Adam Elmore

On the desk19

• Desk Artifox Desk (White Oak) Shop

  This desk is so thoughtfully designed, and it ships in packaging that Apple would be proud of. The cable management features are exceptional and I also love the headphone pegs.

• Chair Herman Miller Embody Shop

  I previously owned an Aeron, but I'm loving the switch to an Embody. Given that the Artifox desk isn't a sit+stand desk, I spend all of my working hours sitting; the Embody helps make that as comfortable as possible.

• Desk Apple M1 Mac mini Shop

  (16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 10G ethernet) I have the Mac mini mounted to the underside of my desk and I love how that simplifies cable management with the Artifox desk.

• Monitor Apple 32" Pro Display XDR Shop

  (w/ Nano-texture glass and Pro Stand) I know this is a pro display with lots of features I probably don't care about, but I love the look of it and also love having a single 32" display with 6K resolution.

• Keyboard Keychron K3 Keyboard Shop

  w/ brown switches I used to use an Apple magic keyboard, but missed the clickety-clack of mechanical keyboards; the K3 is low profile enough to feel familiar, and the brown switches quiet enough to not drive my wife crazy.

• Accessories Custom coiled USB-C cable in dark gray from Mechcables Shop
• Keyboard Apple Magic Trackpad Shop

  I moved to a trackpad to encourage me to use my keyboard more, and it's mostly worked.

  On 19% of the desks we’ve published
• Hub / Dock Universal Audio Apollo Twin X DUO Shop

  This audio interface takes my XLR mic inputs in and provides real-time processing—compression, EQ, background noise removal, etc. I route the processed vocal to my camera when creating video content, and to my iPhone when running my live audio show on Twitter Spaces. This audio interface also powers my Sennheiser headphones.

• Headphones Apple AirPods Max Shop

  They look and sound great. Also, the switching between Apple devices is painless and the noise cancellation is excellent.

  On 11% of the desks we’ve published
• Microphone Shure SM7B Mic Shop

  I use this mic when I don't care about the mic being in the frame on video, and when I'm recording anything while my kids are awake; it's really great about isolating sound and keeping the sounds of kids playing outside my office out of the mix.

• Accessories Cloudlifter CL-1 Shop

  The SM7B is notorious for needing a ton of gain from your preamp and Cloudlifter helps feed it. I mounted this to the underside of my desk alongside the Mac mini.

• Accessories Rode PSA1+ Boom Arm Shop

  I love this boom. It keeps the mic exactly where you position it.

• Microphone Mogami Gold mic cables Shop
• Lamp Adesso Director Floor Lamp Shop

  It's a lamp. It fits the mid-century modern aesthetic along with the desk and storage cabinet.

• Miscellaneous Blu Dot Peek 6 Drawer Dresser Shop

  Another piece of white oak furniture that fits into the mid-century modern style of the space and allows me to keep cables/etc. close by but out of sight.

• Miscellaneous Sound Absorbing Panels by GIK Acoustics Shop

  I have these panels around the perimeter of the office, and also hung 3 larger panels over my desk. My office is mostly square and the acoustics were awful with hardwood floors; these panels worked wonders.

• Miscellaneous LEGO modular series buildings Shop

  The highlight of my backdrop and feature custom lighting from lightmybricks.com. I've lit half of the buildings, so far, as it's super labor intensive: I'm drilling holes through bricks to run the wires inside the walls so that no wires or lighting components are visible. The end result looks great, but it's taken 100+ hours thus far, so it's a bit of a long term hobby.

• Miscellaneous Custom LEGO calendar in dark gray Shop

  I bought the classic calendar and then sourced replacement parts from bricklink.

• Miscellaneous Bloomscape plants Shop

  All of the plants in my office are real