Mika K's system

[Mika K]

Thanks guys..

[stupinder]

Thanks guys..

Mika, you have lovely system, a lovely home and a lovely child. Enjoy

[Mika K]

^Thanks.

Let's still put another one for a display as yesterday enjoyed a small concert at our living room while Mrs.Mrok had to work at evening shift at the hospital. The highly skilled and energetic guitar duo played mostly Fröbelin Palikat and Hevisaurus, which are finnish rock bands for kids..

[Spectral Morn]

^Thanks.

Let's still put another one for a display as yesterday enjoyed a small concert at our living room while Mrs.Mrok had to work at evening shift at the hospital. The highly skilled and energetic guitar duo played mostly Fröbelin Palikat and Hevisaurus, which are finnish rock bands for kids..

Fantastic photo

[The Black Adder]

Really great photo, Mika. Well cool...

[Firebottle]

There is most likely the only stacked 3-pair Quad ESL system in Europe.

No wonder he has a smile on his face
Spotted the Transcendent grounded grid pre-amp on the rack, anybody had experience of this unit?

Cheers, Alan

[Wakefield Turntables]

Yeah and that looks like a series whest phono stage as well

[Mika K]

You have sharp eyes both of you My friend indeed has modified Transcendent grounded grid preamp and also 3 pairs of power amps. And Whest phonoamp of course for his Michell deck with Origin Live tonearm and Lyra cartridge.

Have actually compared that preamp to to my Shindo Aurieges MM and my other friends Airtight preamp. Bit more robust and lush sounding I think but considering the price point very strong performer. Have heard that those things have been modded quite a bit with some good results..

During the past weeks have been planning some acoustic treatment to my room which you can see above. This is because have found out the GIK Tri-traps to be very useful at the room corners and have visited few dedicated listening rooms with some convincing treatments and sounds.

Thinking of hanging some acoustic panels to the room with some air behind them to absorb general reflections and to minimize the measured echo time for the room. Already ordered these few days back and think can start the installation during the weekend of next week the latest. Also planning to build some bigger QRD diffusor panels to replace the the acoustic panel hanging behind the set but this might take bit longer

As my back wall already has wall wide and tall shelves filled with LPs, books and boardgames think these actions will be enough and raise the performance of my system to a whole new level. At least I think they should what have been discussing with few acoustics gurus here in Finland. Will report when have some progress.

[MartinT]

Yeah and that looks like a series whest phono stage as well

Yes, it certainly is.

[Mika K]

Room treatment - stage one

Yesterday took down old acoustic panels from my walls after new ones arrived. The new ones are made by finnish company Ecophon and the model is Master SQ in size 120 x 60 x 4 cm.

I started by installing two panels to the ceiling of my room with 6cm air behind them. The idea was to locate these approx. to the middle of the roon to absorb the early reflections coming from the ceiling and by first listening this solution seems to work pretty well.



Continued already to prepare three panels to the main wall behind the speakers. Will put these in three segments also with some air behind them to improve their qualities and plan also to add some diffusive elements on top of them. Hopefully I will have time to do this during the weekend..