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Great thread guys... My system this morning... Not really audiophile grade but adequate.

Item: MF LP'S Location: W.A. Price: $1000 ONO Item Condition: EXCELLENT Reason for selling: Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal,Extra Info: A COMPLETE SET WITH GEODISK ECT IN EXCELLENT HARDLY USED CONDITION ,THIS IS MAYBE 30 ODD YEARS OLD, THIS IS THE LP SET TO HAVE AS IT WAS MASTERED FROM THE "MASTER TAPES" NOT A DIGITAL COPY FOR PERTH PEOPLE CAN DELIVER FREE AS I WILL BE IN TOWN FROM SATURDAY FOR THE WEEKEND(ONLY) OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE AT LEAST $60 FOR POST DONATION TO SNA ON SALE Pictures:

Technics SL-1000MK3D has arrived. Coupled with my EPC-P100C-MK4 cartridge, the combo is sounding superb. thanks @MarkT.

Morning star shining its light upon the church this morning.

I was down in the shed this morning and decided to fix up and start using a turntable in my computer room / office. I had a Sherwood PD-702B that looked terrible because of numerous scars and spots on the dust cover. Here's a google search that will show you the turntable https://www.google.com/search?q=sherwood+pd-702b&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI-cjokqDTAhUCn5QKHan5BmgQsAQIUw . I think someone stacked paints and solvents on it at some point. I know I paid very little for it years ago at a flea market. However, underneath it looked quite OK. Just your basic TT, semi-auto, with antiskate, speed adjustment etc. As it is a direct drive, no belt to replace, I chose it. I have plenty of spare cartridges, and quite a few AT3600 carts, so I put one of them on. This turntable has a small curved mark near the edge of the table that it labels the "stylus line". So I figured I'd set the cart parallel in the headshell, and the stylus overhang according to that mark. I then popped on a 2 point protractor, and found it was perfectly aligned without further adjustment needed. That was so simple I thought, thinking back to the fremer setup video here earlier I only had a 3600L stylus. That's the carbon cantilever, conical tip stylus that tracks around 2 grams. So that's what I am using, through a small battery powered phono preamp. Even so, the sound is wonderful. Guess it shows that the hurdle for pleasurable listening isn't really that high, for me, at least Right up there with 320k mp3s played via my little Fiio external DAC through the same amp and speakers. Spinning a lovely sounding Nonesuch label recording of 17th & 18th century quartets as I type this.

On the grade of 0 to audiofile I think I would rate you an 8. Records everywhere. Yep Isolation platforms. Yep Two sets of speakers in the room. Yep A mess of big cables. Yep Guitar on the wall. Yep Duntechs. Yep Lava lamp. Hell yep

Get rid of the wife!

Item: ProAc Response D2+Foundation Stands+Transparent Cables Location: Roseville Price: $3000 Item Condition: Used Reason for selling: Surplus/Need the money Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: ProAc speakers are known for their detail. You will never fatigue from listening to these speakers, they are excellent speakers. They retail at around $4700. Foundation Stands are one of the best brands in the world. Each Stands weighs around 25kg. They are very hard to get in Australia. They retail around $2200 not including taxes and shipment from U.S. Transparent musicwave plus biwire speaker cable retail around $1700 included with speakers. Selling as package for $3000. All you need is an amp and source. Can set up speakers for a listen. Pick up is preferred as items are heavy. Pictures:

