Showing (off) your Roon setup - description and photos [2015-04 .. 2021-03]

This seems like the wrong thread to come in and start crapping on other people’s musical choices, especially when what we’re talking about is subjective taste. As the saying goes “That’s why there’s 31 flavors.”

I have 2,500 albums on my Roon server that cover everything from Pop to Jazz to Rock to Classical to Soul to Hip Hop and beyond. My favorite artists are Sinatra, Peter Gabriel, U2, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Nat King Cole, Queen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and GASP Diana Krall, just to name a very select few. I listen to them to get pleasure out of them. I guess I could sit here and express to you why I like her, but who the f cares. Me listening to her and anybody else affects other people in no way whatsoever, so let’s go back to enjoying other people’s setups instead of pissing on the things that bring them pleasure and enjoyment.

21 Likes

Took the words right out of my mouth! Well put.

3 Likes

August 4, 1969, Dallas Texas
August 24, 1971, Dallas Texas (my favorite of the 3 shows)
May 18, 1973, Dallas Texas

:grinning:

2 Likes

Figure since I’ve spoken up I might as well contribute.

Listening room is also the theater room. Hope to one day get a dedicated room just for the HiFi but until then I had to make this work. It is rather cozy though. Also, just moved Roon off of this HTPC to a new Alienware Aurora R7 (and into a Teac UD-501) so things are nice and speedy.

The 2-channel runs off of Focal 706 V’s which were my very first HiFi purchase. They probably need upgraded but I do still adore them. They have amazing synergy with the Rega Brio-R. Most recent additions were Focal Clears for Christmas.

34 Likes

So you’re the guy causing Roon Radio to select lots of Supertramp tracks?

:sunglasses:

1 Like

A simple Roon setup in the living room. A Ropieee feeding my Marantz HD-AMP1 that drive the Dali Spektor 2s
What’s not visible is the Roon core server which is hidden and connected with ethernet cable via wiring in the walls and the Raspberry PI3+ also hidden running ropieee and connected to the Marantz via USB and an audioquest jitterbug

37 Likes

Lovely aesthetics!

3 Likes

Just wanna say, if I had posted pics of my set-up years ago it would have looked like loads of you guys and gals, and I’m really enjoying, as a new Roon user, all this audiophile porn! :blush:

I’ve been in the hi-fi wilderness for the last 13 years or so as I sold all my Meridian analogue gear and exotic cables and power supplies and rack and everything - and purchased a pair of AVI ADM digital active monitors. Amazing things, but eventually I realised the only upgrade I could buy was a new version of what I had… so now I’m just starting out again like I did in the olden days of NAD and Mission and I’m having a great time! :blush:

8 Likes

I am old , I admit it

Must have been 72, I’d just finished university

Lz4

Thanks Gary! Now I feel young since my first real concerts were at the Fillmore East in the spring of 1971. Never got to see LZ since in those days I was more of a Grateful Dead/Band/Dylan kind of guy. Did get to see the Allman Brothers record “At the Fillmore”, George Harrison record “Concert for Bangladesh” and Miles Davis record “Dark Magus”. Living in the NYC area has its benefits.

1 Like

Wow that’s something! Fillmore East was ground zero for good concerts. You and I were the right age for this era of classic stuff. (Of course everyone has their own era and I’m not claiming ours is better than others). Way off track now of course with this thread. But I was (am) a Dylan/Grateful Dead guy too. I saw Grateful Dead, 12-26-1969, Dylan and the Band (tour where Before the Flood recorded), and The Band’s first national headlining tour. Essentially, in my youth I saw almost every major concert that came through Dallas or Fort Worth from 1968/69 through 1977. It’s a good list because almost every touring act came through the area.
p.s. I can’t believe my parents let me and my 14 year old buddies take a city bus from the 'burbs into downtown Dallas or Ft Worth to see a concert that might end late. But we survived.

2 Likes

A bus from the suburbs, ha! Try the NYC subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the show. But then we city kids liked to abuse kids from the 'burbs whenever we got the chance. :laughing:

As for iconic concerts, how about Springsteen at the Bottom Line in 1974! Or Yes as an opening act for the Kinks sometime in either 1972 or 1973. And let’s not forget Bowie’s infamous 1973 Ziggy show at Radio City Music Hall when he “collapsed” on stage (which to this day I still think was staged). Bowie

3 Likes

Rolling Stones, Dillion Stadium, Hartford, CT - 1969

Probably not iconic. Still The Stones, when they were relevant.

BTW - This thread has been officially hijacked.

The Stones are always relevant or at least until the mid 1970s :open_mouth:

1 Like

We were born at the right time. And you were certainly born at the right place. I saw Yes as opening act for “Three Dog Night” (and later, the Eagles as opening act for YES). I did get to see Bruce and band in a small club (“Gerties”) in Dallas in Spring 1974. About 50 people in the audience and they played like it was Madison Square Garden. Strangely, saw him in 1974. Next Bruce concert for me was his Broadway show last September. (Great week in NYC. I saw Bruce, the “Byrds” Sweetheart of the Rodeo anniversary concert at Town Hall (amazing), and Tony Joe White at the loft at City Winery (sadly only a short time before he died, but he was great).

I’ve spent so much time enjoying this thread! I love that so many Roon users have their systems in clean, functional living spaces. Here’s a contribution:

Roon core on SonicTransporter i5 in separate room > Fiber Ethernet Converters with iFi power supply > Blue Jeans 6a Ethernet > PS Audio DSD w/ Bridge II > Melody SP3 tube integrated and SVS SB-12 stereo subs > MIT Oracle V2.1 cables > 1993 B&W Matrix 800 speakers. Power cables from Pangea and Audioquest via two dedicated 20A lines; PS Audio Power Plant Premier serves clean power to the DAC.





20 Likes

Wow, they are some speakers. Right, I am off to the internet to read up on them…

1 Like

You remember things you did in 69?
Rock shows you did in 69?
Guinness Book of Records.

1 Like

Yes, but to be fair, I didn’t remember all those exact dates. Thanks to the internet, I can recall that I went to a specific auditorium to see a band and that it was in my freshman year in high school, or it was just after a certain album came out, etc. Then I can get the exact date from the internet based on city, approximate time, and venue. I have a friend that actually still has all his concert ticket stubbs going back to 1968 (hundreds and hundreds of them).

p.s. Age and memory is a funny thing. I can remember more vivid detail from seeing The Who in 1971 than I can from what I did last weekend.

2 Likes

Rene,

Lookin SWEET!..Now you need a Monitor you can actually view from that distance…:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: