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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Any changes by N-set on 2013-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
in the construction from the last year: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?6068-Omni-Gon-The-Final-Phonostage&highlight=omnigon ?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Barcelona by N-set on 2013-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]London is very fine but the Londoners are even better! I really enjoy to people watching here in London. People behave so different in here and in a way so much freer from thos stupid hung ups that so much oppress unfortuna...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #395: YO186 by N-set on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Somewhere earlier last year I searched for some tubes in ex-USSR and YO186 did pop up, esp. in Ucraine IIRC, with not unbearable price ~$100/tube, although in unknown condition (I did not buy any)....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Mass loading by N-set on 2013-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
[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 #17: Mastorack cont. by N-set on 2013-07-26 
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Paul, as you write the pendulum effect is unfortnately unavoidable if one wants the levelingfreedome of spikes, so I try to live with that. I looked at Walker...tjaa....$1750 for a record clamp...I also saw how he works on his suspension (look at my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: State of the fart by N-set on 2013-07-25 
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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Listening to audio racks by N-set on 2013-07-25 
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Thanks de Charlus. Indeed countless hours with CAD soft and redoing the thing  didproduce a nice visual effect (my pic is quite shitty and deformed...sorry).How it will behave? Time will show. Listening to audio racks is one of the last thingson eart...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Mastorack by N-set on 2013-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
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 #24: MkII idiocy by N-set on 2013-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
Making my little research on vibration isolation, I came across those fantastic pictures hereof how Proscenium suspension is made:http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/walker9/2.htmlI've always thought that he uses some custom-made pneumatics,but those ...

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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
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 #7: Atomic age building by N-set on 2013-07-04 
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[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, I've seen and done plenty of all-concrete construction, including floors and entire roof structures, standard, pre- and post-tensioned, and also shot-crete.  Ironically, concrete itself actually gets stronger over time, fo...

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 #4: The structure by N-set on 2013-07-02 
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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...

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 #95: GU81M by N-set on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
...and nobody has taken up my GU81M idea ;(?ah, low morals and small balls, guys......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Gdansk by N-set on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
You are very welcome! Keep in mind however, that I do not pretend that my "sound" is anything special  at this stage--I'm very much on thebeginning of a long journey, progressing slowly. What I offer is a chance to listen to O2MkI with a +/- advanced...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A proposal by N-set on 2013-07-02 
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Scooter, if you happen to be in my part of the world, I invite you to stop by my place (I provide accomodation right in the city center) and listen to my EMT with O2.My Staxquiades won't be ready soon for sure, but my source is well operational(refur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Source by N-set on 2013-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]I think that is a VERY interesting issue to think about in the broader scope of sound reproduction with full-scale systems. [/quote]I'm not sure it's so interesting in the context of speakers--you have much more parameters to pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Stax amplification by N-set on 2013-06-28 
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Hi Scooter![quote user="scooter"] I have tried the SR-009, SR-007, SR-507, and SR-407 many times over a total of some 5 hours with a variety of sources but always with some Stax branded amplifier. Every time I thought / suspected that the big Stax...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Stax? by N-set on 2013-06-28 
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Scooter, being myself a Stax listener, have you tried portable Staxes? Model 001 or something like that.I've never heard them, but I'm wondering what they are worthas an interesting attempt of portable electrostats.Cheers,N-set...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Topology & test by N-set on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"] My proposal was to more or less combine the drivers from said systems in a single system, structurally similar to the Cessaro Gamma[/quote]...which is the Macondo topology only quite a few years younger. Either Cessaro reach...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Knowledge tree by N-set on 2013-06-25 
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I'd vote for mapping the above two posts to the acoustic systems knowledge tree....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Copying the Masters? by N-set on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
de Charlus,I have been chewing on +/- similar ideas (broadly speaking: what is a chance and how to make an advanced horn acoustic systemfrom a scratch with zero prior experience), but unlike you, I'm not yet on the level of seriously starting it due ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: ArXiv! by N-set on 2013-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Graphene for Audio in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Wow! I had no idea such things are now published on arXiv! It has grown a lot from only fundamental physics.Will read the paper, thanks scooter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Nevermind by N-set on 2013-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
There was probably some misunderstanding of intentions and perhaps my English is too agressively sounding, but nevermind, this is not important.More to the subject:[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What makes a TT to sound good is mystery to me.[/quote]I te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: No pretensions? by N-set on 2013-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
I do not know the guy who has written it, maybe he is an idiot, but anyway I'd defend his page.As far as I understand he is a DIY-er (?) who attempted his own TT, inspired by high mass belts.Well, that's life--we all have to make some choices at some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An interesting TT link: belt drive by N-set on 2013-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
An interesting link from Lencoheaven:http://www.soundfountain.com/beltdrive/belt-drive-turntable.htmlsimple...no BS......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: 2nd video by N-set on 2013-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An educational Eugenie’s installation. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
I didn't make it to the 2nd video before and it's indeed interesting.Esp. how he describes the result of his trick: "addition of HF transforming into more air and resolution in the MF instead of more glow at the top"(around 2:30 at the video). It's s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Sceleton plinth TT by N-set on 2013-04-07 
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[quote user="Paul S"] I would like to hear something more rigorous and complex than "the usual" music the DIYers use to "prove" a design/system.[/quote]Was my thought too--"a girl with a banjo" audiopedophile(tm) crap.[quote user="Paul S"]Unusual TT!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: One more example by N-set on 2013-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Allnic Verito MC Phono Cartridge in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1365113014&&&/Allnic-family-intriguing practices indeed......
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