JimH,
HA! Your desk is messier than mine. I forgot those wheels were there. They're from an old chair that I wore out. Why keep them ? I dunno.
I see you also have a Stereo-Link. Mine is visible behind my XP upgrade that I can't use.
Scronch,
Silly me --- I like Clinton. If he could run again, I'd vote for him again. And the Yamaha's are quite loud (or can be) sitting 2 feet or less away. I'll explain my sledge hammer : fly speakers later.
Zevele,
I am ashamed and proud to admit that the Peavey's are behind me about 8 feet away. This room is about 12 feet square. Overkill? You betcha. I'll explain further down.
Those are my walls. That is my floor. I love wood.
Xen,
Nice desk. From the charts on the wall, you must work there, too. The bottle on the floor? Nice artistic touch.
Who's the babe?
Now I'll explain my speaker fetish and answer John Gateley, too.
When I was 18 years old, the first large purchase I made was a component stereo system. (Note the Advent on the floor on the right side of the chair. There's another on the left. They are original 1971 Advents. New guts but OEM replacements. They are my second set of speakers. They actually have better bass response than the 15" biggies.)
I decided on this due to a dream I had. In that dream, I was in a large auditorium alone in the center seats.
All was quiet and then I hear the rustling of a vinyl album (that's all there was, then -- it was even before cassettes) and WHAMO! Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times blasts out of a pair of Altec-Lansing Voice of the Theatre speakers.
End dream.
I have wanted auditorium-type speakers ever since but I can only afford them after 33 years of wanting them and then only if they are used -- very used.
The Yamaha's were left at the local music shop for a speaker cone replacement (note the one the doesn't say Yamaha) and never got picked up. I got them for $150 for the pair and had to put an $80 crossover in the unrepaired one but they sound good-as-new.
THe Peavey's came from the same music store as a trade-in. I got them for $250 for the pair. All I had to do to them was paint over the band name that was stenciled all over them.
I am trying to avoid that music store ... too expensive and the owner now knows my weakness.
For what it's worth, I now have more and larger speakers in my 12' x 12' room than our high school auditorium does.
That's probably way more than anybody wanted to know. Incidentally, my first CD purchase was Led Zeppelin I.
CVIII