tonywinga
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| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Ok, my last sentence is not a comment about open baffle speakers; but it could be... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? What I have noticed is that my old Thiel speakers which had the mineral front baffles were totally inert on that face but vibrations could be felt on the sides and back of the speaker cabinets. That tells me the speakers were transmitting vibratio... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? I'll add that when you use the Nobsound spring footers on your components, they need to be tuned to maximize the isolation. Do that by using only enough springs in each footer to have about a 0.100" gap when under load. So the footers are still ... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Thank you. Unfortunately, I have not found $1 solutions but the spring platforms for my Thiel speakers were pretty reasonable. The price of 8 springs and two butcher blocks was not too costly. I designed the springs for the load of my speakers ... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Spikes affect the sound. I have heard it firsthand. I used spikes on my Thiel speakers for years. I could hear the difference between the speakers sitting on the floor vs on spikes. Imaging improved. But when I put my speakers on tuned spring plat... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? I believe isolating the speakers from the floor prevents the floor from being a passive radiator. That helps clean up the bass and sharpen the images. | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? https://imgur.com/MsCuC2k | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? A couple of years ago I watched a Peter Townsend video demonstrating his speaker platforms. He showed that even on concrete floors his speaker isolation platforms make a difference. He showed it empirically using vibration transducers. Concrete ... | |
| Why does pulling out main speakers from wall improve sound? @danager : My issue is the bass sounds so much better when I stand up. I had that experience before too. What I found is that my speakers were too far from the front wall. It took me a couple of days of effort positioning the speakers in 1/2"... | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 I’ll add this. I cracked open the DAC once to take a look around inside and to add tube dampers- just because. I found the build quality and workmanship to be outstanding. I have a picture of the innards on my system page. | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 Good to know. Customer service after the sale is just as important as performance. I'm at 2 years/2500 hours with my Stealth XS. My CD transport has much fewer hours since I stream mostly these days. So far, all has been good. I hope I haven'... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I have a fun story. When I was 18, I worked at the railroad yards in Indiana the summer before college. This was 1976. I was mowing grass and stopped at this shack near the hump to use their restroom. The hump is how the train cars are sorted.... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I can't. My DAC has 8 vacuum tubes and my Linestage preamp has 6 vacuum tubes. My phono preamp has the same 6 tubes. Even my CD Transport has vacuum tubes. I'm proud to say that my music server is simply a faceless computer but using a Keces p... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl On the one hand, it takes me 45 minutes, 55 seconds to listen to a 45 minute long CD. That’s if the CD has been put away properly in its alphabetical position and I can readily find it. It takes me 51 minutes to listen to a 45 minute long vinyl re... | |
| SOTA Cosmos turntables I have the Sota Nova VI with the roadrunner/eclipse and vacuum. It is outstanding. I have listened to the Brinkmann’s DD and BD tables several times- once with my own records. They did not surpass my listening experience with the Sota. Since... |