Plinth is many layer of birch ply topped with curly maple top, after all hundreds of ace guitar makers must know something?
Micro Seiki MA-505 LS arm and various MM and MC carts
Rega Planar 2
Heavily modified Rega Planar 2 to play mostly mono albums.
Plinth is 3 times the thickness, Vibrapods feet, newer ac motor and IEC connector built into plinth so can run any PC you like, Cardas wired tonearm with 5 pin phono plug, Groove tracer platter, metal sub platter from England with the corresponding Zaphire ball bearing, custom bronze counter weight .
Gave it a test run with the included Nagoaka110 cart and I have to say it sounded pretty darn good.
Now fitted with Ortofon 2m Mono cart and stylus.
Avid Diva SP mk II
New to me belt drive TT.
Origin Live Encounter mk3c tone arm
Ortofon Black Cadenza cartridge.
Gold Note Ph-10
Vincent PHO-8
Nice little phono just for the Rega mono table
Spatial Audio M3 Triode Master
OMG....
Nagaoka MP-150
Glorious bargain price mm cart that kicks bottom way above its station.
Scheu Analog MC SL cartridge
Koetsu Black GoldLine
First truly high end lomc cartridge
Ortofon 2M Mono
Ortofon Black Cadenza
Dynavector Karat 23RS
Very sweet NOS example I picked up on eBay of all places
Nakamichi ZX-7
Oh lordy, they just get better and better!
Sonore ultraRendu
Metrum Acoustics Onyx
Synergistic Research Blue fuses
Synergistic Research Blue Duplex
Western Electric Speaker Cables
Straightwire Encore 2
All analog RCA/XLR interconnects
Perfect Path Technologies E-Mats, E -Cards, TC paste
So yes now the Avid does sound as sweet as it looks with new brass spindle and able to clamp the record down to the platter. This is the way it is designed and with no clamping force the record is just floating in free air as it does not just exactly lay flat on the platter.
Now have to figure out best way to get all three TT online into a two input phono stage......
Tbh if I have reflections off the glass sliding doors I can't honestly say it is bothering me any.
Saying that I had been thinking of adding some heavy pull to drapes on my room side right there.
This should damp anything if there was an issue and is wife friendly, diffuser panels are not unfortunately. Maybe when I move I can have my own music room where I can do what the heck I like without having to keep it looking like a designer room!
So far my pair of Martin Logan subs seem to be dialed in very well for the very bottom end. Even seated fairly close to one I can't detect anything coming from it.
Not surprised you missed the Joseph's, after all I do change it up. But the Joseph's had been around a while and were the subject of a thread betwixt them and the Devores.
As far as Abbey Rd, no we did not record there. We had recorded at a studio closer to home BUT the mixing and mastering was all done at Abbey Rd Studios.
And I just had to go to see and hear it and soak up the atmosphere. Experience I do not regret or will ever forget.
Slaw Due to wifely and homely and keeping the peace constraints no treatments are allowed besides ones that look like part of the room, so 3 very large squishy sofas, full rug covering tiled floor, full length wooden blinds on all 3 other windowed walls. Not really much I can do with the glass doors in and out as this room is also a family sun room.
As I have said previously it is possibly one of the worst rooms you could wish for but the sq I have garnered out of it always surprises myself. Will be moving in under 2 years and then it will be a different story ( I hope!)
As to the Maggies... simply eye opening in most aspects. I think the forced speaker placement in my room REALLY suits these speakers.
Vast improvement in vocals, acoustic instruments, mid range and shockingly bass! Maybe not quite as low bass as previous but much more controlled and distinguishable from note to note, definitely not a one note bass system!
Very very musical is where I am right now and very happy with the basic core system so concentrating on tweaks and such.
