Pretty serious offence. Thinking intention to prosecute. Depends if the accused admits the offence. Not having knowledge of the offence is no excuse
Don’t want that amp getting marks on it either. Will affect resale values!
Pretty serious offence. Thinking intention to prosecute. Depends if the accused admits the offence. Not having knowledge of the offence is no excuse
Don’t want that amp getting marks on it either. Will affect resale values!
You’re going to have get a jury of 12 like minded people to have this guy bought to justice.
Very glad that my iPhone pic of my Naims on a sunny morning could provide such inspiration!
Gone.
I have DSotM in CD, SACD, HiRes and original MOFI vinyl. The vinyl, even at 30 years-old, is by far the best to listen to.
Indeed Swanny, the whole remastering scene is somewhat of a jungle as is for that matter Hi Res. Sadly it’s anybody’s guess how it’s going to sound. I have more than a few CDs I’d like to send back ATB Peter
The Tablettes on their stands look really nice. Takes me back to my Kan days. Lovely picture.
PS. Just a small suggestion. It might be worth trying something like Chord Silent Mount spike shoes on the stands particularly if you have a suspended wooden floor. If you could borrow some and don’t like the effect then nothing lost.
We have a solid concrete floor and the stands are spiked through slits in the carpet and underlay so I’m not sure of the value of adding anything else. To be frank, even if they made a positive impact I wouldn’t have them because they’d trash the discreet look of the stands. I’m just not a fan of adding feet and other supports beneath speakers - it just ruins the look and plays into the hifi obsessive arena a bit much for me. If I had a polished wood floor I’d use something like Fraim chips or Linn Skeets, simply to protect the floor.
Fair comment. I’ve personally come to dislike the sound effect of spikes directly onto a hard surface. I think it gives the sound a hard edge. As an experiment you could try removing the spikes and just sitting the stands on the carpet. They will wobble more - don’t worry, just listen and judge. If you like the effect you could replace the spikes with some dicrete screw-on feet. Little wooden bun-feet might look rather fetching!
The stands were designed and made by someone who knows what they are doing, and who intended them to be used with spikes. All this buggering around by hifi buffs who think they know better than designers is really rather odd. Some of the contraptions that people use to ‘improve’ their systems look totally ridiculous. Most of it is just crap designed to extract wodges of cash from the gullible. Wooden bun feet indeed. You may as well use currant buns.
I believe blueberry buns have a much better sonic profile…
We all need a little inspiration in our lives, and today, you are mine.
When I tried brioche buns I found it made the bass all squidgy, I took them out fairly quickly after that.
A layer of de-coupling cinnamon rolls however, well…
I don’t know about decoupling, but one of those would go quite nicely with my cup of tea.
What is the vintage on that, Tony?
No very old, DM. Got it as a gift about 25 years ago and still sounds great.
Preposterous…a picture in the System Pics thread
Sorry old man, I didn’t intend to ruffle your feathers. Just a little suggestion for you to try - no sweat. But I can say for certain that currant buns wouldn’t be a good idea as they would go mouldy and start to smell after a few days. Wooden feet, bun or otherwise, would be my preference.
But lets just take a broader view for a moment if you can bare to indulge me that is. Spikes have pretty much been the default choice of feet on everything from equipment racks to speaker stands for decades. Why? I have never read a credibly convincing reason as to why spikes should improve the sound of a hi-fi system. On the other hand I have read several articles that put forward credible reasons as to why they degrade the sound. You mention ‘crap designed to extract wodges of cash from the gullible’. Well yes indeed - spikes are a wonderful example - as are many of the pieces of crap that they come fitted to.
I don’t like spikes because to my ears they lead to a hardening of the sound. An emphasis of leading edges of notes and ‘audiophile bass’. That is, an unnaturally tight bass rather than the real bass one hears from either acoustic or electrically amplified instruments.
I do find your postioning on these things slightly puzzling and it intigues me a little. Perhaps I need to get out more! For instance you appear to delight in slagging off many accessories as being crap. And people who like to use them as fools who are ‘buggering about’!
Yet we all know your views on a dedicated hi-fi mains supply. You have made them clear often enough. Now to me that really is ‘playing into the hi-fi obsessive arena’ that you mentioned in your previous post. Carrying out a modification on one’s property in order to improve the sound of a hi-fi system is, by your own defined standards, ‘buggering about’. Surely? Or perhaps not? Please do explain if you feel inclined to.
You see to my mind you are both slagging-off hi-fi accessories and associated hi-fi lore and yet at the same time embracing them by purchasing dedicated speaker stands and a special rack to put your equipment on. And purchasing relatively expensive specialised wires to connect your speakers and things. These things could easily be filed under the banner of totally ridiculous contraptions that people use to ‘improve’ their systems. Special furniture with spikes on it indeed!
So I genuinely don’t know what to make of your standpoint on all this. You are a bit of an enigma.
Anyway it’s obviously up to you. Sorry again for ruffling your feathers - that wasn’t the intention at all. I won’t be offended if you don’t fit bun feet to your speaker stands!
Happy listening.