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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Very interesting use of 19" rack for Macondolite by mjloudspeaker on 2009-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Excellent idea and very good effort, I like it. j...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? by Paul S on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
N-set, have you tried wall mounting for the TT suppport?  This can improve on floor borne solutions in typically framed structures.  Perhaps you know the sizes and spans of the floor joists and have it all worked out already.  Otherwise, as a generic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Rack attack by N-set on 2013-07-02 
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Paul, I thought about the wall mount, but eventually decided to go with a more universal, pref. end of life solution, I could place anywhere. I've never had a dedidcated rack, a time to have one.The result is a slate-on-steel-frame 500kg mastodont, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Mastodont DIY Rack by N-set on 2013-07-02 
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I will upload some pictures and more details when the rack is at my place in few daysand pre-assembled in it's "version 1". In the meantime, for those with masochistic tendencies, here is a diary of my ignorance on the subject: http://www.lencoheaven...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Rack still not here by N-set on 2013-07-05 
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de Charlus, the rack is still not at my place after the rework (it turned out to shake like a gelly fish--I refer everybody interested to the lencoheaven thread).I'll post pictures and some details when it's here and the slate is on it's place.Cost? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Vibrational jungle by N-set on 2013-12-04 
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[quote user="N-set"]A very approximate calculation shows that in my case I should have the profile fundamentals around 20Hz, soperhaps what I take as subsonic vibrations are actually 20Hz, poorely damped due to the added sand mass. I've ordered a dir...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: I nice platform. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-25 
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A very nice made rack. I do not know if “stupid, indiscriminative mass loading is a road to nowhere”. To me all of the solutions with rack design are road to nowhere. There are many reasons why some of the solutions are better or worse and they all d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Sand by Jorge on 2013-12-03 
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For some reason I cannot post pics, they wont upload to the server so I cant select them.The way Aurios work is with 3 ball bearings rolling inside a round chanel, something like an inverted doughnut...top and bottom.On the center they have a bol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Confined sand by Jorge on 2013-12-05 
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I used to have a rack where sand was placed inside the structure of the rack (square pipe) and then I would insert a rugged construction rod inside it so it would be "suspended"  by friction inside the sand.  It didnt work,  there was no advantag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Martin-Logan, Myles Astor and the Silent Running Stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Martin-Logan, Myles Astor and the Silent Running Stupidity. in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Somebody sent me a link to the Myles Astor’s “review” of the Silent Running Audio rack, which they call Craz IsoRack™, whatever it means… http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue21/sra_rack.htm Before even clicking at the link I knew that it should b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #287: To hell with the wine... by AOK_Farmer on 2010-12-04 
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It is the bass cello wine rack I am after of course.Romy, seriously, I shouldn't have charged you for that 2 cases of Has Christian Glaciovinum, I don't know why I did, and now after this fresh future offense of stealing your gloriously kitchy wine r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Harmonics by Paul S on 2013-12-04 
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12(.5), 25, 50, 100, 200...  Now you just need to track down the dominant mode.  25 sounds about right for a floor mode, but a long, loaded joist span might be way down there. And we still don't know how principal modes are "translated" by your rack....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Floor feedback by N-set on 2013-12-04 
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[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how much hitting the rack feeds the floor/cavity(cavities).[/quote]Paul, standing barefoot right next to the spikes and hitting the rack  with my palm's base moderately(like if I wanted to push a bit blocked door), I ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Mass loading by N-set on 2013-07-26 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know if “stupid, indiscriminative mass loading is a road to nowhere”. [/quote]Let me try to explain why I think so. Adding mass (e.g. sand+shot loading of steel profiles):1) makes the vibration amplitude smaller f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Mastorack by N-set on 2013-07-25 
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So here is the promissed picture of yet unfinished rack:It's huge (the columns are 10x10cm) but still quite elegant-looking in  my room. The electronics rack on the rightwill be put inside the TT rack when I finish working on it. It's all thick (4-5m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Sand damping by N-set on 2013-12-05 
