Archive through January 11, 2010
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2669 Registered: Jun-07 | Yeah man. Its not that expensive either. Considering what they are doing to it. The replaced a lot of key stuff in my amp. Best thing I have ever done in this hobby so far IMO. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2370 Registered: Nov-05 | Nice Nick, very nice indeed! |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2670 Registered: Jun-07 | Thanks M.R.!!! |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2082 Registered: May-06 | Nice arrangement for your HT Nick. It is evident that you appreciate your home and have taken effort to make it your own. Now about those Bryston before and after pics, I suspect it will look like an ad for X90P before and afters. |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 3413 Registered: May-05 | Very nice house and set ups, Nick. I wish I had the space you do. |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2671 Registered: Jun-07 | Thanks guys. lol If only I can find that before shot. I think it is on my wife's thumb drive. I will check. I certainly have the after. I will shrink it and post it soon. |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2672 Registered: Jun-07 | lol Stu- you might wish you had the space, but I wish I had your dedicated room for the two channel system. I think I might have my wife talked into some butchers blocks though. If I put a nice finish to them. Hey its a start.lol. Still no dedicated room though. Its going to take a bigger house yet for that I think. Sucks. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13088 Registered: Dec-04 | Great stuff Nick! |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2673 Registered: Jun-07 | Thanks Nuck  |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2889 Registered: Feb-07 | Finally got around to taking some photos of my system with the new MCD-301. Cheers!      |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2704 Registered: Jun-07 | Siiccck setup David. Sexy finish on those Totems too. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2892 Registered: Feb-07 | Thanks buddy! |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10477 Registered: Feb-05 | Awesome David, the Mac setup looks great! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2893 Registered: Feb-07 | Thanks Art. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13101 Registered: Dec-04 | OK, now I might, might, just shop around for a 301. Great stuff David! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2894 Registered: Feb-07 | Thanks again guys. My door is always open for auditions. The CDP upgrade was a pain in the butt, but I'm glad I finally got there. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13104 Registered: Dec-04 | Hmmm...careful, David, I just might show up! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2895 Registered: Feb-07 | I always have beer in the fridge! |
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Gold Member Username: StryvnWisconsin Post Number: 1167 Registered: Dec-06 |  .  .  |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 899 Registered: Jun-08 | Beautiful systems Dave and Styvn. Love those Mc lights. |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2705 Registered: Jun-07 | Beautiful Stryvn. I missed it, but I had no idea you had the MAC Pre amp to go with it. Excellent. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13109 Registered: Dec-04 | I dig the lighting, let me roll a J while you find Floyd in the dim room light of the Mac's... Good camera work, Stryvn, I take it that you are liking the new lens? psst guys...you didn't know that Stryn is a shutterbug, eh? |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 3422 Registered: May-05 | Great systems and pics Dave and Stryvn! Stryvn, When did you get the 6200? I missed that one too. Also, I know the real reason why you left the lights off... You haven't straightened out that wire mess yet, have you?  |
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Silver Member Username: KbearCanada Post Number: 220 Registered: Dec-06 | David, those McIntosh's look amazing. One day I will look into maybe upgrading to Mac. And Nick, it looks like you've got a really nice place. The MA6 look sweet, nice Apollo too. |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2708 Registered: Jun-07 | Thanks Dan. The best gear in my two channel system though are definitely the Bryston stuff. They both have the old Bryston look on the outside but a newer inside, which is beautiful and they sound even better. They definitely IMO outclass my Apollo. My next source will be a DAC however. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13122 Registered: Dec-04 | Stryvn picked up that I/A instead of the MX112 tuner/pre that I bought up. Good thing too, I think his second Mac is a good pickup. |
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Gold Member Username: StryvnWisconsin Post Number: 1168 Registered: Dec-06 | Yes....you remember the wire mess huh, Stu? lol. S'ok. The recent gear purchases have me looking for a flat screen for the wife. Then I have to get to work on a new gear rack to get rid of the ugly one that's there now. And I mean UGLY. The 6100 is an I/A that I am using as a pre. I run the Paradigm's offa the 4 ohm taps on the back of the 7300 and feed em about 30-40w and we're in business here. It's a bit less colored (to say the least) than the Rotel pre. And looks cooler. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10490 Registered: Feb-05 | Nice setup Stryvn! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2379 Registered: Nov-05 | Yeah very nice guys. Pretty lights too. I wonder how Macs would sell if they just had a blank facade and a little standby/on light? Not knocking their musical prowess - just a thought.  |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2907 Registered: Feb-07 | I've wondered that too M.R. Mac have some amps without the funky meters, which oddly enough interest me not in the least. I guess there's your answer. Then again, Bryston has it's legions of loyal followers (present company included), and they're as plain as it can get. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10499 Registered: Feb-05 | I have my eye on the next upgrade... Mastersound Due Venti S.E. http://www.mastersoundsas.it/NEW%20SITE/amplificatori_integrati.htm Kickin' it around with my buds at Eugene HiFi...we'll see. First have to sell the R5's. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2380 Registered: Nov-05 | Interesting Art - will they let you take it home for a trial when you're ready? |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10501 Registered: Feb-05 | Yes they will. In fact they will probably come on up and we'll enjoy each others company and do some auditioning before they leave me with it for some alone time. They don't rush me either...they understand that that is not a good way to audition, under the gun of a time limit. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2382 Registered: Nov-05 | That's the way to do it. Good dealers even if they don't answer emails :-) |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10505 Registered: Feb-05 | They do answer emails...are you sure the email was delivered. I asked Dale today if you emailed and he said he hadn't seen it...hmm they have always been very responsive. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2383 Registered: Nov-05 | Art, I never got a delivery failure notice or anything to suggest otherwise, but hey, it doesn't really matter the cable has been relegated to the ht set-up and the Chord seems great for 2 channel. Very little difference, but just a tad more top end detail - and I mean a tad. Thanks anyway Art, maybe it went into their spam bin. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2387 Registered: Nov-05 | Just for the heck of it, here is a pic of the Saturn and the latest acquisition, the Oppo BDP-83, a universal Blu-ray player. Out with the Pioneer BDP and Marantz DV-9500. The timber boards are on brass cones with rubber cushioning, the Saturn has 1/2 inch bearings set in blu-tac in the player's feet. I was going to give a little review of the Saturn, but what is left to add? In comparison to the SE edition, it's not much in front, probably doesn't warrant the extra $'s but it does dig a little deeper, a bit more inner detail, a little more dynamic with it's higher bandwidth and like it's siblings, bl00dy musical. It doesn't forgive poor recordings, but takes you to heights with the good ones.  |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10506 Registered: Feb-05 | Love the Saturn. I know you don't play it with the display on...right? |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13144 Registered: Dec-04 | Noisy display still? I thought that was fixed. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10507 Registered: Feb-05 | It has a button to turn off the display for a reason... |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2389 Registered: Nov-05 | Love the Saturn. I know you don't play it with the display on...right? Ah, that's what that button is for!  Not for serious listening I don't Art, but I'm hard pressed to hear the difference really. Noisy Nuck ?????? |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyBrooklyn, NY United States Post Number: 2809 Registered: Oct-04 | My Marantz gear has a similar "display off" function, but I can't hear a difference either. |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2711 Registered: Jun-07 | Sexy Rack MR ;) You can turn off the display on the Apollo too. I played around with it a bit. No difference to my ears. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13150 Registered: Dec-04 | Unless the led's from the player are distracting from the candlelight and Barry White, why turn off? My Apollo has the slightest noise with the display on, and I mean the nit-pickiest noise. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10513 Registered: Feb-05 | I hear the difference Nick, that's why I turn it off. Wish I didn't I like having the display...oh well. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13163 Registered: Dec-04 | Thats why I mention the display, Art, I thought the saturn was immune, and the later Apollo and SE as well. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2393 Registered: Nov-05 | No noise in the Saturn display, wasn't any in the SE or our first Apollo as I recall. Might be that trickle they call power on your side of the big pool :-) |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10515 Registered: Feb-05 | I don't get noise per say M.R it just isn't as clean and it has nothing to do with power it's the display. It's minor but I can live without the display to get the best from the Apollo. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2394 Registered: Nov-05 | I''ll have to do some more intense listening to see if I or even Mrs MR can hear any value. You may just have 20/20 hearing Art. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13164 Registered: Dec-04 | Damn, you be frisky M.R. Trickle of power my balls, mate, we have real water power here, not counting on Wallaby's to peee altogether. How are you doing with the whole rabbit thing? Cheers! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2395 Registered: Nov-05 | Yeah, well we have a darn lot of wallabies then. But our power is getting very expensive here as is everything else. And don't get me started on frisky |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2098 Registered: May-06 | I keep turning of the lights because I am a lemming not a wallaby. I do not here the difference either, but if I do not need to see the track the red glow is annoying. Keeping in mind that I am a blue lights type. Come Together on the tuner. Peace, out. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2396 Registered: Nov-05 | Hmm, and we know Nuck's a red light man (grin). Actually my wife has trouble reading the Saturn/Apollo display from our sitting position with or without glasses. She has no trouble with blue or green displays. Shipped the Pioneer B-Ray player today and have bids on the Marantz - Phew, guess she'll be talking to me again ha, ha! |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13172 Registered: Dec-04 | Nick of time, mate. The red really is difficult to see sometimes. |
