Welcome to 2025 & please continue to post your audio gear & Roon setup pics here….
Excuse the mess. My makeshift room of requirements doubles as listening room when I’m operating on other things mostly audio repairs etc
speakers are 2 pairs of Linkwitz LXmini+2’s one operational the other appeasing my wife from the space downstairs that also still has Linkwitz Orions, Plutos and my main rig LX521.4MG’s shown below. All DIY.
Linkwitz info at www.linkwitzlab.com
and at www.linkwitz.store
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Very interesting speakers. Would love to hear them. Happy New Year!
I bought myself some Christmas presents this year, McIntosh MC611 amps. MCD12000 CD player and C2700 Pre-Amp. The rest I have collected over the years, the Streamer is a PS Audio Airlens, turntable a EAT C Sharp with a Lyra Delos Cartridge, speakers are Monitor audio PL500II
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Two Channel Audio
Roon Nucleus Rev A
Lumin U2 w/fibre
McIntosh C12000 Preamp
McIntosh MCD12000 CD/DAC
McIntosh Dual MC451 Hybrid Monobloc Amps
Technics SL1210G w/Ortofon 2M Black
Niagara 5000 Power Conditioner
Sonus Faber Amati G5
Home Theater
Anthem AVM90 Audio Video Processor
Paradigm Active Reference center/surrounds
Paradigm Servo 15
65" Sony Bravia
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Happy New Year 2025.
Additions in 2024: Shanling ET3 CD Transport, a pair of REL T/9x subwoofers, iFi LAN iPurifier Pro, LAN iSilencer, DC Blocker+ (multiple), GND Defender, and a few ground boxes.
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One year on the way with Roon, last year my set up was as follows:
During 2024 the speakers received a small upgrade (same model: MFB 587 from 1979, but black tulip version and they were completely overhauled by MFBFreaks in the Netherlands):
And finally upgraded to a Mcintosh… however that is the cabinet, housing the Denafrips Arce & Pontus 15th edition…
I use an iPad Pro mounted on the wall to operate everything.
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Those speakers seem to have been years ahead of the pack with their amps and crossovers etc
I remember Philips used to make some good quality HiFi when I was a kid in the 70/80s
Such a diverse and innovative product history too, shame it’s tailed off now - I went to Evoluon in Eindhoven a few years ago, to revisit childhood memories; the flying saucer is still there, but sadly no longer the fantastic museum it was (please excuse the off-topic tangent)
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(Ahem, I’ll get back on topic)
I love my Diablo Utopias - but the colour was grating. I’d planned to get my friend (who painted the bass speakers) to do them - but it seemed like such a faff…
So I tried a bit of Wrapping - v pleased with the result 
Hib hob hibby, boogy on to the beat
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Okay, I’ll jump on the bandwagon to be an early 2025 participant of pic sharing.
My main music listening room also doubles as my TV room. I truly enjoy spending time in it, though life often has other plans. So, I listen to music quite a bit on my headphone rig when working in front of the computer. I’ve also set up Roon to deliver music to every room in the house so music is everywhere. Here are pics of my main room.
As a source of humour, I sourced a couple of power conditioning units from China years ago. They make me grin because, for whatever reason, the manufacturer couldn’t get the power switch positioned straight. I thought it was a defect until I ordered the second one, to only have it match. The components inside are decent, though.
I’m a fan of the Devialet Phantoms. The low end they deliver is simply astounding. You have to hear them to believe it. The Mutec lowers the listening noise floor to the point it is completely black. There is no noise floor. And the miniDSP provides Dirac digital room correction which ties it all together. I haven’t paid a lot of attention to physical room correction though I would think it could further improve the room, but honestly I’m happy as it is. The sofas, cushions and carpet work good enough in tandem with the digital room correction.
Best wishes for the New Year. Enjoy the music.
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Got myself a new WiiM Ultra to provide my computer corner with some nice music. Placed next to my daily NUC, blu-ray writer & Loxjie Audio D30 stack. 
It is connected to a pair of Presonus Eris E4.5 BT active monitors 
It sounds really great for its price 
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Configuration 2.2
- Anthony Gallo Acoustics Reference 3.5 speakers (Xover 67Hz)
- 19" mini IPC system 1U ‘Emu X1-N100 Fanless’ (intel N100) as Roon endpoint and Dirac Live Bass Control processor host (Harman curve +4db below 350Hz)
- Okto Research dac8 PRO (USB)
- NAD C298 power amp
- Dual sub SVS SB4000,
(One sub, in front, a little ahead of the left main, placed at 90 degrees from the axis of the mains
One sub, placed laterally to MLP, right wall, placed at 90 degrees from the axis of the mains (not on the picture))
- Raspberry Pi 4 (RoPieee) & Topping D10 Balanced DAC USB only for Crookwood VU-Meters and BDS spectrum analyser inputs (This set works as a secondary zone)
Ipad remote (CentroControl software)
Roon docker in RS3617xs+ far away in my house
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Beautiful room. Looks like a basement or cellar. The hearth looks amazing.
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Thanks.
It is night. The windows are not visible in the photo.
This is the ground floor of a very old house (17th century).
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A bit of holiday cheer around HiFi Rose RS130, LampizatOr Atlantic TRP 3 balanced with volume, two PL Evo 400, a PL tube cd player, and Lawrence Audio Cello speakers. Fed by fiber from a dedicated switch and Roon rock in the basement below. Power by Denali, all cables are Zavfino. For hot summers there is a little all solid state system here as well (Roon on Rasberry with screen, Pro-ject Digital Prebox Dac/Preamp, Odyssey Audio Karthago Amp, and KEF LS50 Meta speakers). Need a bigger house…
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My humble audio setup:
AEZ nanotec Power Strada #308 / Iego 8075BK copper-rodium powercables
Purecable nanoPWR 309 powercable (1x used on the DAC)
Purecable 8x Nano Block with iFi AC iPurifier
Synology DS212+ NAS
SOtM sNH-10G switch with sCLK-EX on sPS-500 powersource
Intel NUC8i7BEH with Roon ROCK with iFi DC iPurifier2
AEZ Carbon / MFP8 IE ethernet cables
Mano ULTRA mkIII.5 Farad Music streamer with Gentooplayer
Holo Audio MAY Level 3 Kitsune (KTE) DAC
AEZ Furutech FA-αS22/CF-102(R) RCA interconnects
Holo Audio Serene Level 2 Kitsune (KTE) pre-amp
Kinki Studio EX-B7 mono power-amps
AEZ nanotec SP#79 PTC1 / Furutech FP202(R) speakercables
Xanadu HRS22YH-MG with ViaBlue UFO XL absorbers
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Something fishy…courtesy of Mola Mola. More stuff inside the cabinet, including Grimm MU2 streamer/DAC. Enjoying every minute of music.
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