Hopefully going to get the new ones in over Easter. It will be interesting. I'll be sure to report my experience. M Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Item: ML3 Reference In Radiant Ebony Location: Kingaroy Price: $7000 Firm Item Condition: 8/10 Excellent Reason for selling: ML2's suit my small room better (we are talking about 4x4m space) Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: These were built around 2014 so are not very old. They have all the best bits Mike could put in them (Duelund Caps etc) and original pricing was around $15999. They are the latest cabinet design, and can be easily upgraded to the $20,000+ ML5 spec from around $6000 (depending on what crazy expensive parts you choose to add of course). Other than a small smudge on the foam front of one speaker from polishing they are in excellent condition. As far as the colour in almost all lighting they look black, with a bit of light they look nearly black, it is only with direct lighting on them at the right angle you see the vibrant colour show through.. They will pass the test for the Mrs's "I want them black" Line.. It took my partner 3 weeks to notice they weren't.. and they sit "In the middle of the damn room" as she puts it. Sadly I don't have packing, so they'll probably have to be a pick-up only job, but by all means contact me if you can't pick them up and we can always try and work around it. Plenty of standard ML3's come and go, but This is the only pair of ML3 Reference I've ever seen for sale on here.. They are so god damn good you just don't sell them, but sadly they like "modest" room sizes as Mike puts it to perform, which is around 50m3 or 6x4x2.4 at least.. In my sad little listening room they just boom a little in the bass because I can't get away from corners.. It probably wouldn't even bother me if I hadn't already had ML2s which behaved themselves here. I'll probably move into a bigger room later this year and regret this, but jump in before I change my mind. Pictures: When I find a decent camera.. My iPhone 4s has a worse camera than even a Samsung

Just received "The Allman Brothers at Filmore East" from one of the guys on here. Disco75. My god, its bloody wonderful. A bit strange in a way though. This Album reminds me of a cross between Santana and early ECM music.

So, had the day off today. Missus was at work so had a chance to crank some tunes. Things sounded ok but something wasn't right. I posted in @Darren69 thread about bi wiring/jumpers. So I decided to have a look around back of the speakers, sure enough had one speaker out of phase. Doh. Bloody XLO, why they have to use green and purple? They look good but easy to mix up, especially when my jumpers are purple and black. Fixed that up and everything snapped back into place. Happy days. Also decided to have a peek inside at the crossovers, while doing so noticed that every screw on all the drivers were loose. Tightened them up and the difference was quite amazing. They sounded sluggish and less coherent when they were loose, I recommend everyone to give it a go I think you'll be surprised. cheers Dave

Haha it has crossed my mind! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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While out looking for fungi...

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain.

I bought mine from Bill McLean, locally. If there is a problem Bill organises the repair, also locally, gets parts from Sanders, if needed, and presumably bills Sanders for the tech's time. If Bill's enterprise no longer exists or I no longer exist or Sanders' enterprise no longer exists then its probably time to buy a new amp, anyway.

You're joking of course? 95% of hifi gear is a fashion industry, and is reported on, hyped, assessed and purchased on that basis. You have to realise that sighted listening and auditioning creates imagined sonic differences that are actually integrated experiences where sonic factors are dominated by non-sonic factors but the integrated perception is mis-attributed to sonics. On that basis there is a thriving industry in diversity and price ranges, successfully extracting plastic from our pockets over and over.

Most audio products sound more "the same" than most audiophiles will admit.

Still dark outside - early start is good for early finish. 3/4 of my system. My Theta dac/pre is away for a service. I've had a play with room lighting since my showcase thread.

+1

And it's in! Will let you know how it goes

I lost track of Bob Mould after the first solo album 'Workbook'. After playing this, so glad that somewhere in a box I have 'Bob Mould/Hubcap' and 'The Last Dog and Pony Show' to also explore.

There IS magic in them grooves

If you dont have/need ceiling speakers nothing will come close to this even at double the asking price.

There you go again, upsetting the Lord of Darkness. Heaven wont have you and Hell is worried you'll take over.

Don't ask me what I'm doing, I don't know either. This is a very sad story, and a lesson to you all. I woke up one morning last week and decided I had been really stupid to trade in my Musical Fidelity 3DCD NuVista Cd player and Nu-Vista M3 integrated amp for McIntosh gear. I bought a Macintosh MCD500 CD, MR85 tuner, C2600 vallve premap and valve MC102 amp - with a pair of Shahinian Obelisks.(the system pictured here ) The Mcintosh system proved unreliable ( described by my dealer in an off the cuff comment as having a Mercedes exterior and a Kia interior ) and the sound wasn't really great either so I down traded it to the Ayre combo listed here for sale. and let me tell you - the Ayre combo is so much better than the Mcintosh gear that it's not funny - light years ahead anyway. I marvel when I play a CD played last on the Mcintosh gear as all these new sounds, vocals and instruments emerge - never been hard before. But I've still been pining for my original NuVista CD and Nu-Vista M3 amp and have found a Tri-Vista Sacd and Tri-Vista amp for sale overseas. If I do go ahead with this, I'll be almost back to where I started about 10 years ago ! The Tri-Vista SCAD/Cd player is a risky purchase as, if the drive fails, there are no spare parts available anymore - but it looks damn nice with it's matching amp. Its' working pereferctly now so I'm contemplating accepting the risk of this purchase...

