sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: Sold the CAT preamp. Next move will likely be to sell my CD player to help finance an amp upgrade to the nice, but more expensive Joule Electra amps.

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Aronsss,Here’s exactly what was used for the rack:Qty/Item/Description/Source/PriceFooters: 4 2.0AP-1oint 2”Audio Point Internal Thread 5/8”[email protected] Depth Star Sound Technologie...

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Gunbei's Messy Listening Room

Gunbei, still listening to the AudioMirror dac? Whatcha' think of it vs. Ack etc? Thanks,Spencer

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Music Sweet Music!!!!

Hey Ray,Just noticed you had the AudioMirror DAC. Did you compare to Scott Nixon, Ack or other similar dacs? Thinking about trying something like this myself. Any suggestions? Thanks,Spencer

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Music Sweet Music!!!!

Hey Ray,Just noticed you had the AudioMirror DAC. Did you compare to Scott Nixon, Ack or other similar dacs? Thinking about trying something like this myself. Any suggestions? Thanks,Spencer

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: System edited: Just added a Joule Electra LA100mkIII line stage and OPS1mkV phono stage. Hoping to eventually add Joule Electra monoblock amps, and I've always thought the Joule amps...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Hi Robert,Using Cardas Golden Reference. Spencer

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Lampizator, Doshi, Joule, Teres, Audio Physic

Outlier,Perhaps a wall-mounted shelf for the turntable would work for you. I've seen a few ads here from a company called quadraspire, or something like that. They looked pretty nice. Cheers,

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Music Sweet Music!!!!

Ray,Audiopoints are pretty cool, huh? Have 'em under my rack, too. The only others I've seen that are equal or better are the Walker Valid Points. Your system has come a long way fast! Don'...

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Music Sweet Music!!!!

Ray,Audiopoints are pretty cool, huh? Have 'em under my rack, too. The only others I've seen that are equal or better are the Walker Valid Points. Your system has come a long way fast! Don'...

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Lampizator, Doshi, Joule, Teres, Audio Physic

Outlier,Love your system. I'm listening to a friends' Supratek Chenin right now, as an experiment in system. I also have an Airy 3, and love it. The 255 is one of my favorite tables, great both...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

David,I agree that room treatments can make a huge improvement. I first tried some Roomtunes products, but they did little in this room. Chances are that I didn't have enough coverage of surfac...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: A couple of minor tweaks added to system description...comments, suggestions welcomed. Cheers, Spencer

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Mark,Thanks. I like you system a lot, too. I had Quad 63s prior to getting my Merlins. In fact, the midrange of the Quads were Bobby's starting point when he designed the Merlins. The Supra...

posted over 19 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Joe, thanks for the kind words.Larry, I'll check out the rollerblocks. right now I'm using the DH ceramic cones under the Berning. Others have recommended Stillpoints. All these details add...

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Hi Steve,It's 23.5x16x9'. I haven't tried anything under the rug. Have you experimented with that? You might not have seen them in the photos, but I do have two absorptive ceiling panels on...

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Glenn & John,Thanks for your comments. Glenn, you will be amazed at how much better things sound than in the other room. Come on over anytime; I've got my Clash records ready to cue up!...

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System edited: Just moved to a new larger room, and spent the last month working out the kinks. Custom room treatments, designed by Bryan Pape of Sensible Sound Solutions, were the key to taming hu...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Larry,Wow, a pair of ZH-270s will be awesome. You should post you whole system when you get a chance. I've read plenty about your tonearm ;-)

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Hey Larry,Just saw your note. The Extreme SST lives up to the hype in my opinion. I've only had it on through about 12 hours of listening, about 6 each analog and digital. I've not yet treated ...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: Just upgraded my Merlin BAM to Super-BAM. The improvements are immediate and well worth the modest cost. I'm continuously amazed at how far the VSM-MX has allowed me to take my syste...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: Just treated my system with Walker Audio Extreme SST. Will post comments after a few hours break-in time. Also placed Gingko Audio Mini Clouds under the cdp, a small but obvious impr...

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Howard,Brass hardware: www.master.com Call them & ask them to look up my(Spencer Bank/Brandywine Creamery) invoices for the model numbers to get. We used a shelf from Salamander as a template(s...

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Hi Larry,I went with the silver coils and silver base, per Mehran's recommendation. I've only got about 10 hours on it so far, but it sounds very good already. The whole setup is very quiet, ex...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

System edited: Analog upgrade completed. Very happy with the new gear, it sounds better every day! Cheers, Spencer

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