Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

can you stick a load of dynamat acoustic damping sheets to the insides/underneath of it (the table rather than speakers)?

As above - small shelves or stands for speakers, a surface for the laptop to sit on and dynamat under the surface.

You can buy isolation pads for bookshelf/computer speakers to sit on but they might not be enough for such a resonant surface.

wife ... talking

There's your problem. Right there.

Wall mount the speakers.

denon pma350se & some tannoy sixes or some royd minstrels = £150

he'd have change for a chrome, some cables and a cd player if he wanted.

MASSIVE 15" tannoy monitor golds are the only solution

you're Andy Capp and ICMFP

buy another desk.
The expense of second desk, will be about the cost of all other alternatives to isolate everything..

I'm with Corny.

but I think i'll try and make it work first though. Can't wall mount as it's stud and plasterboard only and my (active) monitors weigh a ton. Which is annoying because I have a set of Q Acoustic wall-mounts sitting unused. These are up for grabs if anyone fancies btw.

My first attempt is going to be an anti-vibration rubber mat (intended for a washing machine) trimmed to size under a under a pile of bricks, topped with isolating foam pads.

Going to put foam pad under the iMac too.

Ps3 have an optical out with various encoding. Get something like a Cambridge audio azur av amp £50/100 then spend rest on speakers.
Half of Ps3 are sacd drives in them and sound fair good even if not.
Then get a little USB dac from Amazon, £30 for everything else.

Cheers everyone. He's got a setup now, he found a deal on a CA amp & CD player on eBay, and bought some speakers (not sure what though).

Now my Quad 303 is misbehaving. Not sure why, will video it when it next happens.

@hamsandwich pm'd about the Q acoustic speaker mounts.

http://www.superfi.co.uk/p-2830-q-acoustics-2000-series-wall-bracket-single.aspx

bnib, £25 the pair if Jack doesn't want.

So I unpacked my monitors and set them up on foam mounts on the clangy desk. Stood the iMac on a velvet pad. Plugged in my Apogee Duet, connected up one monitor and... appear to have only packed one speaker cable. wtf? how? where could the other one POSSIBLY be? In with the Christmas decorations? Ffffff...

Perhaps you'll get to like listening to all your music remixed in your avant-garde mono-klang-reverb studio?

Urgh. Have ordered some new 1/4" to xlr cables.

@Apone You will find the lost cable as soon as the new ones arrive.

Is there some kind of Bluetooth transmitter I can pop in the headphones jack of my stereo to stream records from the lounge to a Bluetooth speaker elsewhere in the house?

Loads, bluetooth doesn't travel that far so needs to be fairly nearby https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bluetooth+transmitter&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abluetooth+transmitter

Ace, thanks.

does anyone have any recommendations?

seen a turntable up for sale in a flea mkt - technics q200 its only 15 quid, need to check if it works but are they any good ???

Something with APTX if the speaker that's receiving it supports it.

Chaps, got a mate selling lots of things as he's buggering off back to Oz, thought this may be of interest to the forum.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-Stereo-Receiver-SA-520-vintage-amplifier-made-in-Japan-/222313676442?hash=item33c2ed7e9a:g:RCsAAOSwx2dYKIs-

I found a couple of these Sony Super Metal Master tapes that I got from Richer Sounds dirt cheap many many years ago in a box and wondered if there was a market for these sort of artifacts and by golly there is.

£70 each, nice!

Sony Super Metal Master tapes

People are weird. Flog 'em and treat yourself to something useful.