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State of the System

Oracle Delphi MKiii / SME 3004 / NOS Ortofon MC20 Super Turntable
Ortofon ST7 SUT
Six Acoustic York Phonostage
Ifi Zen Stream Streamer
Furman PST Line Conditioner
Hegel H190 Amplifier
Rel T9X Subwoofer
Custom speakers with SEAS Excel Graphene woofers and Fountek ribbon tweeters. They are made of tons of plies of laminated maple that have been cut out with a cnc machine.

The room is 11x17x8.75’, and fully treated with Primacoustic broadband panels

Hey everyone! I’ve made some massive updates to my system over the past couple of years, and figured you would all enjoy.

u/akr0eger — 2 hours ago

Double Bathroom and Closet Remodel Before and After

We just wrapped up the bulk of a massive renovation project across two bathrooms, and are beyond impressed with how it all turned out.

Master Bedroom Ensuite + Closets

We took out the closet entirely, gutted the bathroom to rearrange the plumbing to give us an additional shower. We rebuilt the load bearing wall on the right side of this bathroom to accommodate a flush mounted medicine cabinet that fills the bulk of the wall - giving us loads of storage, and making the room feel much larger.

As the back and left walls of the ensuite are both exterior walls, and we wanted to add plumbing controls, I had the idea to do a 45° corner piece to mount the controls. It actually makes the operation of the controls from outside of the shower much more comfortable before you step in, and flows to match the width of the slab we had selected.

The closet here was very interesting. We removed that little entryway to the ensuite and extended the bathroom to be in line with the closets, and then hid the access to the ensuite behind what appears to be another closet door. We have several hidden doors inside our home, so this felt very on-brand. We optimized the closet storage compared to the older mirrored bifold doors, and ended up with more usable closet space in a smaller footprint - and giving us a much larger bathroom to boot.

Main Bathroom

This renovation was much more straightforward. We replaced the vanity with custom cabinetry in a really nice walnut veneer, and optimized the storage to give us a linen closet (which we did not previously have). These cabinets have the same wood and quartz as the ones in the ensuite to help maintain continuity throughout the house.

We tore out the old shower and added a bathtub, with a little ledge-mounted tub filler that was a bit unconventional, but very functional and comfortable to use. The ledge is made from the same quartz as the countertops used in both bathrooms.

u/akr0eger — 23 hours ago
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Before/After Double Bathroom and Bedroom Remodel

We just wrapped up the bulk of a massive renovation project across two bathrooms, and are beyond impressed with how it all turned out.

Master Bedroom Ensuite + Closets

We took out the closet entirely, gutted the bathroom to rearrange the plumbing to give us an additional shower. We rebuilt the load bearing wall on the right side of this bathroom to accommodate a flush mounted medicine cabinet that fills the bulk of the wall - giving us loads of storage, and making the room feel much larger.

As the back and left walls of the ensuite are both exterior walls, and we wanted to add plumbing controls, I had the idea to do a 45° corner piece to mount the controls. It actually makes the operation of the controls from outside of the shower much more comfortable before you step in, and flows to match the width of the slab we had selected.

The closet here was very interesting. We removed that little entryway to the ensuite and extended the bathroom to be in line with the closets, and then hid the access to the ensuite behind what appears to be another closet door. We have several hidden doors inside our home, so this felt very on-brand. We optimized the closet storage compared to the older mirrored bifold doors, and ended up with more usable closet space in a smaller footprint - and giving us a much larger bathroom to boot.

Main Bathroom

This renovation was much more straightforward. We replaced the vanity with custom cabinetry in a really nice walnut veneer, and optimized the storage to give us a linen closet (which we did not previously have). These cabinets have the same wood and quartz as the ones in the ensuite to help maintain continuity throughout the house.

We tore out the old shower and added a bathtub, with a little ledge-mounted tub filler that was a bit unconventional, but very functional and comfortable to use. The ledge is made from the same quartz as the countertops in both bathrooms.

u/akr0eger — 24 hours ago

Inter-departmental Project Management Advice

Hi everyone,

I have been leading my company’s marketing department for a few years now, and feel particularly comfortable in the role. Our part of the business is extremely efficient, and the owner of the company is very pleased with what we do.

Recently, I received a large promotion (no title change - just a huge pay bump, and ‘more responsibility’, along with the leading of some new business development initiatives) and have been tasked with rolling out some larger projects, including an online store for a portion of the business, along with some revenue operations data collection which will change the processes of a few different departments.

I know what needs to be done here, however, I am now doling out work to people who are not my direct reports, often with competing priorities from their own managers. While everyone is aware of what we’re doing, my tasks for other departments are often blown-off, not taken seriously, or painfully late. To get anything done requires multiple daily check-ins, and often the inclusion of our VP on our emails. Our entire project is bottlenecked by this, and it is beginning to reflect poorly on myself.

At this point, my superiors (owner and VP - who are married, which further complicates this) want me to simply ride them harder, threaten with consequences (which I am not even authorized to do), and say whatever I need to just get it done - which I feel is absurd, as they are not my direct reports. I now plan to refine the workload so my team can handle a greater share in order to meet critical deadlines, which will hinder the other work we do.

Have any of you had experience with this kind of problem?

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u/akr0eger — 29 days ago