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Chopper posted:Little bit over your budget, but I have these and they are amazing. The sound quality is far far better than any comparable 2.1 system and takes up no space at all. What comparable 2.1 systems did you compare those to? Just curious because I'm always skeptical of Bose stuff.
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Tide posted:It's a Nemo beanie Hahaha, how did you figure that out? Yeah, I got mine off etsy for Electric Daisy Carnival this year. The girls liked it, a lot. 
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Just moved in to a new apartment. Pretty standard one-bedroom affair, except this one had a bare walk-in closet. Perfect size to hold an Ikea Galant with extension.  Not great for my phone's auto-focus. But the room is semi-soundproofed with two opposing doors for cross-ventilation. And they're putting in an outlet on Monday. 
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Sep 10, 2012 00:56
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Does that room have a window? Can't have a super creepy brand new sound proofed hermetically sealed porn dungeon if the room has a window.
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Sep 10, 2012 01:15
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Nope. The next room over does, and I can see it through the door if I wish. This room is 100% porn dungeon.
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Sep 10, 2012 01:42
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Factory Factory posted:Nope. The next room over does, and I can see it through the door if I wish. Isaac Asimov would approve. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to have a little room like that just to force me to stop adding junk to my office.
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Sep 10, 2012 03:06
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 two milk crates hanging from the wall with a shelving board resting between them
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Sep 10, 2012 14:28
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 A lot of el-cheapo solutions (Monitor on music stand, etc). One day, I'll complete it with good recording equipment and a 4th monitor, because I *need* another monitor.
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Sep 11, 2012 00:54
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I'm currently staying with my Grandma on the hop between home and Uni accommodation, so I've set my PC up while I'm here, and it's probably the most interesting view I've had sat at my desk. Look, Winegums! That's a small part of the rolling English countryside through the window. As it's a temporary location the wires are a bit of a mess.  
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Sep 13, 2012 19:19
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What kind of muffin is that?
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Sep 13, 2012 23:28
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It's a Banana nut
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Sep 14, 2012 00:25
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Blueberry.
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Sep 14, 2012 00:51
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This is a work in progress. Stripped and repainted my home office removing my old Sauder like desk. Had a custom 7½ foot laminate counter top (Wilsonart HD Luna Night) built by a local contractor which I mounted onto 2x2 wooden cleats and a pair of good size (21" x 15") brackets. Twin Dell 24 " monitors were mounted on an Ergotron DS100 arm. All the cabling back to the PC is tied together using Monoprice spiral wrapping bands. Mounted on the back of the monitors are Antec Soundscience Halo 6 LED bias lighting strips which really help with eye strain. Those two monitors really pump out the lumens. The keyboard is a wireless (RF) Dell model which I really favor due to the round volume knob on it. Next to it is a wired Logitech G500 gaming mouse. The speakers are Boston Acoustic HD-7's (circa 1990 or so) and, although I am not an audiophile, I think they sound fantastic. They are 8 ohm speakers designed to be run at 10 - 50 watts per channel. The speakers were mounted with Pinpoint AM10 mounts and the wires run down the inside of the wall. The audio is supplied by a circa 1979 Pioneer SX 780 receiver pushing 45 watts per channel at 8 ohms. Formerly I had a Durabrand 5.1 surround system which was ugly as hell but sounded, well, meh. I picked this unit up from Craigslist at what turned out to be a bargain $75. It looks cool and sounds fantastic paired up the the HD-7's. There is also a Monoprice 8 inch 60 watt subwoofer under the desk fed by the B outputs from the Pioneer (so I can just disable it if I want). The audio is fed from the line-out of a HiFiMAN HM-101 Portable USB DAC, a little $39 DAC which I think does a really nice job of improving the basic audio that comes out of the Optiplex 755 system. The Optiplex 755 has an upgraded power supply and CPU (3.00 GHz Core 2 Quad) with a maxed out 8 GB RAM and a Radeon HD 6700 video card. The system drive is a 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD with two additional 1.5 TB drives internal to the chassis. There are three external 2 TB and one 1 TB drives in external enclosures. Would love to replace this system but the only game I play is L4D2 and it runs the old Source engine without an issue. I struggled with something to hold the computer and receiver finally settling on a dirt cheap Walmart TV stand ($20) which fits the computer, four external hard drives and on top are the TWC cable modem (30 down 5 up) and an Airport Extreme dual band N wireless router. The laptop is an older (silver keyboard) 17 inch MacBook Pro mounted on an Ergotron Neo-Flex arm and paired with an older Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The light is a cheapie from Walmart. The fridge holds my jugs of milk, lube and Glock ;-) On top of being my desktop this system is running as a Plex Media Server, serving several TB of content to my Roku box, a couple of iPad 3's and my daughters MacBook Air which connects in from her apartment. I also run a Subsonic music server which serves up 193 GB of music via the web client and iSub on our IOS devices. The library is too large for iTunes Match so this is a great substitute. On order is a Synology DS413j NAS system which will host the music library and video content served up via Plex. I still need to get a set of window treatments and a slip cover for an older chair and hassock I have on the other side of the room. Under construction:  Nearing completion:    The cart with the computer, receiver etc:  Under the desk, twenty outlets for power, the subwoofer and a hassock to keep my feet up: 
