80B Upgrades in 2020

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The year started out with us in a 750s.f. apartment as our new home was under construction. The S.F. Amati Futuras and most of our gear was in storage for about 10 months. I had another thread showing the construction: https://www.audioaficionado.org/showthread.php?t=47079. We've downsized a bit from our last home, and now have more of an open floor plan. We did put in a niche for the rack, and ran a conduit under the floor for the rear speakers from that niche. The conduits had some cheap wire in them, which we replaced with WW Oasis 8 cable after the closing on the house. Turns out that pulling the Oasis cable through, we broke the existing wire. Good thing I had a very good installer here - we found out the builder not only cut the conduit down to floor level, but then blocked part of it with drywall. Just nuts, looking down at that conduit:


However, we got it resolved, and got moved in:




Well, we got most of it put together now, even though we're still unpacking a bit, and I need to dial in remotes, a lot of Hue lights, and the Google home. Of course, Ivan came through big time with great advice and some upgrades with the Wireworld cables. Even installed a new Schiit Yggdrasil today. Got a couple more upgrades that I hope will be in by early next month, so more to come.





This is a bit dark, since the camera is metered on the TV, which shows the picture of the same spot before the slab was poured.