Let’s be clear here. Nothing in my initial response to you was remotely ill mannered. Nothing.
You are one of them HH. You take your system and it’s set-up ultra-seriously to the point that if somebody like myself makes a friendly comment/suggestion that you don’t agree with you fly right off the handle and start hurling insults. In modern parlance you need to chill.
You often remind me of something my mother said; “It’s not what you say but the way you say it.”
Just a little bit of mine.
I am not trying to antagonise, yes, it is a Chord Silent Mount, yes, it is the same brand of speaker stand that HH uses.
In my house, with concrete floors, under Graham Audio LS5/9s, the stands ring like a bell, you can hear it and feel it. The mounts reduce that vibration significantly. The principle is explained in a piece on the Cymbiosis website.
Those are interesting - I put porcelain tiles under my speaker spikes, not out of any sonic considerations, but to keep the spikes from destroying the hard floor material. It also allows me to move the speakers rather easily, but I think these would be a better option.
So back to System Pics then, and I had a great session with one of my favourite CDs this morning. Even better it’s finally raining, hey doesn’t take much to please me ATB Peter
I’m intrigued: would you mind pinpointing exactly what I wrote that was an insult. It would be most surprising as I never aim to insult anyone.
Let’s have a look then
Your room is very nice as ever Peter, and i have this urge to go for a walk in the rain and get soaked but we have none yet.
Well thank you Gazza Yeah maybe not walking for me atm. but I managed to get the car cleaned and in the rain in the end. A liberating change from the hot and dry weather we have had to endure. I know from JN ( ex forum and like you a Signals customer), that it’s also been really hot up your end BW Peter
Sorry forgot, take it easy………and those pesky showers don’t exactly clean the cars do they😥
This is my post. I complemented you on what I thought was a lovely picture of your system and which reminded me of when I had my Kans.
Nothing at all wrong with your reply to that.
I went on to say:
So I acknowledged your viewpoint. I then went on to explain to you why I thought spikes were a bad idea. I noticed from your pic that your spikes went through the carpet and in my experience it’s a bad thing. Much better to have them on spike shoes so that it breaks the spike/floor interface. Only my opinion which I made clear. (ie. I’ve personally come to dislike…). I made a friendly suggestion for you to try. I quite like the idea of little wooden bun feet actually and I’d probably fit them to my Klipsch’s if I could do so without drilling them.
Your response was:
Are you seriously suggesting that this response was a polite one to someone who was just being friendly to you? It is an unfriendly, rude and derogatory response and completely un-called for. All I did was make a friendly suggestion to you for God’s sake. I thought you might benefit from it. I wasn’t criticising your system in any way and I wasn’t challenging your ability to set it up properly. It was just a friendly suggestion. But you flew off the handle and seemed to take it as a personal insult.
All you had to say was something along the lines of ‘well I believe the stands are better left as they are since that is how they were designed - but thanks for the suggestion.’
It was in no way impolite, merely a comment on some of the pottiness that goes on here. I cannot prevent you taking it as a personal insult but it was certainly not meant to be. It simply seemed to be a totally daft idea, and it still does.
I use these under my Quadraspire SVT rack on top of medium thickness carpet. It allows me to easily pull the rack out for connections etc. when I need to. Far superior to the castors that I previously had fitted.
I could make a comment about people posting popcorn posts rather than saying anything useful, but I won’t!!! Ha ha. I trust all is good with you Peter, you seem to have got to a good place with your system after all the trials and tribulations in getting it sounding just so, which is good to see.
Ah, popcorn - now that is a serious upgrade for vinyl users. When playing crackly old vinyl, eat popcorn. Or better still, a bag of crisps. That way you won’t be able to tell if the noise is coming from the vinyl or from the crunchy food. Problem solved!