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  1. #11
    Join Date: Jan 2008

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    It's the shirt-lifters you need to watch out for!

    Marco.
    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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  2. #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Some say...

    Depending on the dialectric used on a cable, it can emits a lesser or greater electric field which can interact with surrounding materials or surfaces, effecting the sound.
    Confucious says: man who leaves his wires dangling in the wind will inherit much floppiness around his middle leg.

    Marco.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Confucious says: man who leaves his wires dangling in the wind will inherit much floppiness around his middle leg.

    Marco.
    Wise words...
    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

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    You can use old corks (real Cork, not the imitation!) as well.
    Chris.

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    You can use old corks (real Cork, not the imitation!) as well.

    Then you could get serious and do THIS.......
    http://jeffsplace.me/wordpress/?p=2892
    Chris.

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    Crikey
    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

  7. #17
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    When I redecorated the lounge and before we had a new carpet fitted, I had a dedicated ring main installed solely for the audio gear. Whilst the floor boards were up, I took the opportunity to run some balanced line interconnects from my sources/preamp etc. to where the speakers sit and their monoblock poweramps located just behind them.

    No idea if it has improved the sound (after all, the change in carpet could make just as much a difference), but the 'no cable' looks a lot neater.
    Barry

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    Nothing better than a simple, easy and cheap tweak. More money to spend on cables and CD's.

  9. #19
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    Could be my eyes, but Gazjam's neat hook arrangement looks like it's on the skirting board, If so, off the carpet but against (in effect) the wall. My speaker cables are under the concrete floor (all 11 metres of them) in conduits, so I s'pose they're UNDER the carpet and nowhere near walls. In previous houses I've been blessed with suspended floors when it's easy to hide!

    BARRY, Was the dedicated ring main, whereas obviously an advance on sharing the domestic ring, a calculated plan, as opposed to a dedicated radial or more? Maybe the system/room ergonomics didn't justify going full hog, as it were, as everybody's situation is different.

    I used to extol the benefits of full dedication when I had Naim kit, but later, as I gradually changed over to bottled stuff, developed a totally unsubstantiated theory that whereas kit with toroidal trannies can and frequently does benefit by being taken off the domestic mains supply (as far as feasible), the trannies mostly (?) found in valved kit seemed not to derive the same improvement. Could be wrong here, and I'm way past experimenting!

    I've now got 8 x 6mm or 10mm T & E s in a convoluted 12 metre route to their own c.u. which are, if my theory holds water, largely redundant except for sheer convenience and debatable tidyness. They ain't eatin' anything, though, and the pain of installation is not a faded memory.

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    Hi Mike,

    I don't believe it is necessary to use a dedicated 'radial' system over a dedicated 'ring'. My audio-only ring comprises 16 sockets available not only for my speakers (like you I use electrostatic speakers), but for the permanent equipment (turntables, phonostages, CD player, tuner, preamp etc.) as well a few spare outlets for occasionally used items such as tape decks etc.

    The ring is protected by a separate Hager 32A RCCB connected to the meter via a 'Henley block'.

    I can understand the reasoning behind using a radial system, but IMO it is only of help in reducing the the noise fed back into the mains supply generated by SMPSs used within your own audio system. In my case, none of the power supplies used are SMPSs.
    Barry

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