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| Turntable isolation platforms Ok, had to look that up. Mass on spring looks effective for isolating turntables through other means. I'm more interested speaker and component vibration solutions that drain sources of vibration to the floor. Haven't seen many spring solutions fo... | |
| Turntable isolation platforms We're all talking about the same thing here. I've just provided a alternate, general way to understand what's going on, not just with turntables but speakers and components with noisy transformers as well. Mass on spring works well at low frequenc... | |
| Turntable isolation platforms I look at vibration control through an RF impedance matching background. Spiking heavy speakers or platforms improves sound by rejecting high energy bass frequency vibrations in a suspended wood floor moving up into the component or speaker. Varyi... | |
| Trying to find an amp that matches my tastes (aka death metal) I had a pair of Anthony Gallos Ref 3.1’s. When hooked up to both a class D W4S ST-500mkii and Gallo SA amp (dual amping dual voice coiled sealed 10" woofers), metal was amazing. Low volume pant leg movement from bass drum and bass guitar plucks we... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I haven't tried Hypex, but a W4S ST-500 mkII class D was not my cup of tea. To be fair, a tube instead of ss pre would have helped greatly. | |
| What's more important in a difficult room, room correction or higher, clean, power? The room modes below 50Hz were best avoided by careful speaker and listening position placement in my room. Corner traps helped somewhat along with panels. Dirac Live with the filter on still sounds markedly better. Mixed phase filters with phase ... | |
| Best integrated tube amplifier, under $3,000.00. No phono needed. Could be used, too.d +1 on the LM508. The Raven Blackhawk provided excellent sounding vocals and is a good selection at a lower price point for efficient speakers. The LM508 accuracy, soundstaging and fast deep bass sounds wonderful driving Tekton DI’s. I added an ifi... | |
| Network Switches @almarg , absolutely. I got PWM mixed up with PCM. Thank goodness, otherwise we would have needed coax to make this work. 1.76 MHz is still up there, especially when a fourier series is considered to accurately shape the square wave so the decoder... | |
| Network Switches I was just doing some back of the envelope math to estimate the narrowest of PWM pulses from redbook.(2^16) *44KHz~3GHz. Thats a 4 inch wavelength! If spectral content of the PWM wave exceeds the bandwidth of cable or connectors (impedance and los... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Just dropping in after a long hiatus from audio due to a new baby. Sometimes you just stop listening and forget how magical music can be especially with DI's and an LM508 lying dormant. It all unfolded when my buddy from work stops by unannounc... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification plga,Congratulations on the Nord. I too have the LM508IA and largely prefer it over the W4S ST-500 mkii class D. The W4S had great lows and mid bass but sterile mids and hard highs. Heck I even liked a 20 year old parasound HCA-1200ii better. I c... | |
| Digital improvements possible? Improving the front end of my system has been on my radar too. I run a reasonably quiet gaming pc > Live Dirac>sotm tx-usbexp>W4S RUR>DAC-2>LM508IA>Tekton DI'sA filtered outlet and usb card cleaned things up well. Live Dirac has ... | |
| Suggestions for Class D amplifiers with Marantz AV7704 and B&W cdm9nt combo for HT. @lightfighter2018,That's what I found with a W4S ST-500mkii. Super clean, authoritative bass, not shrill by any stretch but a lack of meat on the bones. The DAC-2 being used as a pre was probably a bad match for the sound I was after. A tube pre m... | |
| Getting into tubes I owned a Raven Blackhawk and currently run an LM508IA. I can tell you there is something really special about vocals with the Blackhawk and the speed of the push/pull configuration was apparent. Your 87dB speakers may require the Osprey if you ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts David, Thanks for sharing your set up. For us with carpet, the alternatives to Gaia footers are more complicated as a spiked end point with absorptive material or roller ball somewhere in the chain is desired. There are ways to make this happen (m... |