u/Tastiehastie1977

After some deep diving, I pulled the trigger and treated my room (what was a double garage)

And for all the comments I have had about treating your room, and I always went nah…

Let’s just say I get it.

It’s not finished yet, the big cloud has to be attached to the ceiling then I will do some REW readings.

It takes a bit of getting used to at first, the room is now very quiet.

But the sound….wow. Literally feels like I have just put headphones on.

Like I say. I get it. 👍

Meant to say All done by George at Homeward Sound, for literally half the price of GIK. And he was a true pro.

Not a clue what I am up to, bought ordered a full kit to treat my room.

I was advised to find optimum baseline position for my speakers and for my seat.

So that’s the baseline…(not a clue what it means, I was feeding the results to AI and following advice.

Let’s see what the final result ends up as.

Feel free to pipe in and tell me what’s going on, and I have a mountain to climb.

I will admit though, it sounds much improved from where I had it initially. This surprised me a lot.

After my Isolation post there were many sensible replys (and many…not so sensible) on room treatment and room eq.

I’m always one for a play around. So above is a base plan and layout based on GIK acoustics advanced pack.

Q1. They recommended a movable one that I can place in the red scribble. (It’s not part of the pack I am ordering but you can get legs for the one on the conclave. Would any experienced people recommend as I have it? On the wall inside the door. (I really don’t want to pull it out all the time and then block the little light I have)

Q2. The corner piece at the top sticks out. (Right side front) is it better in the actual corner or in the conclave as is.

Q3. I thought about buying a mic and doing the tests. Looks like a learning curve of graphs etc…and I’d just do it once. Dirac or DSP isn’t an option. The tests will just tell me what I have and what I got. Any thoughts!?

Thanks

Tastie

Following on from having the guy make me some plinths and sticking some min ISO’s under them.

I went to my local stone masons and asked him to knock me up some plinths from off cuts…which he duly did (and polished, drilled holes and neatly chamfered for me)

So I took the original spikes and added them under the quartz (very heavy) to grip the carpet, (spike are on flexible epoxy for even more damping) left speakers on iso Gaia’s..and hey presto. Isolation heaven.

You can literally measure the difference with your fingers as you work down the speaker, onto the iso’s, (fyi these perform way better than you might think) onto the quartz then down the spike is virtually dead compared to the top.

Bass has really tightened and super grippy. Love it.

Had a man in the UK make me some isolation plinths, at first was for my turntable, then more for aesthetics than need I added one to my Phono. (Might be a a little effective given it’s valves)

The guy was ever so helpful, I chose the wood, the finish, he has his own feet for them, but i had a pack of Iso-acoustic mini pucks lying around.

And it works an absolute treat. Very effective and IMO looks really nice aswell. Has that hand made British feel about it. Not sure if I can put his website on here or not. But I will.

https://resonancefree.co.uk lovely guy…and nowhere near as expensive as anything else I have tried to source.

Added some Iso Acoustic mini pucks underneath my turn table and phono stage, I was getting quite a bit of low end sonic rumble causing the bass drivers to wave around.

I have been assured by the makers this kind of low end sonic rumble is perfectly normal in valve phonos. (No rumble filter)

Didn’t stop me having a go to eliminate any unwanted noise travelling into my stylus. It’s not done much for the unheard but visually apparent rumble.

I do feel they are decoupled from anything of a higher frequency traveling up there.

Especially when slamming the new Muse album (which is really good FYI) it went loud loud with no impact.

Picked up a Deco Audio - Curve phono stage today.

First valve experience.

It’s genuinely sublime, rich tonality and pulling all the detail out in a warm comforting way without muddying the water.

Seems to have really taken control of the Ortofon bronze which can be a bit screechy in the highs.

Big step up from my 10 year old Arcam RPhono which I loved. But felt it was starting to let the chain down.

The blue makes zero difference to sound quality, looks cool though. Happy Friday Everyone x

Destat 3 - Realistic Approach.

So..took delivery of my Destat 3 today..expecting it to rid me of every snap crackle and pop (Is that just a UK reference) and here is what it did and didn’t do…and perhaps some of my own findings and learnings. 

It does its job….and for 405 quid..it should. But…

1. New vinyl….100% long term going to be a great investment. ( I have a caveat..that I have no science for…it happened.)

2. Existing Vinyl….You need to do the work with a correct technique. And really good brushes +patience.

I’ll explain…

New vinyl, static hasn’t had a chance to attract and suck in dust yet. Treat it with a blast and look after it…never a problem.

Old vinyl, has had a lifetime of static every time you play to attract every molecule the air offers. And play it back to you in a snap crackle and pop.

This is where the destat will do something for you…but you need to work for a clean result. It will effectively loosen the dust allowing it to be swept off (a cheap carbon brush won’t do…just reintroducing static..spreading the germ!! 🦠)

If you wet clean before any of this, my feeling is you made soggy mud and just spread it round…creating a nightmare. (Not undoable)

In conclusion, I was disappointed at first with my purchase on old records…but on realising what it is actually doing - and finding a bit of a workflow. It genuinely works.

Anyone any thoughts..not just on destat, but anything related. 

Caveat ( 1977 Dark Side clean as a whistle, 2003 reissue poppy as hell, 50th anniversary edition poppy as hell in the same places. Yeah na..done 😆)(Also made me take a pic to post)

I don’t see a lot of Tool around reddit, probably not looking hard enough.

New Ortofon Bronze is bedding in really well, and I stuck a little light from a random website on my turntable. Ya know, so I can see it spin💆‍♂️ 🫣🤣🤣

Strangely I have two copies…luckily I’ve still not had a chance to go end to end.

I do tonight 👍

My. Sister got erasure on cassette and I got this..

Literally now a vinyl with a million memories…

Amazing I knew what’s coming when every track finished.

Still mint 👍

Good Evening..after last weeks 2m blue pissed bitch slap and killing it. The 2m bronze arrived.

First of all, I’m no audiophile journo…but is it better. 100% yes. It’s not as pitchy or scratchy, but to my ears I can really hear it. I really didn’t think it would make much difference.

I did take more time setting it up etc, so the difference could be that.

Music is just more…smooth and buttery.

Quick question though, it runs low riding….this gives me the fear, did a little vid. Is this normal!?

Have good evening folks.

[effacé]

So tonight, I inadvertently slapped the tone arm as I turned away talking to a pal…it happens..Stylus clearly ruined, and probably UB40’s signing off original obliterated…we all know that heartbreaking scratch.

My point is…this one was my fault..it is my second stylus in 7 years. (All same)

However the failure…is in the strength of the aluminium that is designed to flex..but as a structural engineer type..both failed (one of as my catastrophic action..or was it) in the same place.

What are your experiences with 2m failures…fyi left one was really old so I tried to push it back..just snapped.

Speakers arrived over lunch, so spent time setting them up, need a small play for position etc. but out the box, sound amazing.

FYI I place my Gaia 2’s from my old speakers under my Turntable…Fancy seeing how they get on as proper isolation feet rather than supplied spikes with it.

Also bit of Def Leppard on Thursday afternoon for ya 👍