Just been reading the thread/topic on cable quality,effect and cost. If in fact they made huge difference.
I am currently in the process of moving house and have powered down my kit and later this week,packing it all up to transfer to the new place. It suddenly struck me that I have spent 10 years to get to a point where system servicing, tuning and upgrades have got me to point where I listen to the music not the system, and now starting all over again,strange room unknown electricity quality etc
Differences including moving from suspended floors to solid ( no T/T) longer room same width etc
Hopefully by this time next week will be powered up and fettling, got 12 day’s off so should be enough time to be really obsessive.
Good luck with the move. My advice would be just reestablish your system, just play music and relax, and give it some time before making any adjustments, perhaps a little fine tuning with speaker placement.
In my experience, moving is never as disruptive as you fear. Over time, you learn a lot about optimising your system, and you take these lessons with you. Unless your new home has bad mains or a very problematic layout, it’s likely that your first setup will be very close to where it needs to be, and the normal process of settling down and your ears adjusting will buy you time as you make further adjustments. It’s even possible that your enjoyment of your collection will be rejuvenated.
After I moved to the U.S. 30+ years ago, my system was in storage for many months, and I was nervous about setting it up again, being disappointed, etc. Instead, I was amazed at how much better it sounded than I remembered. When I shared this with my UK dealer, he attributed it mostly to having much better mains that my old, run down London flat had.
When I moved around three years ago, the system sounded just as good, if not better, than in my old home. The big benefit was moving from a very bouncy suspended floor to a solid floor, no more tip-toeing to change a record.
Thanks everyone for the votes of confidence that a move is not the end of the world. Set system up on Wednesday this week first night in new home.
Left it to settle for 24 hours powered up while Mrs R emptied boxes on Thursday I fettled with speaker position lucky to have separate music room again longer than last location.
After 4 hours mowing lawns and the purchase of second lawn mower and slightly sun burned sat listening to Mary Chapin Carpenter"a new album with a nice glass of red, tears have appeared proving that I have reconnected with my system
Tomorrow the clean up of our lovely Doblo and Freelander starts cleaning off all the moving debris, good excuse for another session tomorrow night.
Thanks everyone for the support and belying the Fear.