Chula Vista

Tried the two monitor thing for a while but just couldn't adjust to it. I'm using a 25" Ultrawide LG monitor with an AMD FirePro V4900 card in a Dell workstation with a Xeon 2.8 Ghz processor and 18 GB of ram.

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Freebase Dali

How can you not adjust to 2 monitors? It's like... double the screen real estate. If you're minimizing windows in order to look at another, you're working backwards. Extended desktop on 2 or more monitors is the business!

Also, forgot to add my audio interface(s) to the mix.

Originally I was using an Echo Audiofire 12 (12 in, 12 out) and recently when I changed up my computer, it "broke". I thought it was the Firewire interface, so I had one next day'd to me as a replacement. Still didn't work... so I'm like "welp. must be the interface" and ordered a Saffire Pro 40. Plugged it all in (like Wednesday) and it still didn't work. F*ck. Then I realized... well goddamn, troubleshooting 101, check the damn cable, right? Put in a spare, and it freaking works.

So I bought a Firewire card and an entire new interface because of a bad cable.

You live, you learn, and you sometimes end up with redundant equipment should the sh*t really actually die!

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My computing needs have been consistent for the last 10 years - I need a 24/7 workhorse media server with an external DAC for lossless audio, 6TB of internal storage mirrored to 6TB of remote external storage and a 2nd mirror on the cloud, an ISP with no data caps, and just enough power for database management, image editing, occasional video work, and 0 lag on large media libraries of 100,000+ files.

My current server is dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 7 64bit, has an AMD FX-4300 CPU, 8GB Dual-Channel DDR3, a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 mobo, and a U-Control UCA202 DAC (a fallback after my Cambridge Audio DACMagic died).

A local computer repair shop built the custom tower for $350 three years ago and I picked up a second-hand DELL E228WFP 22" widescreen monitor for free. As a rule I never spend more than $350 on a workstation.

Additional cooling set me back $19 and keeps the server at a happy 10-35°C.

This box provides me access to over 13,000 of my favorite albums and 16,000 of my favorite movies and TV shows from any web-enabled device (god bless unlimited data.)

For sound, I'm running a Denon DP-60L rosewood TT with an Ortofon 2M red cart, Focal 814v floor speakers, a Harmon Kardon copper faced tube powered 1950s tuner, AudioQuest Python balanced interconnects, XLO Ultra cables, Tributaries Silver series RCAs, and various pre and power amplifiers including a McIntosh C39, an Integra ADM2.1 power amp, formerly a McIntosh MAC 4280 vintage receiver, a Sonance SonAMP, a Yamaha 640 70s receiver, and a NAD L40 CD/integrated amp. Each of these are connected with my music server (and I've a Philco 47-1227 9 tube console radio-phonograph on the side.)

For monitors I run Sennheiser HD 380 Pros.

I couldn't be happier.

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Chula Vista

Old habits partly. Been using a single screen for eons. I sit about 18" from my monitor so it pretty much takes up most of my field of vision, plus I'm never doing two things at once.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

AKG 240s!

Bought mine in 1982-3??? Still got them and they still sound amazing.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Key

Love the setup, Pete, but i've gotta say i'm surprised to see that you don't do the duel monitor setup. Your specs sound awesome though so that makes up for it :p

I love the mic setup as well. I've been thinking of doing the same thing in the near future.

EPOCH6

My lab at work, where I spend most of my computer time:



- Two mid-range Dell laptops, one with Windows 7 one with XP
- One mid-range Dell PC with Windows 7 and various virtual machines
- One nearly ancient COMPAQ DeskPro running Windows 2000
- HP 8753D 30 kHz - 3 GHz Network Analyzer
- R&S FSEB 30 20 Hz - 7 GHz Spectrum Analyzer
- Three R&S SMIQ 03 300 kHz - 3.3 GHz Signal Generators
- 10 GHz GPS Reference Signal Generator
- HP 436A Power Meter
- HP DC Power Supply / Digital Multimeter
- Three extra monitors for various uses
- An endless cycle of various amplifiers, routers, switches, and cellular coverage systems

I don't own any of it of course, but I am the only one who uses it.
At home I just have a mid range ASUS laptop with no specs worth mentioning. Won't be buying a gaming computer until Fallout 4 drops in November.

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Key

Text says: new addition to already existing setup.

Anyway, obvious changes to my setup, more specifically the new mic w/ pop filter etc etc. Really excited to have this now. I just ordered a shock mount since I forgot to order one when I already everything else. Lookin' pretty snazzy though.

Image sized really weird but yes, those are duel 27 in screens. They look a lot smaller for whatever reason.

Cheese

Picture a 20 year old machine and that's pretty much my set up. It's nothing flash, but it does what i want it to............Cost me nothing either