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My attempt at a cheap standing desk (http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html).  I have a big ledge by my window which made the perfect place to set things up.  The LACK table makes a nice place to mount rack mountable things. I have a 4U case underneath for the computer but it is just sitting there, not mounted. There's a high barstool-like chair for when I get tired as I'm still getting used to standing, and there's always my now empty desk for longer breaks. 
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Sep 14, 2012 03:18
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ManWhatADork posted:The cart with the computer, receiver etc:
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krnhotwings posted:I'm curious where you got the cart and how wide it is. I could sure use something like that for my setup. That my friend is from the fine furniture purveyors at Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-TV-Cart-for-TVs-up-to-23-1-2/16451701 The actual price at my store was $20, but I had to go to four Walmarts to find it. I originally had my heart set on a hand-me-down that didn't pan out. Once I found this I was just as happy though. I wouldn't want to stand on it but it is more than sturdy enough for what you see on it.
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Sep 14, 2012 04:57
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ManWhatADork posted:That my friend is from the fine furniture purveyors at Walmart:
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Juriko posted:My desk nook thing. Awesome little hangout spot. I dig it - looks super cozy!
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Sep 14, 2012 06:44
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A Happy Hacker Keyboard and trackball mouse together? I can't say I'd ever expect that.
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Sep 14, 2012 09:04
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Re-arranged to a corner setup.
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refraction posted:Re-arranged to a corner setup. What do you use all those computers for? Do you just use Dropbox to keep all the files in sync?
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Kalix posted:What do you use all those computers for? Ha, I set dressed a bit for the picture. - Macbook Pro is my work laptop that I don't normally bring home. - Macbook Air almost only gets used for a painting drop-in class I go to. - Main computer is my.. main computer. I have dropbox but only use it as cloud backup really.
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Kalix posted:What do you use all those computers for?
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ManWhatADork posted:I also run a Subsonic music server which serves up 193 GB of music via the web client and iSub on our IOS devices. The library is too large for iTunes Match so this is a great substitute. It's crazy how big you can get libraries in subsonic. I have about 500Gb of music on mine with no noticable loss of performance. I also occasionally turn on the video streaming which increses the library size to many TB. Donating for this excellent software was a no brainer.
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ManWhatADork posted:This is a work in progress. Stripped and repainted my home office removing my old Sauder like desk. Had a custom 7½ foot laminate counter top (Wilsonart HD Luna Night) built by a local contractor which I mounted onto 2x2 wooden cleats and a pair of good size (21" x 15") brackets. Ideally I'd like to get myself some kind of proper surface for it as it's currently untreated. Spill any water or tea on it, and it'll stain, also the MDF starts to get quite fuzzy.
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Falken posted:Looks great. Free standing desk solutions are great, albeit not for everyone. You really need to have a relatively small distance between walls to do so. My desk is similar in size, but I used 2 layers of MDF and a strut brace for the middle. It's strong enough to stand on, and currently has my monitor, laptop, xbox, 42" TV and half of my junk sat on it. Thanks. This is a split-level house with the fireplace coming up through the bedroom I commandeered as my office. The wall surrounding the fireplace is what makes up the right side wall surface the desk is mounted into. That's why the relatively small distance (7.5 feet) between walls. The desktop was professionally made with high-grade kitchen counter laminate. It is completely sealed which is nice. Now it is laminate so you can gouge a nice scratch if you are not careful. http://samples.wilsonart.com/p-608-luna-night-1854.aspx The cantilever brackets are 1/8 inch steel and rated for 1000 pounds. They are nothing like the usual ones you get a the home store. I got them from the company which built the countertop for me. http://www.businessfurnitureshop.com/workstation_brackets.htm
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poo poo... Double post...