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Silver Member Username: Scorpio1PA USA Post Number: 310 Registered: Nov-07 | Great looking gear gentleman. Love the rack M.R. & wonderful house NIck K. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13176 Registered: Dec-04 | Add to M.R. I have always liked the look of stone, you corner looks great! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2398 Registered: Nov-05 | Thanks Nuck, the floor is slate and badly laid. It's a pig to spike & level speakers. The brick wall is better than the gyprock for the sound system. Thanks also ED, it has lost a shelf for the time being with nothing to fill it. Ideas anyone? |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2104 Registered: May-06 | M.R. Since you asked... https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/home-audio/582169.html Nice digs I might add. Effort plus on the stand too. |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2105 Registered: May-06 | Some 1,200 posts later; Happy 2nd Birthday to Stu's thread!!! Thanks for kicking this off for all of us Stu. Cheers! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2399 Registered: Nov-05 | Mike, that HRT Music streamer would look like a flea on an elephant on one of these shelves lol! But something like DAC Magic or the like could be in our future. Still a tiny thing for the shelf though :-) |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2107 Registered: May-06 | M.R. not so flea like when you have a 1Tb outboard drive parked next to it. You run all your media to the outboard 1Tb drive and use the Music Streamer from it to your kit. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2400 Registered: Nov-05 | Hmmm - thinking, thinking. That's right Mike, think of more ways to spend my money lol! |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10528 Registered: Feb-05 | Some fresh ones!      |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2923 Registered: Feb-07 | Very nice Art. Liking the look of the new speakers... |
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Silver Member Username: Scorpio1PA USA Post Number: 311 Registered: Nov-07 | Those Devores look SWEET. Very nice, better yet how do they sound? |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2720 Registered: Jun-07 | Nice Art. Are those new cutting blocks under those speakers? Or did you always have them. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10530 Registered: Feb-05 | Thanks Ed. They sound fantastic...warm and non fatigueing with great bass and high end definition. Soundstage is huge and proper placement imaging is excellent. Nick they are 15x15 in 3/4 in plywood. Very high quality ply and was only a buck each. They work great. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2403 Registered: Nov-05 | If it sounds as good as it looks, you must be happy Art. Is there much difference with the tweeters on the inside? At the distance between the speakers I would have have thought it might be better, though I guess it depends on the dispersion - and your ears of course. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10534 Registered: Feb-05 | Haven't tried it with the tweeters on the inside. At this point I'm running them the way John DeVore designed 'em. He designed them to have the tweeters on the outside and the speakers toed in to point directly at the listener. Sounds fantastic...never know though, I have thought about trying it the other way. It took quite awhile to find the right placement though so I'm a bit hesitant to move them at this point. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2404 Registered: Nov-05 | Understand - if it ain't broke. . . They are obviously very good. |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 904 Registered: Jun-08 | Sweet pics M.R. Art, I'm drooling over those apes. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10539 Registered: Feb-05 | Thanks George...they are sounding delightful right now! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2957 Registered: Feb-07 | Here's a new one of the HT. My wife and I ripped up the carpet last week and had some new flooring installed. It's totally changed the dynamics and sonics of the room - in a good way. The room is more lively, treble is more pronounced (dialog is clearer), and bass is tighter. Plus the floor looks great! Very happy...  |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2958 Registered: Feb-07 | Nuck has already pointed out the rats nest of wires. So no need.... ;-) |
