Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

In another note, do people buy into the "keep your electronics in a place that is not between the speakers"?

It is supposed to be bad for imaging and stereo to have them in between the speakers. Huh?

My setup is pictured. I could move the electrics to the shelf on the left, under the fish tank. Hassle though.

The whole positioning thing is such a compromise isn't it? Ideally the speakers would be further into the room and the right one would be well away from that corner. But then where does the TV go? etc etc.

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The TV goes on the wall.

In the centre.

(LOL)

That wire cage in front of the fireplace is going to cause all sorts of electrical refraction waves.

Not an issue if you have an air to air deionization device

But if you've got shielded cables you'll be fine, surely?

In a perfect listening room, sure there might be some discernible difference but in the average house there’s no point.
You mainly want the speakers roughly equidistant from walls and equidistant from (and aimed at) the listening position. I can’t see that you’ll get many reflection/imaging issues from electronics unless the room depth is very shallow.

I'd get rid of the vase on the speaker first :)

As long as the crystalline structure maintains a northerly direction.

Hafe you tried these guys http://www.audioloudspeakers.co.uk/ for Recones - They used to do a fair bit of reconing for me a few years ago. my experience with them is mostly PA though. -

Sound stage I think not electrical interference

I'd get rid of the vase on the speaker first

I hear you.

I wonder if it makes much difference.

Could you move them to the short wall of the room? Was a yuge improvement for me, reorienting my listening position thro 90 degrees.

Edit: In those positions your next speakers should probably be front ported or sealed rather than rear ported. That means the Kef's are out

Could you put those speakers (or floorstanders!!) either side of the fireplace?

Could you put Henry away?

@Airhead @danb

Regarding my rogue hum between pre and power amp.

I am an idiot.

I got some great advice on the CU forum to plug in just one end of the interconnect and test for resistance between centre pin of the other end of the IC and chassis ground.

I spent a while testing and recording the results before the penny dropped. Outer connection (return) to chassis ground gave me around 10kΩ resistance with the old ICs but 0Ω with the new ones. So why would that be?

The new ICs have a slightly shorter centre pin and so the RCA plug seats more deeply than the originals. The return connection of the outer RCA plug on the new IC was making a connection between the two cases. Because both pre and power amps have double insulated cases (ie. they are ungrounded) and each contains a toroidal transformer, the cases were getting mildly excited by the electromagnets. Pushing the RCA plug on too far was introducing this to the return path of the interconnect signal.

Solution: don’t push the IC plugs on quite so far. Hum now completely gone.

hah! glad you got it solved :)

Odd semi

Not surprised it was something like that. I've had a few odd ones diying phono connectors and melting the insides of them with the heat from soldering etc. I like XLR now!

Any one building a cinema? This is cheap.

For sale is one Cinema grade THX Certified JBL 5.1 Screen Array. I purchased it from a Soho post production suite and had it set up at home but sadly I split with my partner a number of years ago and since then has been stored in my friends house.

This is the system you'll see installed in many UGC/Cineworld/Vue cinemas up and down the country. It goes stupidly loud, which isn't surprising as I was using in a largish size home cinema whereas it's designed to cater for 100s so it's never been pushed.

It consists of the following:
1x Center 4638 Cab Bass/Mid
2x L&R 4648A Cabs Bass/Mid
3x HF 2446H on 2380 horns HF
2x 4645C Subs
6x 8340A or 8330s Surrounds (I forget which will check)

It's in good condition working order. It was listed up for £6500 a few years back but just ended up with getting a lot of tire kickers, or people not realising what it actually was, or how big. So priced to clear now. If it doesn't sell I'll be stripping out the components and selling them individually to the pro audio boys.

So yeah, it's big, very big, it sounds fantastic, it's not pretty hifi, headroom for days.

Price and currency: £3000 ono

Just some of the kit.

Pics might help to sell it

It is quite niche kit, so pics wouldn't mean anything.

I was thinking of purchasing it and stripping the bits to sell. But don't have the storage. It is big.

O lawd. If I owned a warehouse I would be all over this. But alas it may be a tad too much for my 16sqm living room!

Sounds like it would be all 16sqm room...

Boo