Hi Well after spending a fun (not!) couple of days clearing out my room in preparation for sky+ to be installed, I've come to the conclusion that I've got rather a lot more stuff than my poor ole 3x3m room can comfortably handle. System atm is :- Marantz 66 KI Sig amp Marantz 63 KI Sig cdp Tone modded Maudio superdac/psu. Mission 780s on atacama stands, kimber vdh cables. 2x mana stand bases. Pioneer dvd player, panasonic (8 year old!) vhs (wossat then I hear the younger ones cry :)) Xcans v2 and Xpsu. All balanced more or less on a five stand Target Rack. Not only is the above in the room there is also a 21 " panasonic tv, gamecube and xbox in there as well. There is also the required amount of cables/power cables in there as well. So as you can imagine space is at a premium! I was thinking along the lines of cutting out some of the boxes and hence some of the cables and freeing up some space. So came up with this idea. Part ex the Amp and cdp, put the money towards something like a Linn Classik, a one box wonder of cdp, amp and tuner. Get rid of the vhs (its on its last legs, poor thing) and dvd player and get a multi region hdd player from somewhere like richers. Probably part ex xcans/psu as I hardly use them enough to justify the space. Keep the dac and route the signals from Sky plus and the hdd dvd recorder through it, with the dac plugged into the aux input on the classik. Hey presto 6 boxes down to 3 and less cluttering up with cables. I realise that this ain't going to be the ultimate in sound reproduction, but I'm now at the point where I just want to play some music without having a load of boxes around :eek: Also in my room I've come to the conclusion that it's never going to show any component in their best light as its too cramped to get the perfect installation. I've also grown bored of tweeking and the lure of cable swopping etc has now worn off. I just wanna spend the money on the cds:) Please no quips about "moving out" or "get a better room" as these simply arnt on the horizon atm. Theres just no way I could comfortably afford to move right now so am stuck with this situation. Just wondered what you thought of the above idea, and has anybody else thought of, done similar things. Cheers David PS I've shifted the above system into the spare room atm, and my back is quaking at the thought of having to shift it all back (particularly the bloody amp!)
