Post your actual desk(top)!

hhh · 2020-10-01 00:09:47

I thought you would like it for a different reason. It's quote from the Clint Eastwood movie, Space Cowboys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruyfJJT7qY

"Flying brick! I like that."

Sector11 · 2020-10-01 02:40:03

That brick went right over my head.
Good movie though.
Buncha of foggies in space

deleted0 · 2020-10-01 03:09:59

hhh wrote:

I finally found a free piece of wood that gives me a proper soundstage. I present "The Flying Brick"...
https://i.postimg.cc/sGyDJgt7/20200930-191803.jpg

Nice; now raise the speakers so the axis of the speaker cones is at ear level.

8bit

hhh · 2020-10-01 03:25:38

The tweeters are less than a foot below my ears. Good enough for a wobbly plank of wood. The improvement is huge, I have a sound stage. I'll post again when I have some tower stands or maybe shelves on the wall.

Döbbie03 · 2020-10-01 04:39:56

I thought I had shared my new monitor. I hadn't so....

43" of 4k goodness.

unklar · 2020-10-01 06:58:10

^^@Dobbie03,
a clean, tidy workplace. I like that.
The Playmax mat reproduces the movements of the mouse well?

43", how far away from the screen do you sit? (joke)

("Zum Wohle!")"Cheers!", enjoy your beer.

Döbbie03 · 2020-10-01 07:32:41

unklar wrote:

^^@Dobbie03,
a clean, tidy workplace. I like that.
The Playmax mat reproduces the movements of the mouse well?
43", how far away from the screen do you sit? (joke)
("Zum Wohle!")"Cheers!", enjoy your beer.

Thanks!

Yeah the mate is brilliant, seems to work perfectly with the mouse. I've had this mat for about 4 years. It needs a clean.

I sit about 3 feet from the screen Cheers!

PackRat · 2020-10-01 09:41:41

Dobbie03 wrote:

I sit about 3 feet from the screen Cheers!

About an arm's length from that beer then; pretty good set up.

Sector11 · 2020-10-01 12:20:27

My Dobbie03 desktop reaction:

deleted0 · 2020-10-01 15:03:22

hhh wrote:

The tweeters are less than a foot below my ears. Good enough for a wobbly plank of wood. The improvement is huge, I have a sound stage. I'll post again when I have some tower stands or maybe shelves on the wall.

Not only raise them (when you get a real desk speaker stands) but angle them towards you. Which you can do right now.

8bit

hhh · 2020-10-02 00:42:20

eight.bit.al wrote:

hhh wrote:
The tweeters are less than a foot below my ears. Good enough for a wobbly plank of wood. The improvement is huge, I have a sound stage. I'll post again when I have some tower stands or maybe shelves on the wall.
Not only raise them (when you get a real desk speaker stands) but angle them towards you. Which you can do right now.

This is entirely dependent on the room, the equipment, and the preference of the listener. In this scenario, pointing the tweeters straight ahead gives a little more sound stage and slightly reduces the harshness of the cheap-ish tweeters (they're really quite good for how flipping cheap they were) as they're off-axis. I mean, I'm 3 feet away from them, how much difference is it making?

But yes, I'm working towards getting back an audiophile listening room (I've had several.) It's not gonna happen in this apartment/flat. I can't fit a real desk into my room unless I remove my bed, let alone a proper component system with some B & W speakers or something similar.

Anyways, I just let what's left of my ears be my guide. This stupid piece of wood was a huge upgrade.

And if if I end up posting a pair of 30K speakers with some expensive tube amps driven by a virtual-reality interface to my brain playing compressed digital audio files, you better not say "Tow those fuckers in 2 inches on each side." Almost all of what we hear on recordings now, unless you actively avoid it, is compressed digital audio files. I'd guess that here is more algorithm interpolation in any given mp3 file than there is actual audio data.

Those speakers are 30 large. Mine were 50 bucks delivered, amp included (I think it was about $59 after sales tax). I'll use mine for now, they sound really good from a meter away, and that's saying something.

hhh · 2020-10-02 01:41:27

Anyways, we're way Off Topic now, but I'm looking at these satellite speaker stands...

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Atlantic- … lsrc=aw.ds

https://www.amazon.com/Sanus-Adjustable … 4499&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Speaker-Sp … 4442&psc=1

Got it, these are cheap and will easily hold my tweeters...

https://discountelectronics.com/titaniu … fIQAvD_BwE

hhh · 2020-10-02 01:48:30

hhh wrote:

Got it, these are cheap and will easily hold my tweeters...
https://discountelectronics.com/titaniu … fIQAvD_BwE

I noticed that they only had one pair left for sale, so I bought them for USD $41.29, tax and delivery included. Now 'Out Of Stock', sorry. I'll post back when I get them in a week or two.

So the stands almost cost as much as the entire amplified satellites and subwoofer audio system, and these stands were cheap. Commerce, it's a bitch. My piece of wood is looking good right now.

-edit- Thanks, Al. I wouldn't have jumped on this purchase if it wasn't for your bitching. and I know it will both look better and, much more importantly, sound better.

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-r4tr0/i … 33.jpg?c=2

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Döbbie03 · 2020-10-02 04:57:15

PackRat wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
I sit about 3 feet from the screen Cheers!
About an arm's length from that beer then; pretty good set up.

It's all about ergonomics man.

deleted0 · 2020-10-02 05:16:51

hhh wrote:

-edit- Thanks, Al. I wouldn't have jumped on this purchase if it wasn't for your bitching. and I know it will both look better and, much more importantly, sound better.

My work here is done.

8bit

PackRat · 2020-10-02 14:05:11

Dobbie03 wrote:

PackRat wrote:
Dobbie03 wrote:
I sit about 3 feet from the screen Cheers!
About an arm's length from that beer then; pretty good set up.
It's all about ergonomics man.

+100

hhh · 2020-10-03 03:36:55

Actually, I place my drinks on the nightstand behind me and swivel around to drink coffee, water (occasionally) or beer. Protect the keyboard.

damo · 2020-10-03 03:40:19

hhh wrote:

....Protect the keyboard.

And don't bite into a cherry tomato while a laptop is on your lap!

hhh · 2020-10-03 03:41:44

^ That's oddly specific, but I see the truth of it.

hhh · 2020-10-07 20:25:42

Thanks Al, totally worth the 41 bucks. Way better looking/less wonky and way more options for better sound via placement and height. You can see they have about 2 feet of extension, I'd say they can go another 13-15 inches higher than this (I need to get a tape measure. They are currently extended 1 shampoo bottle distance, approximately). The speaker cord goes through the inside of the stand, a nice feature. They're hefty steel stands, easy enough to assemble with different options for attaching the speaker (my tweeters are light with plastic housings, I just used the included 3M double-sided tape), and they look great...

Not the final placement, but close enough for a blurry pic. The Flying Brick has been bricked.

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