Music for the soulYour room is beautiful (as is your dog--great photo) and you're absolutely right that the room is an important part of the system. If you can get it right fundamentally (replacing sheetrock with so... posted over 14 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneNo problem, glad I could help.Happy listening! posted over 14 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneHello Sbayne,It's a beautiful system you've put together there, the Vosne-Romanee is one of my favorite preamps. I just wanted to point out that you have the Nines reversed, right-for-left.... posted over 14 years ago | View comment | |
living roomBTW, is your tag inspired by the Van Morrison album? posted over 15 years ago | View comment | |
living roomThe Yamaha was set-up as a secondary, parallel system with it's own speaker wires attached. It was used mostly by my wife so she didn't have to deal with the "worry" of tubes. My thought ... posted over 15 years ago | View comment | |
New Home, Revised SystemBTW, I noticed that the Nines in your photo are reversed, left-for-right. The tweeters should be towards the outer edges when viewed from the listening position. This makes a considerable differenc... posted about 16 years ago | View comment | |
New Home, Revised SystemHey Cmaronmurphy,Beautiful system--well put together!, I love the rack of vintage front-end components (tuner/open-reel). I noticed you've got some sort of footers under the cones of The Ni... posted about 16 years ago | View comment | |
Modest Apartment SystemGreat, thanks for the kind words! Tell your boss I'm (slightly) sorry. Your grilles shipped today, make sure you remove them for real listening.Cheers,John DeVore posted about 16 years ago | View comment | |
Modest Apartment SystemHi Chris,Looks like a really nice set-up, I like the IT-85 with those speakers a lot. From the pics, it looks like you don't have the machined brass cones under the speakers, is that a choice y... posted about 16 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHey Linnie01,One reason I've got so many LPs is because I'm a voracious musical omnivore--I like all types of music. That rear-wall cabinet holds rock/pop etc, with the bottom row giving ov... posted about 16 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHi Jg47,No, the 'table is just for fun, just for me. I've been playing around with turntable ideas almost as long as I've been playing around with speakers. They're similar in a way. posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHello Bluecirclehead,The tweeters in the Super 8s are about 26 inches from the floor, though the adjustable feet make that variable. They are designed to be set-up with a tip-back or rake-angle... posted over 16 years ago | View comment | |
living roomSystem edited: Added pics of the Luxman tuner and Yamaha integrated. posted about 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomThe default speakers in my livingroom are Super 8s, though everything rotates through there sometime. Have fun with the 8s (or do you mean Super 8s?)! posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomSystem edited: Updated with current pics of the front end, and some amps... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Where Music Is MadeHi Wayne,I'm retyping/sending this, the first time doesn't seem to have gotten to you. It was great meeting you at Pitch Perfect Audio in January, that was fun--a great group of guys. I hop... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Sounding niceLooks great, though I have to agree with a few other guys, you should move your speakers onto stands. Not just to get them better placed, but you've got them on the same surface as you turntable. A... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHi Jim, Glad to hear you liked The Nines, Don is a truly great guy. My equipment rack is by a company called Salamander, and it's their modular "Synergy" system. Not exactly audiophile, b... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHi Bluecirclehead,It's a knock-off Nelson, but a real one is in our future.The super 8s will do pretty-much what you'd expect without toe-in, a bit less image focus, larger but more... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomHi Iglun,Thanks for the kind comments. Yes that would be a pretty early pair, within the first couple hundred or so. Do you still have them (or know where they are)? There are significant upgra... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomThanks Pdreher, it's an old, unrenovated NY tenement, so the floors are actually wide, soft pine. Very springy, so I had to mount the t-table up on the (brick) wall. I see you use the Synergy racks... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
Hi Fi LifeNice job Shaunepp, this looks like a great sounding system. I used the Eclipse, P-5 and W-5 a couple of years ago for the Silverbacks at the New York show. Great gear and those Sim guys are great t... posted over 17 years ago | View comment | |
living roomThanks Linnie01, High praise from an analog fan such as you. And it does get warm, especially when I fire up the 130! posted over 17 years ago | View comment |