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| CD Player: Vintage or modern ones? The Ayre C-5xe mp Universal CD/SACD/DVD Player would be a fine choice. Lot's of flexibility, sounds great and can be had at at decent price. | |
| Point to Point vs Circuit Board Blue circle amps were all point to point...http://www.soundstagenetwork.com/revequip/bluecircle_bc208.htm | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Constrained layer platform with 4 - Townshend pods underneath works great for me and the pods are adjustable for turntable leveling.Brinkmann Balance 2-arm > 1 1/4" granite slab > 1/8" blue isodamp (adhesive both sides) > 1/2" ground stee... | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt Blue Circle Audio BC206. Hybrid stereo amp with 4 - 6922's at the input and massive power supply.Totally holds it's own to Lamm gear, etc.Huge footprint and quite heavy.If you can find one - buy it! cheap. | |
| Townshend Seismic Isolation Podium Platform Review: And all at a substantially less cost than most of the common commercial offerings.Plus, you can make your platform to the exact size you want.Really like it. | |
| Townshend Seismic Isolation Podium Platform Review: Thanks, yeah the granite/steel platform weighed in at approx. 120 lb. (about the max I could slug up onto the equipment rack) and turntable at 77, so I choose 4 appropriately sized Townshend pods and double sided taped them to the bottom of the st... | |
| Townshend Seismic Isolation Podium Platform Review: Recently put together a DIY turntable platform: 1 1/4" granite slab sandwiched to 5/8" ground steel plate with 1/8" sound damping polymer between. Set this on 4 Townshend pods and plopped my Brinkmann Balance on top ... wow this I believe outperfo... | |
| Overrated/Underrated Underrated: Audio Sensibility, especially tonearm cables ... well all.Overrated: Top level Audioquest & Wireworld | |
| Power strips- too many choices These Hammond power strips are excellent quality and very reasonably priced: https://www.hammfg.com/electronics/outlet-strips/standard/1584h | |
| Streamer's without built in DAC options? Bryston BDP with Soundirok app, works like a charm. | |
| My thoughts on TT isolation methods. 1 1/8" granite glued to 1/8" blue vibration damping material glued to 1/2" ground steel plate ... all sitting on 4 - Townshend Seismic Pods which are adjustable for leveling turntable.This constrained layer platform on top of damped spring Seismic... | |
| Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)? Positive tweaks:- Gaia speaker mounts on granite slab on carpet- Constrained layer platform on Nobsound spings for turntable mount- Onzow stylus sponge- Lyra SPT- Mass load speakersNegative tweaks:- Pretty much everything mentioned | |
| What is an acceptable level of transformer hum on a Krell S300i? Give the Blue Circle Audio RPD-15 DC Offset Blocker a try. It really cures transformer growl. https://www.bluecircle.com/page152a.html | |
| New or Old CD Player? Another option for great redbook playback is the Ayre C-5xe ... also plays any disc you throw at it. |