Paul's System

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Nice clean layout. I like the ATV rack. Who makes it? It looks similar to a Bell’o unit I had with the wood sides and glass shelving.

What’s on the middle shelf? Appears to be a CD player/ripper of some sort.

The rack is from Custom Design http://customdesign.co.uk/ It‘s configurable in many ways and rock solid.

Yes the middle shelf, a long story! It is indeed a CD player. My wife has lots of CDs she still likes very much. And more, she dislikes completely digital systems consisting of only a streamer and an iPad for a remote. That’s why the CD player is still part of the system, with digital out going into the Devialet  .

She slowly starts to discover the advantages of streaming: we were at the opera a few weeks ago and the next day she wanted to buy the CD. The shop didn‘t have it on stock. So I showed her how to get it via Qobuz and she could immediately listen to it! She‘ll adapt pretty quickly and the CD player becomes obsolete.