Show us your Sondek

That looks very nice. I can never decide if I prefer a smooth plinth or the fluted one I have. One thing’s for sure though, I’m not going to have 2 Sondeks to find out…

Thank you!
I agree, like both plinths.
I do feel the Nait 2 is better in the top-end. More detail and separation. I do like the rougher mix with the 1 also. It gives a Little less hifi and more raw impression👍
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Gorgeous plinth!

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I bought my 42/110 from Grahams in 1983, good shop and nice to see it is still going.

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Great looking LP12… Certainly wearing it’s years well!!

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Nice bit of marble there, an improvement over the Naim glass visually by a mile, doesn’t seem to show the dust either.

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Good to see an LP12 with a proper lid!

Mine is from 1981 & is totally unmarked. The silver strip has yellowed slightly &, fortunately, blends very well with my walnut plinth. I can’t tell from the photo if yours has yellowed as the light makes it look as if half has & the other half hasn’t.

I always play with the lid on & closed. As well as looking better than the clear lid, the smoked lid also sounds much, much better. OK, only joking before posts start debating this…

My LP12 can be seen in the image below.

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How do you find your DB1’s? How far away from the rear wall do they need to be? Thanks

It seems to work well with the sideboard. Looks alright, I think.
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I am very pleased with them indeed. I find them very refined, detailed, non-fatiguing & very ‘musical’. I can, & have, listened to them for hours on end at low to moderate volume without thinking that the sound is anything other than very enjoyable.

I have been to dealer demo evenings of very high end systems played at fairly loud volume, where the treble has been far too bright (like an over sharpened photo) & the bass so deep & distorted (to my ears), that 20 minutes listening was 19 minutes too much. Afraid large, expensive KEFs have been the prime offenders here.

Equally, other larger speakers, Naim Ovators, Russell K 150s & ATC actives, have sounded great for an hour or more at high volume.

My DB1’s fall into this latter category but obviously with a lot less bass weight. The detail is still there, just not the weight.

Due to installation in a smallish room, I have to have them angled against the rear wall with one side of the rear bass port about 4" from it & the other side about 6" from it. I suspect this is not ideal & would like about 12" if space permitted. Bass definition does not appear to suffer but I am guessing that the depth of the front to back sound stage would increase if they were further from the wall.

Proac no longer provide any set up information with their speakers but the recommendation for my previous two pairs of small, front ported, Proac stand-mounts, 1990 Studio one’s & 2016 118’s, was to mount them 12" from a rear wall.

As an aside, & from what I have read, if your budget could stretch a bit & the extra size did not bother you, it could be worth auditioning D2’s with a ribbon tweeter. They were a bit too big for me but, whilst happy with my DB1’s, I would audition DB1’s in a shot if Proac offered a ribbon tweeter option.

Well, that’s my brief response to your simple enquiry!!

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That is really helpful - thank you very much. I had a pair of Proac Tablette 10’s with an Atom which I used for near field listening and I loved the sound. I switched the Proac’s to the long axis of the room and changed the Atom for a Nova but the Tabs never quite liked the change and it didn’t seem balanced. I now have a pair of PMC twenty5.21’s which I love and are very suited to the Nova and long axis. But I have to confess there is something about the Proac sound and I do wonder occasionally about a different pair of Proacs to the Tabs. I am very much wedded to the idea of smaller standmounts

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What is it about? The more coloured sound or the darkness at room ends? :laughing:

Neither, just the better taste of those of us with smoked lids!

Or to hide the fact that some of us couldn’t afford expensive arms & cartridges & would have felt inferior if the whole world could see…It hid our shame.

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I haven’t put the lid on my Sondek since getting my Roksan Sara.

  1. It barely fits behind the arm
  2. It just looks so much better without it …

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Thank you, daddycool.

I wonder if any members with a Cymbiosis Signature LP12 would like to post some nice images as a continuation here or preferably in a new thread. As some will know this is very special version of the LP12 viewed by some as representing the pinnacle of LP12 performance. Of course the main reason is to view the beautiful exotic wood plinths produced by Woodsong. A deck I aspire to owning one day.

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Built by Peter, with a standard Linn Cherry plinth, when I look at Keel my well we tempted with one of the special plinths peter has in his store room

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Show us the corners. Does linn corner match the grain?

Perfectly

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