OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Added 3 pictures.

posted about 15 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Hi Spencer - nice to hear from you again in nearly 2yrs. Yes, the room is coming along, albiet slowly. The GIK gear really kick-started the acoustical treatment process and it's evolved into a seri...

posted about 15 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Adjusted the low frequency limits that my DIY Skyline diffusers work to. The original theory of Schroeder diffusers (written by Schroeder himself) gave the "design wavelength" of suc...

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Just finished building another DIY Skyline 2-D diffusor for the rear part of the right side wall beneath a small window. Used a prime number of 547, primitive root=2, 26 columns by 2...

posted over 15 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: decided to add the 2 dimensional Sklyine diffusion to the list of acoustic treatments. If anyone wants to know how to build a DIY Skyline diffuser, email me and I'd be glad to share.

posted over 15 years ago

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Meitner Tidal Bertram AM Hiend Amps

Hi Schwinnindia - that certainly is an impressive laundy list of equipment you've churned through - must have been fun I bet! Do you drive your amp(s) directly with the Meridian 808i.2 given that i...

posted over 15 years ago

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DAD + Tidal + Bertram + AM Hiend Amps

Hi Schwinnindia - that certainly is an impressive laundy list of equipment you've churned through - must have been fun I bet! Do you drive your amp(s) directly with the Meridian 808i.2 given that i...

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Hi Pat - sorry no pics yet as I'm waiting until the finished product is available before posting. As far as 'before' pics are concerned, just picture 4 bare walls and a white short-pile carpet on t...

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: After doing some research on small room acoustics and speaking with small room acoustic expert Dr Earl Geddes, I've rearranged some of the treatments I have. In general, there can't ...

posted over 15 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: updated some product descriptions.

posted almost 16 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Musicfile - I agree, Bryan at GIK is very customer focused and generous with his time. I have a big 80Hz peak and he's taken time to suggest numerous locations of bass traps to try out, measure, mo...

posted almost 16 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Hi Musicfile,Nice to hear from you again. I see we both are GIK customers. Did you event end up getting cables from an upstart company in the US when I purchased your Audience power cord?

posted almost 16 years ago

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Wilsons, darTZeel, Vinyl and Tubes

Rugyboogie - great system! It's hard to tell from the pictures is you have some/a lot of acoustic room treatments. If so, mind sharing what and where it's placed?Thanks,kevin

posted about 16 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Added more acoustic room treatments consisting of (i)5 Monster bass traps, (ii)8 D1 diffusers, (iii)4 242 mid/high frequency absorbers. It really is great how the sound of the room c...

posted about 16 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Just added some acoustic room treatments from GIK Acoustics. Still sorting out best location for the 1 Monster bass trap and difusers.

posted about 16 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: replaced the AudienceAU 24 interconnect with TG Audio HSR high purity silver cable. Less 'dry' sounding than the AU24.

posted almost 17 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Added great speaker cables by TG Audio.

posted about 17 years ago

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From 'Stats to Horns.... a journey

Hi Chris,Great gear, great room, great music storage shelves!It looks like you've mixed some RealTraps Mondo(?) by the left speaker with ASC Tube Traps by the middle of the front wall. What...

posted over 17 years ago

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Matt's System

Hi Matt - can you share with us where you've placed your RealTraps & RPG acoustic treatment goodies? Are the Skylines on your ceiling or front wall or behind the listener etc etc - same goes for th...

posted over 17 years ago

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as good as i'll ever need!!

Calloway - excellent system! If only you had some pictures to share . . .Any update/news on your speaker wire show down with the Champion 'Pranawire' VS the Challenger 'JPS Aluminata'?

posted over 17 years ago

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Now that the piano has moved.

Nice system Gary! I once heard some Piega speakers at an Audiophile's home in Toronto and they were really great sounding, also driven by tubes amps but from the Granite company as I recall. Have y...

posted over 17 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Elberoth2 and Glenfihi -- thanks for your notes and compliments. The up-front planning is indeed crucial. I had to deal with the limitation of a 7' ceiling height in my basement and two cement bric...

posted over 17 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Sold my First Sound Presence Deluxe MKII preamp as it was redundant with the preamp functionality within the Audio Aero Capitole CD player.

posted over 17 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

Sbank (Spencer),Thanks for the compliment on the room. I plan on updating the pictures shortly. I was playing around with speaker positioning and measuring SPL levels with my Radio Shack meter ...

posted over 17 years ago

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OLD SYSTEM: A musical journey & love

System edited: Sold my equi-tech unit as the new dedicated music room has 4 dedicated circuits.

posted over 17 years ago

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