Great stuff - I'll dig my diary out and send a few dates. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
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Great stuff - I'll dig my diary out and send a few dates. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Hi Jerry,
Sent you a pm regards your Chameleon Ruby amp.
Thanks;
Pete
New toy! :yay:
System as is today ....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps8d90fa3d.jpg
New toy close-up ...
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...psfc21dc1c.jpg
And a couple of AOSers were kind enough to come a-visiting today. Good time - good company, good music. :thumbsup:
Great sesh yesterday, Jerry! Nice seeing you again and really enjoyed listening to your system - especially your superb MBLs! :) Your tweaked Techy CDP is none too shabby either... ;)
Good choice of choons, too - liked all the stuff you played. Do you remember most of it? A playlist would be good, so I can compile a shopping list :eyebrows:
Nice munchies too, so thanks for that. Nice to meet your good lady as well. I think she made a good job of the gardening! Anyway, you'd both be welcome to pop round to our place anytime, so give us a shout next time you're in the area :cool:
Marco.
Thanks Marco, it was very nice seeing you and the friend who may not wish to be named. Lots of interesting music! :)
Yeah, the MBLs aren't too shabby, are they. Quite possibly the perfect speaker for me.
Yesterday's playlist --- oo-err --- from my collection ---
The Essential Dougie McClean
Philip Glass Akhnaten
Nazareth "Hair of the Dog"
The Buggles "Age of Plastic"
Elizabeth Valletti - Innocenti
Eddy Louiss - Sang Mele (Blues for Klook)
Caroline Lavelle - Brilliant Midnight
Shostakovich Piano Trio
Perotin Beata viscera (the girl in the cathedral in the rain ;))
Loreena McKennit Nights from the Alhambra DVD live concert
Yello Touch - virtual concert DVD & CD
--- I may have missed some :scratch:
Nice one, Jerry. What about the blues dude, Marvyn Taylor, or something? That was top notch! :)
Marco.
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Originally Posted by jandl100
Thanks for having us round, really enjoyed the visit, system was sounding excellent.
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Originally Posted by jandl100
Mervyn/Marvyn Taylor?
Of course! How could I forget introducing you to a great guitarist! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by snapper
Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band
Ta Jerry. Great guitarist indeed.
:)
Magnetic levitation - aka Floating on the Flux :smoking:
A recent eBay purchase - 4 footers with opposed magnets which allow kit to literally float on air. :eek:
See details and review here http://www.stereotimes.com/acc083109.shtml
I got heavy duty ones, designed to support 5-8Kg per footer.
Under my vintage Techie cdp they didn't do much really. And I had to weight the CDP down or the player wasn't heavy enough to push the top magnet down! :(
There's not enough shelf headroom for them placed under my Mingy Dah valve amp, so that was a no-goer, too. :(
But a couple of days ago the Minging One was set aside as I felt a sandy urge and my NAD S300 amp was re-installed.
It floats perfectly on 3 of the footers. :D
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps72e261ff.jpg
Look closely at the footer on the left in the next pic and you can see a small gap between top and bottom parts - that's the air the amp is floating on - amazing! :D
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps25902b21.jpg
Lightly touch the amp and it rocks. :eyebrows:
Just floating on air, man, floating on air. :smoking:
OK - the internals of the footer have to be exerting lateral pressure and touching, but it must be very well isolated from shelf borne vibration.
Soundwise, unlike the Techie cdp I hear a big improvement with the amp. Imaging is way more 3D and err, hanging in space - like the amp! Everything sounds a lot more real and present and solidly grounded. There's a more subtle and detailed portrayal of small scale dynamic changes. Dare I say that it makes the NAD sound a lot more like a valve amp?
Although why it seems to have an effect on kit without moving parts (the amp) but little or none on a wildly vibrating CD spinner is a matter worthy of some thought! :scratch: