Looks nice and workable.

Are the monitors mounted on articulated arms, so they can swing away in any direction?

Rich

Yup. Actually the one on the earlier picture (my own desk) is on the same arm - you just don't see it.

I've also used the Ergotron arms, but this one - made by Innovative - is better. You can buy them on ebay (new) for a lot less; I have the big one for a 30" monitor and it was $100 rather than $450:

http://www.lcdarms.com/

He's set up differently, with the computer keyboard in front of the MIDI keyboard, but that's just the way he likes to work.

Oh, and the reason for using the LCD arms isn't as much that you can move them as that it floats the computer monitor in exactly the right position. You can move them out of the way, but I never do.

A composer friend of mine actually had his glasses focused to the distance he sits from his monitors. He still has CRT monitors on a different desk he bought years ago. But it works for him, so..

Oh yhea definitely better without the "shnorkle" !?!?!? What's that yiddish for "bad looking routing on the front moulding? In any case, it doesn't look so bad when it's covered by gear
BTW, what's up with the ghastly white strap on the Les Paul? Jeez that looks like something Elvis would have used...

www.puresoundstudio.com Build your own.

I'm 99% sure "shnorkle" (spelling? schnorchel?) is German rather than Yiddish - even though Yiddish is landlocked German. The relatives I learned it from when I was a kid (including my parents) are German Jews who never really used Yiddish words.

It means a curlicue - twee stuff, for example totally baroque. I generally don't like shnorkles (however they're spelled) out of the baroque.

I built that desk, though I suck as a carpenter. Just designed/ measured it out, had a dude cut the pieces out at Lowes 3/4" plywood, brought them back here and screwed it together. A lot cheaper way to go and make your own design.

But back to the original topic, not so sure the new interfaces well deliver a better sound quality.