System Pics 2020

I’ve just bought DB3s following a house move giving me a dedicated (but small) listening room. Each record played is a new experience.

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The Ikea is more comfortable than the Eames?

I have an Ikea Poang cost 59 Euros but I’ll have wait to until my next visit for the matching footstool as it wouldn’t fit in the Fiat 500 hire car.
An excellent chair and so comfortable and the different coloured seat cushions at 19 Euros are great value.

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Yep used to fall asleep in mine and wake up 4 hours later in the dark oops

More comfortable than the imitation Eames chair, yes.

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Enjoy them SHEP!!

NTD, the separators that you have between the speakers and your Atacama HMS2X’s…

Are they integral to the speaker, or did you add them yourself?

Finally took a new picture…what’s new? Cables completed (Full Chord Loom), ND555, English Electric *2. Sounds bloody amazing to these ears! Naim for president! image image

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Surround Sound…

Nice system jsawyer09, I really like the Compact 7’s in Rosewood

Claude

Thank you ClaudeP! Really appreciate that. They’re the 30th Anniversary Edition. I admire and enjoy nearly everything about them. Match made in Heaven with Naim.

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Interesting looking equipment support platforms nestled amongst the fraim. What is it?

Good Morning All,

I’ve now made some further progress is my system. As the one photo shows I’ve drilled the cabinets and fitted another pair of terminals to allow for driving each woofer directly.

I acquired some lengths of Linn K400 cable to facilitate this as the other photo shows.

I’m now driving the woofers in each cabinet using both channels of the lower racked NAP250’s. There is nothing ‘new’ in this I know but it is interesting to hear what a sonic improvement this makes.

I’ve had a couple of listening sessions since implementing this. The bass is definitely improved but so also is the whole sound stage. Given the normal 4ohm ‘load’ seen by the amplifier is reduced to 8ohms this is probably hardly surprising.
Next up will be splitting the midrange drivers as I still have two unused channels in the remaining NAP250’s.

The Scan-Speak replacement drivers present a more significant load than the outgoing ones. The original parallel B110’s present a 4ohm load but the 15WU8741T00 present a 3ohm load and the Hiquphon LP20-1’s present around 2.9ohms the Scan-Speak D3004-662000 present a 1.5ohm load.

I think I am some way away from acquiring another pair of NAP135’s to split the tweeters especially given I’ve had near no income in the last 3 months…

Late Addition - Yesterday evening, ably assisted by my long suffering wife, the speakers had their final modification for the foreseeable future i.e. the midrange drivers were separated along with modifying the XLR cables from the SNAXO.

That’ll be it for a while…

Regards

Richard

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A couple of days ago I put my 24”x18”x4” thick granite slabs under my speakers. Originally I used them in my old house, which had carpeted floors, but they were just sitting in a closet so I tried them out on the wood floor. I also inserted cups and balls that I make myself between the speakers and granite. Then ball bearing sits in the metal threaded insert that can be used for spikes or GAIA’s etc., and the cup is directly sitting on the granite. I am very impressed with the result, everything seems more focused, and my plan to install GAIA 1’s is now gone. The speakers weigh 160 pounds each, and are now rock solid, with no sway or movement at all.

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NQ - is the granite directly on the wood, or is there some sort of protection against scratches and the like?

Not directly on the floor, I have four of these 1” diameter .250” inch plastic round discs under the granite. They are sticky on one side, so I fix them to the granite, and I am able to slide the whole thing around quite easily for speaker positioning, kind of like those Herbies sliders.

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To add a little, these speakers are 6-8 years old, but new to me only a few months back. Originally they would of had some kind of spikes, but unfortunately they did not come with any. I had the little plastic discs under the speakers up until now. The speakers themselves originally cost 26-27 K, but I got them for less than a third of that, and they are keepers for sure.

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Sonority shelfs instead of glass. Same system under Kudos. Sounds better. I do think Naim tried something like that when Fraim was tried and tested but went with glass because of production cost. Might be a rumour also…

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Unity Atom + DIY Speakers (Troels Gravesen - Fusion)

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Great looking speakers nice work. :+1: