Essential System

Harold-not-the-barrel,BTW, if you have any elastomer, I find a sheet of antivibration material does wonders beneath the spikes of my tonearm stands. Just cut out circles the size of say a 1...

posted over 11 years ago

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Essential System

Hi Harold-not-the-barrel,If you contact Gunther at Acoustic Signature, he can provide an aluminium armboard to your specifications. I simply took my spare ones off my Mambo, drilled and tap...

posted over 11 years ago

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Essential System

Hi,I had the misfortune of my XV-1s going down at a time when repair was financially beyond me. This was before I found the services of Axel Schurholz and so I sold it. Hence the arm sat ar...

posted almost 12 years ago

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Chris,Just to let you know (regarding your Lenco), I used to have my A.S. Mambo and its attachments sat on my wall shelf (pre-SP10) and so you should have no problems with a mere 100 lbs:~)...

posted about 13 years ago

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Thanks Chris,I will consider the legs but at the moment I am tied up with other commitments. Do keep me abreast of developments and good luck.As always

posted about 13 years ago

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hi Chris,The rollers will support the weight. However, have you tried the AT616's directly under the SP10? I wonder if that wouldn't seem to offer a possible reduction in the number of poin...

posted about 13 years ago

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hi Halcro,As I said and as you clarify, and as far as I can follow things, I think we do agree. And all I mean in using the term 'grounding' is the traditional sense of securing physical co...

posted about 13 years ago

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hi Halcro,I agree (inevitably) with your assessment of the optimum balancing of a rectangle requiring four legs. However, the issue of the contact area (of say the AT616's) and method (in t...

posted about 13 years ago

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Essential System

Hi Henry,Thanks for the compliments and the suggestions around TT set up. The tonearm base works wonderfully well and brings a very high level of "being thereness to things". I've...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

Just one quick point, with the Symposium svelte's beneath the velodynes, I could replace my earlier 30kg weight from the top of them to a mere 14kg weight. This allows for increased aesthetic optio...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

Hi All,The problem with the imaging was no problem but the result of improvements in resolution through the nude TT and isolated tonearm approach. A case in point was given in some minor ch...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

Following my above appraisal of the detached and nude set up, I should just add that I feel slightly sensitive to (or curious about) the psychoacoustic elements in hifi. For example, I am not certa...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

System edited: I have added photographs of the new isolated arm tower arrangement, under the heading 'Arm Tower AS'. My findings for this arrangement have been post elsewhere on Audiogon but I take...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

System edited: I am now convinced that a nude Technics SP10 Mk2 and decoupled arm tower bring unexpected but spectacular results. The closest to a live performance I have yet obtained. I would real...

posted over 13 years ago

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OTLs and ESLs

Apologies,Posted on the wrong thread!!!

posted over 13 years ago

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OTLs and ESLs

Halcro,I'm having difficulties with the spiked stand-alone arm column. It definitely increases the bottom end and midrange bloom in my system but I feel it does so excessively and moves me ...

posted over 13 years ago

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Essential System

System edited: Tring the nude Technics with an independent (customized) Acoustic Signature Mambo armboard column stood on 8mm spikes. These are sat on a sheet of industrial viscoelastic material an...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Essential System

Just to confirm that the choice of material for use in the armboard is very important for the sound you achieve with the Technics on pneumatic footers. At present, the solid ash armboard is the bes...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Matt's System

Hi Matt,Just to say hi and note that your system has moved on in leaps and bounds since last we spoke. Congratulations and I'd still love to hear it at some future point.Happy liste...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Essential System

Hi All,Just to report back on a strange and illuminating event. All of my family went away visiting the in-laws last weekend and there were absolutely no electronic devices on except my sys...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Single Ended Journey

Hi Ddriveman,Excellent news and congratulations again. I've not heard an FR-7F and will have to decide on and find an MC at some future point (mainly because the MC section of my Essential ...

posted about 14 years ago

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Single Ended Journey

Hi Ddriveman,Excellent news and congratulations again. I've not heard an FR-7F and will have to decide on and find an MC at some future point (mainly because the MC section of my Essential ...

posted about 14 years ago

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Single Ended Journey

Hi Ddriveman,Congrat's on the AKG acquisition. Are you planning to have it touched up by VdH (who Raul suggests made the original stylus)?I'd be really keen to hear your views once ...

posted about 14 years ago

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Essential System

What I have confirmed in my recent experimentations with the set up of my turntable is the old adage that resonance management and isolation is a difficult art. To manage vibration in your system n...

posted about 14 years ago

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Sublime Sound

I truly like your system. Your environment sounds very similar to mine and I am impressed with your choices of equipment. I have at one time or another owned or almost bought most of these componen...

posted about 14 years ago

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