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Gold Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 2128 Registered: May-06 | Nice little portable bass trap you have there. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2959 Registered: Feb-07 | Haha. It would be great if she would stop moving for more than 20 seconds. I caught her in a rare moment where she wasn't (a) running around screaming, (b) hitting her brother over the head with the phone, or © turning all the furniture upside down. |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 928 Registered: Jun-08 | Nice to see the home improvements Dave - looking good. I see the new rack in place. I see she likes the front seat...like my girls. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 2455 Registered: Nov-05 | That's right Dave, teach her to cook early. Nice set-up too! Apart from the rat's nest of wires LOL! |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10649 Registered: Feb-05 | Looks good David...I like those floors. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2962 Registered: Feb-07 | Thanks guys. The dining room is next.... |
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Gold Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 2740 Registered: Jun-07 | That is one sexy room David. Running around screaming? Turning Furniture upside down? Hitting people over the head with the phone? Sounds like my wife.LOL kidding. Typical female already I see.LOL!! |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 13330 Registered: Dec-04 | Nice work David! |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 930 Registered: Jun-08 | Holy crap! Dave, Dave...don't tell me that's a portable phone on it's stand on top of that Sierra? Naw, I gotta be seing things. A McIntosh owner would never allow that...nawww, it can't be...maybe I need glasses.  |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 931 Registered: Jun-08 | I think it is, I think it is a phone on top of dat speaker. Well, that's gotta be a compromise for the lady of the house. LOL. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2969 Registered: Feb-07 | haha. Good eye George. Yes, it's a phone. My wife put it there. In all fairness, we just put the room back together after the new flooring was installed. I've elucidated at length to my wife about the the sacrilege of putting photos, knick-nacks, doileys, etc, etc, on top of speakers. And she gets that, God love her. I'll move the phone. Promise. |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 935 Registered: Jun-08 | Whew....and I was thinking it was all downhill for you Dave. Yes, I trust you've already moved it and dusted the tops of those babies with white gloves.  |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 2970 Registered: Feb-07 | I used a sock. It was handy. |
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Silver Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 939 Registered: Jun-08 | If the sock fits... |
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Gold Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 1039 Registered: Jun-08 | I did a little buying recently. High value/cost ratio on these used items.    |
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Gold Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 1040 Registered: Jun-08 | And, for the time being, to pair with my 3B-ST and hook my GR1.2 TT through. It's an oldie but a goodie. Dead silent. This was a piece that I used to drool over when I was in my teens.  |
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Gold Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 1041 Registered: Jun-08 | The first is the Epos Els3 - picked up for $180 in new condition. The second is a Kenwood Basic Series C2 pre-amp with a MM/MC adjustible phono pre built neatly in - $100 |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 10936 Registered: Feb-05 | Very, very cool George. Nice pics as well. The little ELS3's have an addictive midrange, very open. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 3164 Registered: Feb-07 | Cool George! Very nice. |
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Silver Member Username: Scorpio1PA USA Post Number: 313 Registered: Nov-07 | Nice speakers George. Congrats.... |
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Gold Member Username: SoundgameToronto, Ontario Canada Post Number: 1042 Registered: Jun-08 | Thanks Art, Ed, Dave. Yes, interesting enough, I've done an A/B comparison of the Epos to my father's Energy Pro22 Reference monitors, which are from the mid-eightees, and though the Epos seems to hold quite well, the Energy's have got an even more natural and relaxed upper midrange. I'm going to set the Bryston, Kenwood, TT and Epos up in a bedroom and do some more listening. So far I'm enjoying them. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzPost Number: 2556 Registered: Nov-05 | Nice buy George, and good pics. Enjoy! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 3505 Registered: Feb-07 | The butt-end of my RS6's, with 9 AWG Unity cables. I recently moved them into my 2 channel system to them out with the Mac system. Got rid of the stock jumpers and used some 14 AWG home depot cable instead.  and another...  |
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Silver Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 760 Registered: Oct-07 | Just 'window shopping' and having a look at all these beautiful working systems. not a 'wall hanger' in the bunch. And, some shots show the ONE thing I miss most with my panels. The beautiful wood and wood finish that comes with most audiophile speakers. The quality shows. I had my eye on one of those Kenwoods, too. Love the Mac look, too. |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 3506 Registered: Feb-07 | I agree with you Leo. One of the things I love about speaker shopping is checking out all the the beautiful wood finishes. Of all my speakers my favourite finish is the natural bamboo of my Sierra-1's. |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 11817 Registered: Feb-05 | Bout time to update my pics...don't have the Unison amp, and the Sonneteer is soooo fine! |
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