My tube setup

[Vivek Rao]

Since my apartment is very close to the main road music hearing in my main living room was proving to be difficult. I was looking at something for my TV room which is relatively small (10 ft x 14 ft).

By luck I stumbled on the Shanling MC30 all in one tube pre and SET amp. I was unsure how this would sound as it is rated at just 3 watt. Search then went on for a suitable speakers. Heard smaller Klipsch RB51 and was looking to RB61s when I came across the Jamo Concert 803 bookshelfs. Wow the pair sounds brilliant. Although the Jamos are having a sensitivity of about 87 db/w/m the amp drives them quite nicely. I listen to good amount of Indian classical and western Jazz music and find the male and female voice is very well reproduced. The Jamos are also very musical. Being 7 inches the bass goes down low enough.

Of course I cannot expect too much from a 3 watt amp. But this set up was never for parties. The Shanling has an excellent CD player and DAC chip which really brings new life to my CDs. Since my room is quite small the sound stage and the SPL that this setup brings is quite surprising....

 

[Sumanta]

That's a nicely formed amp as well!

I loved overall visual pleasure that your setup gives to me.

 

[koushik]

Nice looking & clean setup. Congratulations!

 

[hydra]

Very nice setup there, congratulations!

You're lucky to have a room where you can maintain symmetrical distance from both speakers to the side walls. Some acoustic panels (DIY, foam or rockwool, broadband absorption) on the first reflection points will most likely give you very good results.

 

[Vivek Rao]

Thank you all..

Hydra, Thanks for your suggestion. I have made a DIY reflection panel. It was not showing in the original photo. Here it is below.

For the corner bass traps I improvised. Instead of making traps I put in a ventilator - as you see angled outward to take out the heat. This brings down the temperature and perhaps the unwanted bass "resonance". I am no specialist here and it was an idea I put in in the design stage. I have not done any studies to really really tell if this works out.

One more DIY is the room lighting. The wood work on top of the TV has 2 steams of LEDs. The one on top hits the roof and spreads across the front of the room giving me adequate TV viewing light while I can put on the lower beam of light too when I need a slightly brighter setup for hearing music.

 

[mpw]

not very often we get to see jamo's..in a stereo setup.

corelement... where art thou ??

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Nicely done and very well improvised..

try a small pillow at the bottom tri-corners...

is your seating position an easy chair ? or maybe a sofa ?

tried toeing in the speakers a touch ?

ofcourse... these are things that you need to just try and not a rule. dali speakers recommends firing straight and maybe so do the jamo's... i dont know..

play it by the ear !

njoi !!

mpw

 

[Vivek Rao]

Hi,

Here is my seating position. I have toed in the speakers slightly. The Jamos have a wave guide in the tweeter area so their dispersion is quite wide. So in essence I do not find any one true "sweet spot". Will try out the " pillow effect". Thanks for the idea.