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[quote user="decoud"]For sand to work here in friction does it not have to be load bearing itself: i.e. inside a steel cage that propagates the vibration through the walls there will not be much friction, no? What you want is a sandcastle.....[/quote...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Very nice. by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-26 
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Ah, I see, you have an insert that goes into the belly on the rack and that do not touch the main frame. Very slick and very inelegant.  Juts to ice the cake I would provision 4 hooks atop of the insert that would allow you to hang the insert to the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Roller Bearings color the sound too by Jorge on 2013-12-01 
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I had been using Aurios roller bearings under my Cd transport for a long time, Every time I changed a transport I would immediately put them under, and they always helped: Untill I got the Forsell transport.  When I first brought it into my listening...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #316: Installed my PP 2000 today by beachbum on 2009-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Well got my very hefty piece APS PP 2000 today. This item is well packaged and weighs in at over 70 lps. You could pull something if your not careful positioning 2000 in your rack. Glad i have my Audiav Crystal rack for this behometh. My loaned 1050 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #401: PP benefits by Meiko41 on 2009-07-17 
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I am talking about the fans and the capacitors. I have a PP2000 and the more you load it, the more the capacitors "whine".Nothing from the speakers themselves. It is a pity that cooling is not passive taking into account the efficiency announced. I g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #476: Some common sense and vigilance will do it. by JJ Triode on 2015-10-13 
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The main dangers I see are are:1.  AC line voltage2.  Tube plate voltages3.  Falling from a high place4.  Heavy objects falling on BabyI do not think there is a serious burn hazard with operating tubes.  They are not hot enough to cause clinical burn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: One of the walls is almost "treated". by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-18 
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Spent almost a day to set up one of my CD racks. The rack covers one of the wall the need to be treated – I think this type CD rack it is a good diffuser. The wall is not in the line of the first reflection, in fact in no in the reflective path anyho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #233: It is still all for grabs. by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-21 
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[quote user="anthony"] Personally, I would prefer to have the equipment rack somewhere else in the room but that is just me. [/quote]The subject of equipment rack to be in or out is well debated by be in past. Unquestionably from sonic perspective ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Oh well... by anthony on 2016-03-01 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anthony, the rock located in a middle gives a great advantage of shortest and symmetric cables.[/quote]But it is only the interconnects to the amplifiers that need to be longer...no others...speaker cables stay as is...a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: More about the Silent Running Myles Astor’s syndrome by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-18 
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It is always fascinating to see the primitivism with which audio Moronity manifests itself. For instance in response to article above where I expressed my point that Myles Astor should not be bragging about the SRA’ IsoRack I received an angry email ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vintage JBL products lingo. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
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CATEGORIES:               2100 - Mid and mid-bass cone transducers               2200 - Low frequency transduc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How do you position your stereo? by drdna on 2008-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How do you position your stereo? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
I am faced with remodeling a bit.  I started out with all my equipment on an Arcici Lead Balloon rack and two speakers, which was nice and simple. The mono SE-DHT tube amplifiers I built are now on either side.  I recently have come into po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: First sounds by N-set on 2013-12-19 
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Ok, it took me longer than I thought (fucking servicing an EMT is a nightmare for me),but I've finally put the TT on the rack:It's all still a bit provisorical as the inner cage is not fnished yet (the suspension is missing), but I could test the pne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #442: Finding peace.... by Romy the Cat on 2015-04-22 
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Well, after many considerations I am inclined to decide to go to “lessen footprint” direction. My “equipment corner” is making itself not too practical with all of those child toys and baby equipments that grow around my listening room like mushro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #280: Stradiwinerius? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-03 
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[quote user="AOK_Farmer"]Romy, I don't see a wine rack in the view of the speakers. I believe that the wine needs music to age properly, just as we do. A dark cellar is said to have advantages but the fish down there are albinos. Perhaps some researc...
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