Can you run a system at work?

thedelihaus said:
Jazz, Americana, experimental... Tom Waits, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Townes Van Zandt, the Swans, Peaches, Flaming Lips, Diana Krall, Nick Cave, Aphex Twin, King Crimson, Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, Bjork.
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You have great musical taste and your coworkers are morons. That's my inappropriate snap judgment anyway. Diana Krall is the only artist I would find a bit cloying . . . :scratch2: Your list looks like it ought to include a heavy dose of the Fall as well.
 
I work on helicopters in a hangar and it would'nt be right if you could'nt listen to music while you work. Technics SU-G91 intergrated amp, Technics ST-K50 tuner mated to a pair of Sony bookshelf speakers usually listening to Sirius satallite radio.
 
I used to have a computer-based sound system with Creative Technology speakers and sub. Believe it or not the only complaints I ever got were from the "deaf" person two offices down from me. As a deaf person, she is VERY sensitive to the bass from the sub. I could actually see the pain on her face when she would come to my office to ask me to turn my system down. Since then I have installed my Yamaha CA 610 & CT C610 with JBL L46s in my office. The JBLs are situated on either side on desk and my chair is in the sweet spot. I have turn the system up quite loud and she is no longer bothered. Plus, all of my colleagues around understand how important music is to me and how much it impacts my well-being that they tolerate quite well. I will of course keep it low when I know that they are stressed and need some quiet. All in all it works out quite well.

I sold the JBL 4301Bs that you see now and replaced them with the L46s. My friend and colleague across the hall from me, loved my system so much he decided to rebuild his vintage system. The first thing he bought was the JBL 4301Bs. It has been great recruiting another member into this hobby.

DK
 

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goldwax said:
I work at an entertainment company, so pretty much anyone with an office (barring those in Finance) has some sort of stereo or home theater set up. I got upgraded to an office a couple years ago, and the first thing I did was say no thanks to an HT system (they sound like crap in every coworker's office as far as I can tell) and instead cobbled together a two-channel system using castoffs floating around the office, plus a few of low-end pieces from Radio Shack. Then, a year later, I got into vintage stuff, and started swapping stuff in and out.

Here's what I've got right now, all silver:

TV: 22" Sony - inherited from a former coworker
Receiver: Yamaha CR-640 (alternate this with a Pioneer SA-6800) - both acquired for free from coworkers' home systems
DVD/CD player: an LG unit - bought at Radio Shack
TT: Technics SL-BD22D - my old unit that I bought in the mid-'90s
Cassette: Sony unit that a coworker gave me for free
VHS: Sony unit that I inherited from a former coworker
Speakers: Boston Acoustics A60s that I got at Goodwill. I also have TWO pairs of BA A70s awaiting refoams. These are lined up against my wall, and get comments from time to time. :scratch2:

While I'm at it, I should also mention that I have one acoustic guitar, two electric guitars, and two guitar amps in my office. And yes, I do manage to get plenty of work done!
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Here's a shot of my system in action--sorry it's so crappy looking. My desk is directly in front of the TV, and the floorstanding speakers aren't hooked up--they're merely acting as speaker stands for the A60s, which themselves are going to be replaced by some A70s, which are just out of the frame of the shot.

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I've got a picture posted on here someplace of my work system...

An H/K 230a and a pair of Optimus Pro 127 speakers. I'm the only one who can really do this, since I'm the overnight person, and I'm usually not too busy.

I use the 230a because it is the smallest receiver I own, and I put the speakers in my cabinet at the end of the day. FM only, since I don't feel like bringing in a CDP or cassette deck (and of course, in a big steel building, there is no way I'm going to get any AM).
 
It is good to these office systems. While they are tolerant, my friends do make fun of the size of the JBLs on my desk. Afterall, they replace computer-based creative desk top speakers that are only 6 inches. It appears from the previous (goldwax and erniejade) that I am good company.

DK
 
PoppaSteve said:
I've got a picture posted on here someplace of my work system...

An H/K 230a and a pair of Optimus Pro 127 speakers. I'm the only one who can really do this, since I'm the overnight person, and I'm usually not too busy.