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Just finished building me this: Monitors weren't high enough on my standing desk, so I raised them up (and gave myself space for speakers/headphone amp to be instead of them being precarious on the edge of the desk or stuffed under a monitor. Just some scrap wood and a stair piece from home depot.
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Tedronai66 posted:Just finished building me this: I have that same case, love it, but holy crap is that blue LED in the upper right corner bright.
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niss posted:I have that same case, love it, but holy crap is that blue LED in the upper right corner bright. Yes it is, and at the height it's at, it'd be right in my eye. Electrical tape is your friend. Only a sliver shows through, and you can't really see the tape otherwise. I might be getting a corsair 550D in the near future, with some dust filters. Something about my house makes everything 10x dustier than I can imagine it ever being.
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Tedronai66 posted:Yes it is, and at the height it's at, it'd be right in my eye. Electrical tape is your friend. Only a sliver shows through, and you can't really see the tape otherwise. Or just unplug the LED from the motherboard.
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I like to know if it's in sleep (and the mode), which mine indicates via blinking patterns. Otherwise, I would.
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Splice in a resistor on the power wire to the LED, voila!
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What kinda desk is this? I found it on craigslist and the description says that it's some sorta IKEA but I dunno anything about it.
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Ra-amun posted:What kinda desk is this? I found it on craigslist and the description says that it's some sorta IKEA but I dunno anything about it. The Jerker. Pretty much the best Ikea desk made.
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Wibla posted:Splice in a resistor on the power wire to the LED, voila! Or change it for a green one like I did for my Antec P180 (plus amber for the HDD lights)
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cstine posted:The Jerker. Pretty much the best Ikea desk made. What about the Galant? 
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glompix posted:What comparable 2.1 systems did you compare those to? Just curious because I'm always skeptical of Bose stuff. I've listened to / own(ed) a bunch of random high(ish)-end stereo stuff, and own a set of Companion 2's and even those are pretty amazing. No high end sparkle, but instruments and voices sound pretty realistic. Music sounds good and detailed, and on Skype it's like the people you're talking to are in the room. You can tell the DSP in the speakers is doing its job, and that the engineers are taking advantage of the fact that they know the speakers are going to be sitting on a table and using that for bass reinforcement. I also bought a set of MusicMonitors, but promptly returned them when I realized I spent $300 on computer speakers. They sounded loving fantastic, however. Bose seriously makes some of the best computer speakers I've heard - when you know what kind of environment the speakers are going to be used in, DSP and other fancy tricks can work wonders.
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cstine posted:The Jerker. Pretty much the best Ikea desk made. How much did the Jerker used to go far? I know that it's discontinued and that it's fairly hard to find stuff for it but the Galant is at least $150 minimum while the listing for this Jerker is 80 bucks. I don't wanna make a fool of myself and obviously lowball the guy but I also don't want to overpay if I don't have to.
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My recently built Desktop meant for video editing. Tech specs CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 with Zalman CNPS8900 Extreme cooler RAM: Kingston 16gb @ 1600 MHz VGA: Gigabyte GTX 670 Monitor: Dell 23', IPS/8ms HDD: Loads Sound: Logitech Z4 & Sennheiser HD 515 Mouse&Keyboard: Logitech G9x & Razer Blackwidow Case: Thermaltake Armor A30 Laptop: Vaio F Series, 16', i5, blah, blah Trying to keep it as tidy as possible. Use my windowsill for usual useless crap.  Getting rid of blue LED's as soon as I overcome the lazyness.    Comfy mouse, comfy headphones.  With my Sony F series laptop. Serves as 2nd monitor for time being.   My attempt at war with cables.  Not exactly sure where to place second monitor in the future. Going to most likely have to either put the case on the ground (which I do not prefer because of dust) or mount the monitor to the wall. Somebody fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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