Am planning to be there again this time in 12 months, would love to catch up with you all then. We might pick our retirement home whilst we are there.

Plenty of amps quote this, but few can genuinely deliver it. Not many brands give you 20 years warranty.. Even the Magnus i've upgraded to is 3 years, at about $20,000 landed in Australia.

Looks good to me mate. What matters is that it sounds good. I've heard mega dollar systems that leave my ears feeling violated, and 500 buck shed systems that make me tap my feet. I'll have the feet tapping experience any day of the week!

you dont want it. its basically like their power stage in their avrs in separate box. plenty of other better options around

It doesn't support those formats (Atmos, DTS:X, Auro3d etc) - they couldn't patch it in because it needs a new chipset to support these functions. Fantastic pre though if you're not fussed with having ceiling/atmos speakers. Yes you can expand 7.1 material to use the full 11.2 channels.

I'm declaring this my favorite live album ever...for all time... Essesentially this is Squarepusher (on bass) playing as a live band, drum and bass songs he's released over the past 20 years...

Hi, I built my cas several years ago, upgraded with high performance stuffs like 4790k cpu, Asus M6G mobo(I believe higher performance HW has better SQ, tried i7 4790k>4770s>i3, etc) While maintaining high performance I'm still be able to manage the heat issue by using the Streacom FC9 fanless cases in order to avoid the fan vibration and EMI issue. Here is the pics of my cas system before I changed the case. As you can see where I placed the 3M EMI absorber to deal with the critical components.

But you haven't heard the Halcro's yet?

Burkhard Beins / John Butcher/ MarkWastell: MEMBRANE I received this CD release today, came in a metal tin, even had it's own plastic sleeve. Burkhard Beins : feedback 28" concert bass drum, analog synth & live-electronics John Butcher : tenor & soprano saxophones, acoustic & amplified feedbacking. Mark Wastell : amplified 32" paiste tam-tam & mixer Limited edition 150 copies, black vinyl-styled CD, housed in DVD size metal tin together with three photographic postcards. Liner notes from John Eyles. Recorded live in concert at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London on 13 April 2014. Recording engineered by James Dunn. Mixed & mastered by John Butcher. Review: This marvellous release from Mark Wastell’s Confront label documents a meeting of these three heavy hitters convened at Dalston’s Cafe Oto, last March. This was the first time all three had played together, although, as John Eyles remarks in his liner notes, they had all worked with each other, before, in outfits such as Powelchsel (Butcher and Beins), The Sealed Knot (Beins and Wastell) and Chris Burn’s Ensemble (Wastell and Butcher). This familiarity, combined with rigour and expertise of their respective improvisational methodologies, means this is a very accomplished set. These guys know what they’re doing and so there’s no faffing about. They’re locked in from the first seconds of Membrane 1, setting up a long, ringing sequence of notes, driven by Wastell’s metallic tam-tam murmurs. At first things are slow and sub aqueous, Wastell setting up a liquid sonic field that makes everything like it is taking place at the bottom of a cold, clear ocean. Butcher comes in sensitively at first, his breathy hisses moving through the shimmer like an eel. At around 11 minutes, he casts forth some simple, abstract phrases, before slipping back into the depths. Beins is even more circumspect and, occasionally, it’s tricky to figure out whether the electronic tones and chain-like rattles that occasionally ripple across the surface of this piece are him or one of the other two. There’s definitely something going on, however, something creating that sense of textured depth that seems, on the whole, organic but sometimes humming like a vast, dormant machine. At times, Membrane 1 approaches the timeless, womb-like states to which late 90s ambient post-rave comedown music aspired, but rarely achieved. There’s a heavy strangeness and thickness to the sound, which those ambient gurus missed in their layers of synth and whale song. Mind you if I was listening to this piece in a chill out room at 4am after a night of hedonism, I doubt I would be chilling out – rather the opposite, I suspect. For Membrane 2, things are rugged and earthy rather than glistening and watery. Again, the trio sets up a dense sonic ecosystem, Butcher braying atonally at first, his blasts punctuated by, hollow hisses and underpinned by a tempestuous, glowering tam-tam drone. Wastell keeps up the intensity throughout the first half, his fast, rhythmic beats giving things a stormy momentum as Beins comes in with a whole lot of wiry scratches and fuzz, jostling with Butcher’s hollow, hostile exhalations. The second half of Membrane 2 is wiry and metallic, sharp, echoing clangs followed oxy-acetylene hisses, all of which seems to force gasps of pain from Butcher’s horn. It feels like we’re listening to some mechanical entity under duress, about to fall apart. Yet just as suddenly as it started, it stops, gearing down to something more subdued, a series of churning hums and brassy whispers. (PAUL MAGREE)

