Anways. I had a nice big ole Stereo amp and speakers that I picked up for a song a few years ago (calm down audiophiles, It's only a Sony). Since getting the new HD, I've ripped about 50 albums and encoded them using EAC + lame.
I hadn't had the chance to reconfigure so up until now I've had everything just bunched all around the computer. I didn't think to take pics until halfway through this project so here's a crude photoshop representation with meerkats where the speakers used to be. The stereo amp basically halved my workspace:
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/meerspeakers.jpg">
The meerkats are symbolic of the sound quality when you have everything bunched up in one place - wild and probably smelly. I didn't like that one on the left being so close to my beer either.
We found some great old wallmounts in the storeroom - ball joint and everything. Our el cheapo hammerdrill made short work of the masonry (top down view):
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/wallmount.jpg">
Left channel:
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/left.jpg">
Right channel:
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/right.jpg">
Testes...testes...one, two...THREE?
Ran a 3.5mm stereo plug from the case through a 6m extension to an RCA adapter and into the RCA sockets in the amplifier. Set up works nicely - amazed I had all the parts and adapters lying in drawers all over the house..
The stereo's new home all the way on the other side of the room - pretty much in the middle of the two newly mounted speakers. Sounding very nice aside from all the book shelves I had to evict into ghetto-like boxes.
:
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/newhome.jpg">
And the desk, newly free from ALL audio equipment (and small African mammals):
<img src="http://macheath.customer.netspace.net.au/webstereo/nomeerkats.jpg">
