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- 2024-01-30 08:18
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Pete's System
- Replies: 79
- Views: 223966
Re: Pete's System
Thanks everyone for your help and kind comments. My wife and cat also prefer without! I wasn't sure, but I think as Spannko observes, this is a case of being distracted by the sound away from the tune. Normally I am happy to listen to the music anywhere in the room, but with the panels in place I fi...
- 2024-01-29 22:03
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Pete's System
- Replies: 79
- Views: 223966
- 2024-01-29 21:59
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Pete's System
- Replies: 79
- Views: 223966
- 2024-01-29 21:57
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Pete's System
- Replies: 79
- Views: 223966
Re: Pete's System
Ah yes I wondered about that. I'm not sure how to achieve that, at least without irreversible changes.
As for the TV .... I think I'd face a family insurrection if I tried that!
- 2024-01-29 08:44
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Pete's System
- Replies: 79
- Views: 223966
Room Treatment
Has anyone experimented with room treatments to improve their system? At the weekend I serendipitously found myself with spare rockwool insulation and two 75cm x 100cm unwanted picture canvases. It took about 5 minutes to stuff the frames with 5cm thick rockwool and place them behind the speakers to...
- 2024-01-21 10:30
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Sounds very engaging.
- 2024-01-18 10:42
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
- 2024-01-15 13:09
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Setting up loudspeakers for the best tune
- Replies: 97
- Views: 85378
- 2024-01-14 18:35
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
- 2024-01-14 16:44
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Vinyl Revival
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9713
- 2024-01-14 10:32
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Vinyl Revival
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9713
Re: Vinyl Revival
My youngest has picked up 35mm photography. I used to have my own darkroom, but stopped using it in the 1990s after printing the colour slides from my honeymoon. The paper I printed on is gorgeous, and has an almost iridescent quality. The prints show no signs of degradation, and still look beautifu...
- 2024-01-14 09:43
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Thanks again everyone for listening and commenting. Next time I do recordings I'll pay close attention to the location of the microphones on the phone. In the room I prefer Brasso too. That such small changes as reversing the washers makes an audible difference implies to me that my Espeks as a syst...
- 2024-01-13 16:24
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Vinyl Revival
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9713
Vinyl Revival
I just came out of a tiny record shop in Stroud Gloucestershire that was packed with 20-somethings buying vinyl from the 70s and 80s. The last time I experienced this, I was one of the 20-somethings, and it was the 80s. Plus I bought 3 albums for a total of £15. It's like I'd time travelled back nea...
- 2024-01-13 13:42
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Yes apologies for the different recording quality. I don't know why they are so different, as I tried to keep everything the same on the phone.
- 2024-01-13 09:48
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Thanks for the suggestions!
I wasn't patient enough to wait, so I've done some more tests.
Which do you prefer:
Brasso: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qttYjkqBECJjgv7q8
Brassic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yXrFMtCXeUAgCxcAA
Air: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tjJcQgotKGqo3eXj7
I wasn't patient enough to wait, so I've done some more tests.
Which do you prefer:
Brasso: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qttYjkqBECJjgv7q8
Brassic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yXrFMtCXeUAgCxcAA
Air: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tjJcQgotKGqo3eXj7
- 2024-01-11 22:01
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
The base and its 3 sets of washers (between the limestone and cabinet, underneath the bolt heads, between the spike lock nuts and the limestone) along with the spikes themselves seem to be quite influential on the sound. I've finally got a set up that I can reliably dismantle and reassemble without ...
- 2024-01-06 23:05
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Hermanns System
- Replies: 652
- Views: 652218
Re: Hermanns System
I find these tricky. I’m happy to listen to A or B, but if pushed for a preference would choose A.
- 2024-01-06 19:01
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
- 2024-01-06 09:54
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Thanks for the kind comments. I'm delighted with how it sounds, and how engaging it is. I'm quite visual, and I take a lot of photographs, so to me the 'brass' seemed to snap the music into crisp focus. Before it had been a little blurry, but I was only aware of this after the change. The change I m...
- 2024-01-05 19:56
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Playground for practical listening exercises
- Replies: 7108
- Views: 5351091
Re: Playground for practical listening exercises
Which do you prefer?
Brass https://photos.app.goo.gl/SbAYeVoSH3NsEFU29
Steel https://photos.app.goo.gl/aroJw3pmjokXQw567
Brass https://photos.app.goo.gl/SbAYeVoSH3NsEFU29
Steel https://photos.app.goo.gl/aroJw3pmjokXQw567
- 2024-01-05 07:58
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Linn Factory Tour
- Replies: 7
- Views: 26729
- 2024-01-04 09:23
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Linn Factory Tour
- Replies: 7
- Views: 26729
Re: Linn Factory Tour
I've seen a couple of these factory tour videos and I find them interesting (I find manufacturing factories and their solutions to the different challenges fascinating anyway - my favourite factory tour was of AEI cables near Chester-Le-Street). The Linn team come across as very proud of their histo...
- 2024-01-01 19:16
- Forum: Lejonklou
- Topic: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
- Replies: 327
- Views: 303091
Re: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
Ah! So it was right first time ... I will revert to non-inverted. Thanks!
- 2024-01-01 18:58
- Forum: Lejonklou
- Topic: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
- Replies: 327
- Views: 303091
Re: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
I could not find any reference to phase in the set up instructions, but it is mentioned here: https://www.lejonklou.com/tips/how-to-c ... -to-boazu/macrotech2 wrote: ↑2024-01-01 18:53 I saw that about inverted phase and wondered whether it was correct? I don’t recall hearing anything about that before.
- 2024-01-01 18:37
- Forum: Lejonklou
- Topic: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
- Replies: 327
- Views: 303091
Re: Lejonklou Boazu Integrated Amp
A great review, and I learnt that I've been listening to my Boazu with inverted phase since I got it, now corrected.
I'm not sure I can hear a difference that matters ...
I'm not sure I can hear a difference that matters ...