For me it killed the slap echo and helps ameliorate the bass nodes in the corners, it doesn't do a huge amount for the bass but enough to be worthwhile.
For me it killed the slap echo and helps ameliorate the bass nodes in the corners, it doesn't do a huge amount for the bass but enough to be worthwhile.
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Nice one, Simon - you got there in the end! I'd love to hear it sometime
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Nah, he'd have got a spanko from Branko!
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Hi Andrew, its very cheap on ebay the more you buy the cheaper it is. The long stand up one's in the pic I made myself by sticking the foam to carboard carpet tubes. In one word on improvements "everything". Best to buy a couple at a time then just keep adding, there really is no going back after using these panels, just don't go too far or you will kill the sound. I would say buy some I don't think you'll regret it
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Obviously varies from rom to room, but a possible way to try is to damp the area behind you and keep the speaker area slightly more "lively," as in a concert hall, where one os surrounded by others in the audience. You don't need to overdo it, but I remember hearing a heavily treated (by a qualified acoustician) room thus done, and the speakers played in it sounded amazing, even the little cheapies he had just sounded "smaller" than the bigger models, rather than significantly inferior.. Sorry if it's granny sucking eggs here, as many of you will have far more practical experience than I.
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It is very easy to go over the top with room treatments and it is one of the few things that i would only do with a room measurement set-up on hand. When I originally put mine up there was a lot of back and forth over a couple of weeks, while I had one of Keith's Trinnovs to hand to measure the room. I ended up removing and replacing quite a few areas of treatment that helped the room to measure flat, but killed the reverberation, no one wants a completely dead room after all because music isn't mixed in completely dead rooms.
Branko was very... accommodating ;-)
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I agree you can go over the top and kill the sound. I did a few main areas of the room listened for a week or so then added again and so on till I was happy with it. I have spent alot of cash on hi fi over the past 20yrs and in my opinion the £130 I spent on these panels was by far the biggest upgrade I have ever heard.. Every room is going to be differant ie furniture carpets wood floors, but I think whatever your room is there would be benifits from these panels just dont over do it....
Jason