Gromit's music centre...

[istari_knight]

The best Royds IMO

... Wrong stands though

[Gromit]

... Wrong stands though

Definitely - from experience of trying a fair few different ones under my old Merlins, they like stuff with minimal (or at least low) mass. Best ones I used before were the Something Solid SL24's which worked better than the Royd and Linn Kan II stands.

These Target ones are >30kg each and you can hear them damping the Royds' energy. Still sound damn good though.

[Theo]

How about these? Just down the road...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epos-M12s-...item3cdc895ff1

[Gromit]

How about these? Just down the road...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epos-M12s-...item3cdc895ff1

Good spot Theo, thanks - I'll find out the dimension of the top of them.

I could also nick my old SL24's off my Dad this weekend - he can have these heavy Target ones in exchange.

[Yomanze]

Thanks for your recommendation a while back Richard the SL24s really are awesome for the 7l Royds. Interesting my RR3s go a lot deeper on their dedicated stands, which are bolted to the speakers via a rear plate.

[Gromit]

Thanks for your recommendation a while back Richard the SL24s really are awesome for the 7l Royds.

They're good aren't they?

It was Peter Empson at Deco Audio who got me onto them some years ago when I had some Audio Note AX-2's (a very underrated speaker imho) which sounded coarse on top of the Kan II stands. The SL24's tidied things up no end, but lost none of the energy and 'zip' which the Linn stands injected the proceedings with.

When I got my Merlins I put them onto the Kan stands and was very happy - the SL24's were sat in the garage un-used. Anyway, eventually I thought I'd try them under the Merlins and kapow! It was really taken aback at what they did - Royds are never shrinking violets, and can get a little uncouth at times as we all know, but the SL24's tamed that but didn't lose one single gramme of their bounce and life. Very highly recommended, and not expensive either.

[southall-1998]

How are you getting on with the Exposure, Gromit?

I like using Linn K20 speaker cables with my Exposure X. My K20 cables are 3M in length. Are Exposure fussy about cable lengths?

S.

[DSJR]

Shane, please take this with the inevitable pinch of salt, but K20 for some reason, sounds thick and bland in comparison with other speaker cables. I've heard this in several listening rooms over many years so not just the dem room I was most used to.

Surprised you like the Exposure X as well, as at the time I found it harsh and ringy when driven too hard. maybe the speaker cable damps it down?

[Gromit]

Shane, please take this with the inevitable pinch of salt, but K20 for some reason, sounds thick and bland in comparison with other speaker cables. I've heard this in several listening rooms over many years so not just the dem room I was most used to.

I'd agree with this.

I remember some years ago (ie back in the mid-late 80's) using Naim NACA4 and then 'upgrading' to K20 and it showed the exact behaviour Dave describes above. Something not quite right about it for me, sounded bland and seemed to kill the system's sparkle.

If you don't want to spend much, I really can't speak too highly of Talk 3 with Exposure - unless you can get the original Exposure cable (which looks like NACA5 but is a bit more flexible) which I still maintain, having tried a fair few cables with Exposure over the years, is the best to my ears. Am using NVA LS6 with my Expo XV which works extremely well - worth the £ over Talk 3? Only you can decide that.

[southall-1998]

I don't care, I like the K20 cables so tough

S.