Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades

[Ron Resnick]

No; we are still many weeks away from hearing music in the room. But it is an exciting question to ponder! I’d say “Send in the Clowns” is an excellent nomination!

The record/tape storage unit (with a light strip in the ceiling of each cubbyhole!) is scheduled to be installed on November 22. It will be exciting to unbox the records after eight years of storage, and to learn what records I have, and how many of them.

 

[christoph]

i am sure it will involve clowns!

Hallelujah would probably be more appropriate

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

tell us you will be doing some unboxings of equipment

 

[PeterA]

Hallelujah, I’ve got the music in me as I walk with the clowns through the great gates of Kyiv

 

[rando]

tell us you will be doing some unboxings of equipment

That can be a serious undertaking where professional associations have been established. Would be a project throwing it together amongst managing everything else surrounding this highly personal and gratifying event.


Just for the sake of discussion.

Preference shown towards unedited roving handheld mix of easy banter and capturing fluid [unboxing] movement silently orchestrated by someone comfortable in the limelight behind the camera, would meet accepted criteria. Transmute boxes into objects ready for transport to their display location - TIME!! Make or break atmospheric condition is orderly and neat teamwork dismissing packaging.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

That can be a serious undertaking where professional associations have been established. Would be a project throwing it together amongst managing everything else surrounding this highly personal and gratifying event.


Just for the sake of discussion.

Preference shown towards unedited roving handheld mix of easy banter and capturing fluid [unboxing] movement silently orchestrated by someone comfortable in the limelight behind the camera, would meet accepted criteria. Transmute boxes into objects ready for transport to their display location - TIME!! Make or break atmospheric condition is orderly and neat teamwork dismissing packaging.

Yes highly edited is just fine, don't have THAT kind of time, Lol. What ever is provided is just fine, its not like we haven't gone down this 7 year old road cyber road together!

 

[bonzo75]

In classical I like:



Beethoven 9th (minus the choir part)

This is what happens to those who don't respect the choir part

 

[the sound of Tao]

This is what happens to those who don't respect the choir part

The very last thing Beethoven needed was more frilly vocals Seriously, what does that guy know about music !!!

 

[caliaripaolo]

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The listening room has been painted, the carpet has been installed, and this morning I cleaned the wood floor loudspeaker/amplifier section in the front third of the room. I know this sounds absurd, but you can’t imagine how excited I was to be using a broom and a dust pan to clean the wood part of the listening room floor!

Just for fun I put in my inventory of ASC Tube Traps.

The photo of the front wall using some wide-angle lens function on the iPhone exaggerates grotesquely the actual size of the room. It’s about half the size of what it looks like in this photo.


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I found some Mickey Mouse reverberation time app in the Apple iStore. With the rear wall of the listening room almost completely uncovered glass the current reverberation time according to this little app is .56 @ 500Hz and .63 @ 2,000Hz.

When those glass walls are covered with window treatment I think RT might fall into the target range.

Tinka does not like any of my legacy leather couches, so they have been banished from the living room and into the listening room. I want the listening room to be a fun place which can accommodate naturally a pretty large number of people. Still, I think I should probably keep only two out of the three couches.

I do not yet have a main listening chair here, but I picked one out a couple of years ago. Or I could place one of the couches in front of the other two couches, and use the forward couch as a main listening position. But then that would make this room look unmistakably like a furniture store!

Tinka thinks I should keep only one of the three couches, and keep the place uncluttered looking.


This is a photo from the center of the rear wall using the regular iPhone camera lens:


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What a beautiful space.
I suggest you the SMT Wings diffuser to solve the window reverberations , if any.

 

[Ron Resnick]

My friend Russ (Rustafarian on WBF) is generously loaning me his Magnepan 1.6s. This is a great opportunity to play music in the room for the first time in seven years; to understand how the preamp and the amps operate; and to begin to get some sense of the acoustics of the room.

 

[Ron Resnick]

 

[Ron Resnick]

Lola is not allowed on the new carpet.

 

[ddk]

My friend Russ (Rustafarian on WBF) is generously loaning me his Magnepan 1.6s. This is a great opportunity to play music in the room for the first time in seven years; to understand how the preamp and the amps operate; and to begin to get some sense of the acoustics of the room.


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Is it alive?

david

 

[Ron Resnick]

Is it alive?

david

Yes; music is playing! But not very well — the $99 Sony universal disc player has to be put out of its misery. It is very bright and edgy-sounding. So I am looking at other short-term, interim options to get back on the track.

Still, the modest 1.6s are good enough to remind me why I love vocals on planars! The Siegfried IIs really snap those 86dB slow-pokes to life! (And that’s even in half-power triode mode.)

 

[ddk]

Yes; music is playing! But not very well — the $99 Sony universal disc player has to be put out of its misery. It is very bright and edgy-sounding.

So I am looking at other short-term, interim options to get back on the track.

It's still progress! Given the new state of everything I think that it will be a while before you'll get satisfactory sound.

david

 

[Lagonda]

Congratulations Ron, the room looks great, the Pendragon's fit right in there. Actual music in the room is a big step !

 

[Ron Resnick]

Congratulations Ron, the room looks great, the Pendragon's fit right in there. Actual music in the room is a big step !

Thank you, Milan!

 

[Gooch]

Very nice looking room

 

[Ron Resnick]

I received my dedicated Qobuz-only iPad today. Using the DAC in the iPad by connecting it directly to the line stage reduced the brightness/edginess from the $99 Sony CD disc player, but this arrangement also slayed the dynamics. Overall I’d rather listen to music this way than with the Sony player.

 

[defride]

If you're after an inexpensive interim that'll allow you to play discs and stream easily (albeit via a cable) from one unit, take a look at Marantz, in particular the SA8005. It's a little soft sounding in general but miles better than what you're using currently. From a practical pov it plays all discs inc SACD or plug an iPad into the USB port on the front and stream what you like. Very easy. There are digital inputs on the back in order to use the unit as a DAC. I still use mine as a transport, more than adequate in this respect. Marantz Reference products are much better, some have the same features but of course pricier.

Good luck with the new room, looks great

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