniti Atom.
It sounds really great; beyond expectations.
I suppose it does stay quiet at times with changes…
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I have a Roon setup that can be heard in four of the rooms in my house, with the only room without a music system being the Master Bedroom.
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The Living Room
Quad ESL-63 US Monitors (electrostatic speakers
Luxman MQ-88uC Tube Amplifier
Luxman CL-38uC Tube Preamplifier
Berkeley Audio DAC Reference Series 2a
Roon Nucleus* and Teddy Pardo Linear Power Supply*
*connected via CAT6 from the Roon Nucleus/Router
Naim Uniti Core
Audio Alchemy DMP-1 Server
Ayre Dx-5 DSD SACD Player
Nakamichi DR-1 Tape Cassette Deck
Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4004 Turntable with tangential tracking tonearm with automatic play controlled by optional remote.
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The Kitchen/Dining Area
Spendor S3/5 Speakers
Windows 10 Desktop Computer
Meridian 551 Integrated Amplifier
Schiit Modius DAC
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The Computer Room (a bedroom)
Spendor S3/5 Speakers
Windows 10 Desktop Computer
Ubiquiti Router with Teddy Pardo Linear Power Supply
Roon Nucleus with Teddy Pardo Linear Power Supply
Audio Alchemy DDP-1 DAC
Berkeley Alpha USB
Musical Fidelity A3cr Preamplifier
Adcom GFA 535II Amplifier
Oppo BDP-83SE
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which Quad speakers are these?
is that a Pioneer SX 1250?
nice to see the Meridian 551. back in the day, there was a print ad for the 551 that appeared in several audio magazines. had a picture of the amp, with the copy “Ribbed For Your Pleasure.”
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This Quad loudspeaker Modo 1000 was part of a project involving Aliante, Quad and Pininfarina. Unfortunately, after a pre-series derived directly from Aliante production this project was discontinued by the new
property of Quad brand.
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Redid my office nearfield desktop set-up. Very happy. Desk is a mess, so pictures are really shame inducing, but it sounds lovely.
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Volumio on Wyse3040 Thin Client
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Schiit Gungnir
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Creek 5350SE
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Harbeth P3ESR XD
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REL T Zero Mk III
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(Also have a Schiit Mjolnir 2 that I used to use for headphones, but find myself more and more just using the Creek’s phone output stage + Audeze LCD-3, Senn HD800, Senn HD600 and I probably ought to get rid of my amazing Folkvangr no matter how awesome it is, it’s a younger person’s toy)
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I wish. But it is still pretty darn good! It’s a Pioneer SX-1050. It was 1978 and it was the first serious audio gear I bought. I didn’t have any money left over for speakers so, luckily, just at the right time for me, a group of like minded folks sprang up at my company to build Bose 901 speakers. One of the serious engineers in the company, who later became Corporate VP, had taken apart a Bose speaker and produced a professional looking engineering drawing in meticulous detail with a list of parts and where Bose bought all the parts for both speaker and equalizer. We got permission to use the big drill press in the fab shop to cut out the many two step holes needed for all the speakers (which made for a huge dusty cleanup) and we put the speakers together the next weekend as a fun project (I was the only female) and the equalizers were put together the following weekend (I learned how to solder) and just like that I had speakers. That is until my Quad purchase in 1985 retired the Bose speakers and the Pioneer because I also imported Quad amp and preamp and FM Tuner at the same time. The Pioneer has become a backup ever since, at one point it was the power in my TV room until it was displaced again two years ago by the Audiomat Arpege tube amp.
As for the Meridian 551, I acquired that used as an eBay purchase. It was the perfect small size to act along with the Schiit Modius DAC as an exterior replacement for the internal computer sound card. It came with a badly abused remote control but I had the matching Meridian CD player, unfortunately no longer in working order, but it had the matching remote control which I could repurpose and it was in perfect condition.
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1050 is no slouch. I had a 750 for many years, but parted company with it in a divorce.
I had a 551 at one point, paired with a 506 CD and 504 tuner. it was a lovely little system.
I might have commented on this before. But… The view outside of the windows is just …WOW. Maybe common place to you. But for a guy in Texas, it is just WOW.
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Thanks, the view is really helping in raising the QoL index, can’t imagine living without it now. Enjoying it every day!
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had a 551 at one point, paired with a 506 CD and 504 tuner. it was a lovely little system.
I love that Meridian group. It has beautiful sound quality and it is perfectly sized for a computer sound system. I had the 508 CD Player which totally broke my heart when the laser failed and replacements were no longer available. I couldn’t afford it and I bought it anyway because it sounded way better than anything else I heard, so the mere thought of throwing it away now is simply impossible. I am leaving it for my heirs to deal with (haha).
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Love the naked Quads!
A necessity! When my two cats were kittens nothing was safe from their energetic play, including my former Quads. They ran up and down them and their fabric is now sadly snagged. So when I got my US Monitors, and even though my cats were then a mature 5 years of age, I decided to take no chances to preserve their pretty deep navy socks. I am so used to their naked look I no longer see it as a negative.
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I like the look.
I still have my 500 / 504 - both still working (although I don’t use either of them much now I use roon).
I went on a Meridian factory tour last year with the AES, and the guy showing us round the factory had been there many years - and said he would have done the QA on my units when they were made!
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