Post your stereo system!

PJ_Soul said:

This is not mine - I wish!!! But I thought some of you might enjoy seeing this awesome setup that is currently on display in the Vancouver Art Gallery (I was there a couple weeks ago). If memory serves it's a part of an exhibit of retro Scandinavian design. Pretty cool! I love it in person. I want it! Those globes are the speakers of course. And on the right side there is the bin for records, sliding separators built in. Me and a few other vinyl people were all standing there looking at if for a good 10 minutes, all talking about how much we want it, lol. It's so weird. I believe it is called the Q2? G2? Like an idiot, I took a photo of the thing, but forgot to photo the accompanying placard.

Wow yeah that’s an interesting piece of kit, did you hear it?

^^^^^  I've had them since September, I  believe you (reesdog) and a few others recommended them!  Right price and right size for my room. Thanks!

BIGDaddyWil said:

^^^^^  I've had them since September, I  believe you (reesdog) and a few others recommended them!  Right price and right size for my room. Thanks!

Yep! I have the black ones like reesdog as well. I believe I bought mine based on his post WAAAY back in this thread somewhere. I've had mine for a little over a year now and absolutely love them.

bflynn1 said:

BIGDaddyWil said:

^^^^^  I've had them since September, I  believe you (reesdog) and a few others recommended them!  Right price and right size for my room. Thanks!

Yep! I have the black ones like reesdog as well. I believe I bought mine based on his post WAAAY back in this thread somewhere. I've had mine for a little over a year now and absolutely love them.

Glad I could be of some assistant to you fine people. They are great speakers, look good too, not too big and Monitor Audio is a quality brand..

Updates to my system:

Got a really good deal on these Rotel seperates, my Cambridge Audio amp was having issues with the phono stage, was told by the repair guy it would be out of action for a couple of weeks. No record playing for at least 2 weeks?! Not this kid, dropped in at a couple of hi-fi places on my way home that day and saw this lot for a really nice price, we're talking around 50% off. Had a listen and thought yep, I'll take that.

All brand new..

Rotel RCD-630 CD Player.
Rotel RA-630 Integrated Amplifier.
Rotel RT-12 Digital Gateway.

It's not a massive leap in sound from my previous set-up, but it is noticeable and seems to be getting better the more I play things. Nice to have a CD player, I would never have brought one if it wasn't such a good deal and its been fun playing a few of my old CD's that I don't have on vinyl. The RT-12 is for radio and internet radio, probably won't use it too often, but as I said it was a bargain. I mostly play vinyl and its sounding great here.

mrussel1 said:

Are you using the integrated as your TT amp? Any degradation vs your preamp?

Is the 60wpc enough to power those towers? 

Yeah the integrated is for the turntable, sounds better than the last amp I had, which was an integrated too. 60wpc seems absolutely fine, volume goes up to 100, haven't had it past 75 and that fricken loud.. 

reesdog said:

mrussel1 said:

Are you using the integrated as your TT amp? Any degradation vs your preamp?

Is the 60wpc enough to power those towers? 

Yeah the integrated is for the turntable, sounds better than the last amp I had, which was an integrated too. 60wpc seems absolutely fine, volume goes up to 100, haven't had it past 75 and that fricken loud.. 

What does the gateway do for you? Does it stream from your pc using DLNA or is it more limited?

mrussel1 said:

reesdog said:

mrussel1 said:

Are you using the integrated as your TT amp? Any degradation vs your preamp?

Is the 60wpc enough to power those towers? 

Yeah the integrated is for the turntable, sounds better than the last amp I had, which was an integrated too. 60wpc seems absolutely fine, volume goes up to 100, haven't had it past 75 and that fricken loud.. 

What does the gateway do for you? Does it stream from your pc using DLNA or is it more limited?

Yeah can stream via Wi-Fi, also is for radio and internet radio..

dudeman said:

PJ_Soul said:

This is not mine - I wish!!! But I thought some of you might enjoy seeing this awesome setup that is currently on display in the Vancouver Art Gallery (I was there a couple weeks ago). If memory serves it's a part of an exhibit of retro Scandinavian design. Pretty cool! I love it in person. I want it! Those globes are the speakers of course. And on the right side there is the bin for records, sliding separators built in. Me and a few other vinyl people were all standing there looking at if for a good 10 minutes, all talking about how much we want it, lol. It's so weird. I believe it is called the Q2? G2? Like an idiot, I took a photo of the thing, but forgot to photo the accompanying placard.

That's really cool. Thanks for sharing. It looks like a Dual turntable in there.

I never even really noticed that!

MedozK said:

reesdog said:

Updates to my system:

Got a really good deal on these Rotel seperates, my Cambridge Audio amp was having issues with the phono stage, was told by the repair guy it would be out of action for a couple of weeks. No record playing for at least 2 weeks?! Not this kid, dropped in at a couple of hi-fi places on my way home that day and saw this lot for a really nice price, we're talking around 50% off. Had a listen and thought yep, I'll take that.

All brand new..

Rotel RCD-630 CD Player.
Rotel RA-630 Integrated Amplifier.
Rotel RT-12 Digital Gateway.

It's not a massive leap in sound from my previous set-up, but it is noticeable and seems to be getting better the more I play things. Nice to have a CD player, I would never have brought one if it wasn't such a good deal and its been fun playing a few of my old CD's that I don't have on vinyl. The RT-12 is for radio and internet radio, probably won't use it too often, but as I said it was a bargain. I mostly play vinyl and its sounding great here.

Nice! Rotel is quality equipment.

Thanks, yeah more than happy with it. And have been using the internet streamer much more than I thought I would..