21-Feb-2020, 01:45
Having just got the instructions on how to post photos, I thought it was about time to show my system. The equipment list is in my signature.
The room is a bit on the awkward side being L shaped so each photo is from a different position and angle to end up providing a full 360 degree view of the room and setup. An extreme wide angle lens was used so the perspective looks pretty extreme in places but the wide angle lens does let me fit everything in fairly easily.
Front of the room from just behind my chair. There is a corner Mondo Trap straddling each corner at 45 degrees and just behind each speaker there’s a Mondo panel, identical to the one in the centre. The speakers are obvious. There’s a 2 shelf Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack with the carbon fibre Formula shelves in the middle, Roon Nucleus+ on the top shelf and the Expert 140 Pro on the bottom shelf. To the right of the left speaker in the background there’s a Monaco amp stand (basic perspex shelf) with the PS12. The speaker cables are Kimber Select copper and the red cables in the background are WireWorld Starlight Cat 8 ethernet. Hidden out of sight behind the 2 shelf Monaco rack is the ethernet switch connecting everything, an Uptone Audio EtherREGEN which really does make a difference.
The room is 5.2 metres wide here and you can see one of the major issues for my room on the right, that archway to the hall from the front door you can see through it.
This is the view to the right from near the left wall. It gives a better view of the panel behind each speaker and it’s placement in the room relatively close to the speaker and well forward of the corner and the bass trap there.
The next room issue is visible, that wall to the right of the chair. The room is L-shaped and the bend is that corner you can see on the right behind the chair. From the front wall to that wall that ends near the chair is 4 metres. The speakers are placed 2 metres from the wall behind them, measured to the tweeter, so half way between that front wall and the wall next to the chair. They’re 1.3 metres from the side walls. Short direct sound path to the chair and around 3.5 times longer first reflection path does a good job of attenuating the first reflection on the left without needing to absorb or diffuse it. A first reflection from the right side has never been an issue and I suspect that the sound that would otherwise deliver the first reflection actually exits the room through the archway and isn’t reflected back into the room from the wall on the far side of the hall. What isn’t really obvious because of the way perspective is rendered by the wide angle lens is that the corner to the right of the archway is actually angled at 45 degrees so there isn’t a right angle corner there.
View from the right to the rear, from beside the Monaco rack. That left side wall is 7 metres long so the room extends 3 metres behind the listening chair. You can see another Mondo corner trap in the rear corner.
The pictures on the wall aren’t visible from the listening chair unless I turn around. They act to break up reflections in the rear area a bit and that actually does improve the sound slightly over leaving the wall bare but they’re mainly there because I don’t like the look of a long, bare wall there.
Finally, looking down the left side of the room. That area behind the chair is 3 metres wide and 3 metres deep. You can see the Mondo corner traps in each corner and the final Mondo panel in the middle. The sofa and chair at the rear are well forward of the wall with a fair bit of free space behind them. There’s also another archway entrance there, leading to a large open plan space with the kitchen and dining/living room area.
This room is purely a listening room. Things sound really good in the listening chair and tonally very good back at the sofa but the stereo imaging disappears back there because you’re off centre and out of line of sight to the right speaker. I actually like curling up on the sofa and reading with music playing in the background. When people visit, everyone takes turns in the listening chair.
The room is a bit on the awkward side being L shaped so each photo is from a different position and angle to end up providing a full 360 degree view of the room and setup. An extreme wide angle lens was used so the perspective looks pretty extreme in places but the wide angle lens does let me fit everything in fairly easily.
Front of the room from just behind my chair. There is a corner Mondo Trap straddling each corner at 45 degrees and just behind each speaker there’s a Mondo panel, identical to the one in the centre. The speakers are obvious. There’s a 2 shelf Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack with the carbon fibre Formula shelves in the middle, Roon Nucleus+ on the top shelf and the Expert 140 Pro on the bottom shelf. To the right of the left speaker in the background there’s a Monaco amp stand (basic perspex shelf) with the PS12. The speaker cables are Kimber Select copper and the red cables in the background are WireWorld Starlight Cat 8 ethernet. Hidden out of sight behind the 2 shelf Monaco rack is the ethernet switch connecting everything, an Uptone Audio EtherREGEN which really does make a difference.
The room is 5.2 metres wide here and you can see one of the major issues for my room on the right, that archway to the hall from the front door you can see through it.
This is the view to the right from near the left wall. It gives a better view of the panel behind each speaker and it’s placement in the room relatively close to the speaker and well forward of the corner and the bass trap there.
The next room issue is visible, that wall to the right of the chair. The room is L-shaped and the bend is that corner you can see on the right behind the chair. From the front wall to that wall that ends near the chair is 4 metres. The speakers are placed 2 metres from the wall behind them, measured to the tweeter, so half way between that front wall and the wall next to the chair. They’re 1.3 metres from the side walls. Short direct sound path to the chair and around 3.5 times longer first reflection path does a good job of attenuating the first reflection on the left without needing to absorb or diffuse it. A first reflection from the right side has never been an issue and I suspect that the sound that would otherwise deliver the first reflection actually exits the room through the archway and isn’t reflected back into the room from the wall on the far side of the hall. What isn’t really obvious because of the way perspective is rendered by the wide angle lens is that the corner to the right of the archway is actually angled at 45 degrees so there isn’t a right angle corner there.
View from the right to the rear, from beside the Monaco rack. That left side wall is 7 metres long so the room extends 3 metres behind the listening chair. You can see another Mondo corner trap in the rear corner.
The pictures on the wall aren’t visible from the listening chair unless I turn around. They act to break up reflections in the rear area a bit and that actually does improve the sound slightly over leaving the wall bare but they’re mainly there because I don’t like the look of a long, bare wall there.
Finally, looking down the left side of the room. That area behind the chair is 3 metres wide and 3 metres deep. You can see the Mondo corner traps in each corner and the final Mondo panel in the middle. The sofa and chair at the rear are well forward of the wall with a fair bit of free space behind them. There’s also another archway entrance there, leading to a large open plan space with the kitchen and dining/living room area.
This room is purely a listening room. Things sound really good in the listening chair and tonally very good back at the sofa but the stereo imaging disappears back there because you’re off centre and out of line of sight to the right speaker. I actually like curling up on the sofa and reading with music playing in the background. When people visit, everyone takes turns in the listening chair.
Roon Nucleus+, Devilalet Expert 140 Pro CI, Focal Sopra 2, PS Audio P12, Keces P8 LPS, Uptone Audio EtherREGEN with optical fibre link to my router, Shunyata Alpha NR and Sigma NR power cables, Shunyata Sigma ethernet cables, Shunyata Alpha V2 speaker cables, Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack, RealTRAPS acoustic treatment.
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