I use the 230a because it is the smallest receiver I own, and I put the speakers in my cabinet at the end of the day. FM only, since I don't feel like bringing in a CDP or cassette deck (and of course, in a big steel building, there is no way I'm going to get any AM).
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If you were so inclined, you can get portable CD players for a little of nothing. They're smaller than a cereal bowl. You can connect them with a y-adapter and get decent sound - probably better than FM. Take a few CDs in a CD wallet and you're in tunes. I ripped WMA lossless files from CDs I checked out of the library today, and the CDs I've burned so far sound great. At 80min each, you wouldn't have to be changing them all that often. In any event, enjoy the music.

Regards,

D-Ray
 
I had a nice danish modern Curtis-Mathes console in the office, until I left it on overnight, and came back to a smoked power transformer, and an office that smelled like burned transformer oil! Luckily the cleaning lady unplugged the console or worse could have happened.

I had to move the console to the warehouse it smelled so bad, and I just threw the receiver away...

I now have a Heathkit SD-2 (I think) stereo amplifier in the console (no more smells after a few cleanings, and a few months), stock C-M speakers with flea-bay networks added in, a $10 Denon cd player, a $5 Kenwood digital tuner, and a long wire to the computer for pandora, etc.
 
Here are pictures of what I use, the Receiver and CD player selected because of the availability of a remote. I failed to correct for the flourescent lighting, so the pick look pretty bad. My office is not very deep, but I am able to get pretty good separation of the speakers, so I couldn't fit the whole set-up in one shot. Also pictured is my only piece of tube gear.

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I like the Bic/Venturi V62. Only wish I could put a little more space between the speaker and the wall.

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The tube's hidden inside; nice warm sound for the ballgames though.

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Regards,

D-Ray
 
I work in a medical clinic that is quite large ....in our section I have a a Technics SA-GX 490 amp with a 90s TEAC 5-disc changer running a pair of Bose 201's. We have XM Sirius Satelite running through it on a y-adaptor to the RCA inputs. At 1600 after the patients are gone we turn up the volume and play it loud. Surprisingly the Bose 201s do not sound bad at all....I think the wide open spaces of our building make them sound better....
 
I had a pair of Bose 201 that sounded just awful in a near-field set up. I took them out to the garage where they had plenty of breating room and they were tolerable.

Regards,

D-Ray
 
d-ray657 said:
I like the Bic/Venturi V62. Only wish I could put a little more space between the speaker and the wall.
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D-ray there was a pair of BIC/Venturis v620 (or 820) at the local Salvation Army last Friday....are they any good? They were made in my home state, Stowe, Ohio I believe...thanks
 
icenine said:
D-ray there was a pair of BIC/Venturis v620 (or 820) at the local Salvation Army last Friday....are they any good? They were made in my home state, Stowe, Ohio I believe...thanks
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I don't know if there is a difference between the 62 and 620. All I know is that the performance of these has far exceeded my expectations. They have a real solid build and clean sound. At a thrift, I wouldn't pay more than $25 for them, but a nice clean pair would be worth at least twice that IMHO.

Regards,

D-Ray
 
I decided that my Klipsch KSW-10 sub wasn't doing me any good in my apartment where my bookshelf speaker have plenty of bass so I brought it into work. Ended up running the speaker outputs through the passive crossover on the sub, seems to work fine. And now that the Celestion bookshelves don't need to go low, they can really sing.

Also got my Nakamichi CD Player 4 in. So now, the setup is:
Nakamichi CD Player 4
Computer sound card
Harman Kardon HK430 receiver
Klipsch KSW-10 sub
Celestion 5 speakers

Thinking if I add a decent DAC, it'll be complete for the time being.
 
Here is a shot of my desk at work a short while ago.

The Marantz 1060 in the center fed two Yamaha NS-690II.
Now I am using a Pioneer SA-9100 with two Dynaco A-25.

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back to vintage - partly!

I popped my new Marantz 2220B (thanks zr1gary!) into the office system today, replacing the Sony ES TA-N110 amp that I've been using. Nice to have balance & tone controls again, not to mention AM/FM for source instead of being limited to Sirius & PC sound.

Still using the new Sony DVD/CD player which looks a little out of place on the Marantz, but works great.

John

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when i worked at mcdonalds! i was the only guy to bring in a pair of desktop speakers and a mp3 player.. i'd bring them in with me every day.. we would listen to whatever, at a volume that wasent apparent to people at the counter up front.
had several friends that worked there also.. they said it just hasent been the same since i left.. i wonder why? :D
 
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