I am curious to know what’s behind the wood panels.
Erno’s not entirely wrong 
As the Vivaldi stack is away to the side, behind those panels are where the non in-wall cables are routed “in-wall” (among other stuff). Cables are meant to be neither heard nor seen 
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Fantastic! As much as I like to see the gear, there’s a much larger desire for me to eliminate visual noise.
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Holy Moly!
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Audiophiles are so tall.
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Few tweaks into the new year
Krell KSA i400 (Prior recapped FPB-300)
DCS Rossini Apex (Prior Bartok)
Can’t say enough good things about the Rossini…Aside from a speaker upgrade, this is one of the biggest changes i’ve heard in my system… truly amazing how much improved it is from the Bartok!!
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And entirely made from Panzerholz!
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Srsly? Wow!
This is what my living room used to look like. Worse in fact. I didn’t even have nice wooden shelves like @struts001. I had “mad professor” stacks of CDs to the ceiling. Every six months or so there would be a “crash,” with an entire stack toppling over (usually the result of me trying to pull a disc from the middle after one too many glasses of wine)…
Then I finally realized that my entire CD collection and more could be stored in uncompressed format on one 3.5" solid state drive, and that was that.
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I haven’t posted anything new for a while.
I just installed a new NAS with 4x8TB SSD’s in a RAID, with 2 NVME drives for resident apps and 2 NVME for caching. I used gen 5 NVME’s for bandwidth and because they’re available. I’m moving my music to the NAS The other thing I did was to build a 10GBE SFP+ network and I’ve installed adapters where I can get throughput. Right now it’s a mishmash of fibre and copper. I’m in the eternal process of ripping my cd collection.
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Love it anytime I see acoustic treatment in a room. Kudos! Just wondering, are the doorstops on the speakers an OCD thing or do they make a difference to the sound?
The doorstops just add a bit of mass and yes it makes a difference. It tightens up the soundstage.
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I use exactly the same ones and they improve my quality of life no end. In my case to stop my sons from smashing my study door against the light behind it!
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I use them on components that are so light that they otherwise get lifted by their cables (EtherREGEN, Waxwing). Never occurred to me to try them on heavy components!
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Sat on the EtherRegen, I would imagine they glow like good old fashioned tubes? 
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FWIW I found that even with ripping, tidal or qobuz sounded better!
So I only ended up ripping audio fidelity, mofi or specially mastered CDs.
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