Have had this since the 70's but seldom played...Enjoying it now!

Tempting, but my aiming point is M3. M3 will be an end-game speaker for me, then I'm done. Everything else I have is already at the sensible end of the upgrade path.

Having own and worked on another SNA member's Sanders Magtech, I can confirmed that there are no propriety parts used. All of the components inside Roger Sanders Electronics are all standard through the hole components that's available of the shelf via E14, RS, Mouser etc etc. The only component that's possible difficult to obtain is the rubbish 120V 8200uf Jamicon capacitors and the front end jfet: LSK389 by Linear System that's so sort after in the DIY community to amplifier designs. All the rest are standard of the shelf parts. Then there's the Lifetime Warranty he provides for the original purchaser.

Here a run down on a copier service division that has a SLA of 5hrs. And 2 hrs for production environment. some creative accountant in my organisation has costed that to send a tech out will cost $90hr. You have an army of 60 techs in Melbourne, who will respond to calls placed within 5hrs, there's tools, vehicles, parking involved, then there's the logistics of having parts on the ready to get your device ready so you can make that report to your superiors on paper. The spare parts alone cost $1.5M per month to run, the logistics of having those spares on the ground in 7 different locations in Melb doesn't even count in the costings. And that's just mechanical wear and tear parts, expensive items like laser assy and pcbs, PSU don't even count. Hence the $10M loss for the financial year of 2016! All this to support $0.06 per sheet! The loss is due to the Aussie dollar, hence the parts are all from Asia! What hits you is also the declining world wide paper usage so we saw 12 techs get retrenched in 2016! In an electronic industry especially the TV market, the technology is changing at rapid rate. I doubt companies like Panasonic will even keep spare on the ground! The difference here is in the copier industry the devices are from $500.00 - $4million! In the TV industry we re talking up to $15k a display approx! And the range changes every 6-9mths. Each introduction in a new series brings with it different series of advancement in parts, hence the reason we have what's called a disposable society. And with the way Electronics have progressed, there are components on PCB are now all SMD that cannot be replaced in the field so the entire module must be replaced! This is why Sony LG etc don't have service divisions on the ground, it all gets replaced at point of purchase. Hence the reason why I take out additional warranty for expensive items over $2k! Then there's no arguements when the manufacturers warranty expires. Have a look at my Solar hot water service thread, the cost of getting it fixed, every time they come out it's $200 plus and that doesn't include parts! So who here wants there 10yr old plasma fixed?

The human voice is also an musical instrument. And to demonstrate 'musicality' we have Adele singing a few songs 'unplugged' in a room with no amplification and no processing, just her naked voice, warts and all.

While multiple accounts are not permitted on StereoNET, brodricj (and yes your topics gave it away a long time ago), your new account has abided by the website guidelines to date.

Van Morrison, 1968, Astral Weeks Warner Bros. Aust. WS 1768, reissue C.1979. Still a fave nearly 40 years later after first hearing it, especially Cyprus avenue & Madam George. https://www.discogs.com/Van-Morrison-Astral-Weeks/release/9015623

There will be frank words exchanged in the house, but some things are worth it... PM sent.

I think he means that for us mere mortals having this beauty being surplus to requirements will not happen in most lifetimes... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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