sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@edsel95 Thank you. More wood now...just built some DIY cable lifters. Adding pics soon. Some will debate the merits of such a project, but at a ...

posted about 3 years ago

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Deja Vu all over again!

A system worthy of a great audiogoner! Genius choices for a smaller room. Cheer, Jon.Spencer

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Slaw...

Love it, Steve!We gotta talk vinyl cleaning one day. It looks like a vinylstack is used with your US machine...that's what I use...followed by some DIY hacked rinses/vacuum. 

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edsel95's Music Room System

Very nice rig and beautiful room, enjoy @edsel95 Cheers,Spencer

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Main System

Hi @no_regrets, popped over here after reading your post about the Wavestream. Did that replace the Artemis? I have heard so little about Wavestream in the last ...

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jjss49's System

Boy, I bet you have a lot of fun in there! Well done. Cheers,Spencer

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Added NOS Tel Wire HC Cord power cable on the Krell amp, Cord PCs on preamp and DAC and Connect XLRs from phono stage to preamp.

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jl1ny's System

Wonderful system! Enjoying your networking thread which led me here. Cheers!

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Music Room - North

@tomic601 I recall you selling that one to your buddy. For some reason, I was thinking you have another with a 4Point arm.

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Music Room - North

@tomic601 Among the loveliest of rigs in the loveliest of rooms. Is that the Kuzma in the VTA pic?

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Just ordered a Hart record cleaning brush after watch Fremer's shootout video. This will replace my Acoustech Big Brush.

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

James, wonderful setup! The K'horns visually look just right style-wise in your room, too. Bet it sounds great.Years ago, I owned a Berning ZH-270 amp and was very impressed wit...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Inakustik Reference USB cable added between the opticalRendu and the Denafrips Pontus II DAC

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I'm done (mostly)

Let's see the new table! & Congrats.

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notdeadyet System

If you can't pull the speakers forward, you might try some absorption behind them and a diffusor between them. You may find this cleans up bass clarity and improves focus.

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notdeadyet System

@notdeadyet Nice job!  Have you ever tried playing around with speaker placement? Getting them out 1,2, or 3 ft. from the wall may provide significant impro...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Added a new piece of art in the listening room. Concert poster from my first show at Austin City Limits' Moody Theater.

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@slaw Yes, she is. I tell her so every day!

posted almost 4 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

I bought the Nagra used 3 yrs. ago, so can't really say about "over the years". It sounds pretty fine; dead quiet(it's battery powered) and very natural, detailed and spacious. I pondered an u...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@slaw Hi Steve,The amp stand and matching one now under my Sota are made by my wife. We bought huge pieces of essentially maple butcherblock ...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Returned the CAT8 cables in favor of unshielded CAT6 from Blue Jean Cable. Due to reconfiguring the physical arrangement of my oRendu I needed a more typical length USB cable, so I'm temporarily us...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Replaced the Netgear switch connecting my digital gear with a Trendnet switch suggested by Andrew at Small Green Computer. Replacing some generic CAT5e cables with CAT8s over the next few days. Cur...

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mijostyn's System

Looking great, Mike! Let's get some listening impressions up soon. Congrats,SpencerPS: My wife is going to be jealous of your wood shop. She made my amp stands, diffu...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Hey Mike, The recording of Fantasia was a gift from the Philadelphia Area Audio Group, when I had to resign as President due to my relocation to Austin, TX. The writing are comments from membe...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Joni Mitchell is the 2021 inductee to "Spencer's Wall of Genius"  https://imgur.com/ei2OHuq

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