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N-set, you may remember that from the beginning I encouraged you to try a wall mount, for all the reasons you have just cited, and this approach seems even more obvious if the walls are concrete/masonry vs. floor joists and sheet subflooring, not to ...
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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...
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[quote user="N-set"] I'm looking for a nice material to interface between the steel frame and the slate topas a contrained layer--would be a sin to loos such an occasion for constr. lay. damping.After some research, Sorbothane seems unsuitable as it ...
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Romy, thanks for the explanation.
I was not sure if you still kept an eye on that thread Romy. As far as I know you need to be logged in to view the images in the diy threads so I will post a couple here to show where...
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I can't see what advantage one of these "music servers" might potentially offer over a small portable computer sitting on the hifi rack next to a couple large external hard drives and a good outboard DAC.
As for quality of sound : Such a laptop-dr...
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Thanks, guys. They were quite valuable recommendations. I wonder
how would I feel if Thomas what he begin to talk would inform me that I shall
not have more than 3 tonearms on my turntable or more than 3 pressing of my favorite
records…The reality...
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Besides Romys short list of features:
1) A preamplifier shall be modular - the ability to insert n quantity (maybe 20?) of input cards on a backplane (for phono MC/phono MM/line level/Balanced/Single ended/TOSLink) as well as be conf...
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Romy!More changes:B&W Matrix 800's gone.Aerial 20t's in.Wadia 270/27ix gone.Levinson 390s in.Classe Omega preamp in.Got the Otari MX5050BII reel deck up and running in the system.....also the TEAC X-1000R 4 track in the system.Life is good, ...
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I did look at the thread at A’done and I assure that they are idiots. The guy claims that Micro Seiki. Wonderful table but it does need tweaking and labor - almost constantly. I has been living with Micro for a while and I know no single tweak that w...
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[quote user="decoud"] None of these seems to apply in your case because you have a properly levelled installation, directly on concrete [/quote]If I had it on a concrete I'd be very happy! On wood it is, mafrend, on wood.[quote user="decoud"]I see th...
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Paul, thanks! I'm quite happy to hear I'm not the only one fighting vibrations in a seemingly dead structures...It takes a lot of thinking to properly isolate and damp vibrations.Not unlike in the complementary problem: reproduction of the audio rang...
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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...
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Ok, what would believe…. but I am in needs to get another phonostage. Te older I become the lazier I become and there is no way I would switch those cables form tonearms again. Also, each time I switch the cables the unused cables drops behind my rac...
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I had no chance to listen to his latest Designs (I know his L2R, LL2 preamps and the ML2.1..) but probably he wanted to realize his latest ideas (who knows) or he realized that in some parts of the world his existing units are simply too cheap compar...
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Paul, I hear you clearly re wall mount. Well...I have chosen the hard way an occasion to have one, +/- universal solution I could "copy&paste"if I change location. Go through that hell and have it done once and forever. I even ask my daughter to...
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[quote user="N-set"]Rings=poorely damped, due to its crystaline structure. Take a granite tile with two fingers, put your ear close to it and knuckle. Observe the sound.Repeat with other stones to compare. For that reason it's neither used in nanolab...
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Romy, I'll bet everyone has been thinking like you all along (I know I have), but N-set has already dismissed simple "results-oriented" solutions as "ad hoc" and indicated that he is determined to work with his rack as it is and understand each actio...
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Guys, do you shield your dedicated powe lines?I'd have around 9m of a cable unning in the air from the apartment's power distibution box to therack. For me it looks like a nice antena for picking EMI/RFI trashfrom the air. Such shielding indirectly s...
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[quote user="Jorge"]
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 cen...
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[quote user="anthony"]
But it is only the interconnects to the
amplifiers that need to be longer...no others...speaker cables stay as is...all
cables into the preamp stay as is. Longer interconnects is not an issue
in any way that I know of...bu...
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It's finally ass-embled! All in all I'm quite pleased, but I have to live with this mastodont in my room for a while to get used to it.Now I move to listening and repeat some measurements.The insert is on it's own independent pneumatic suspension:and...
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There is a sort of "spool" or "drum" for cable "slack" that used to be run by a fool-proof rack-and-pinion gear, along with the mast; but, times being what they are, it is probably a very foolish "digitally controlled" separate motor assembly now. S...
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"So many people today are interested in audio only to make money, or for show, or as one of their many passing hobbies"I occasionally go to the meetings of a recorded music society. A group of maybe 50 mainly older (50+) people gather in one of the l...
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Just a quick suggestion regarding stands/shelves :I don't know if it would fit in with your décor, but sturdy shelves on wheels would allow you to reconfigure at will (or when you move to a new house, get a divorce, etc). They are also really ni...
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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? ...
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Paul, wood it is not almost for sure: there was hardly any wood and wood craftsmenavailable in Gdansk in the 50's when my building was built. Almost completely (95%)destroyed in march 1945 when pushing the Germans out, it was rebuit mostly usingreinf...
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The room is beautiful, and I love the tree stump "rack" with the amps, it is clearly a work in progress, but they already put in the "Western Electric" badges on! It talks a lot about their priorities I guess!They have what seems to be a midrange ...
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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...
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The primary mode may not be the lowest present mode, but it will only be apparent if the pick-up's own curve is known over the desired frequency band.As for spikes, I see no reason to use them on a suspended wood floor, but in any case the idea i...
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.... is that it is so freaking big! I kind of unsuccessfully trying to find a place for it in my rack and it is difficult. The most prominent to me Pacific’s function is A/D processing and it menace that I need to have an access to the A/D inputs – f...
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