Welcome newcomers!

My Music & Kit

OK Guys and Few Gals here's my stuff,

The Music (The music has got to be first)

Pink Floyd (Erm where's my joint?)
Mahler (Its very quiet,....... SHIT THAT'S BLOODY LOUD)
Black Sabbath (It's just Sabbath!)
Judas Priest (Loudest Band Ever Live 120b @ 50m from stage 1984 Maple Leaf Gardens), ahhh if only I had the power.
Motorhead (Not as loud as everyone thinks, more kind of..erm.. noisy)
Captain Beefheart (Very wierd)
Fun Lovin Criminals (Very bass heavy, room shakingly good)
Roger Waters (See Floyd above).
Blah Blah Blah



The Kit

Transport --- Teac VRDS-T1
DAC --- Teac D-T1
Amp --- Nad C-370
Speakers --- Mordaunt Short 25i Pearl

Cable --- Shitty Gale Xl310 Biwire (upgrading soon) (
Interconnect --- QED QNect2 (upgrading soon)

Mains Cable --- Who gives a shit, cos theres about 12m of unshielded, dubious quality copper running from the socket, through the wall to the mains inlet supply to the house (Fuse Box).


The Room

Lets not forget that the room is like the inside of a big speaker cabinet, the dimensions do affect the sound.

In this case 4.5m x 4.0 m (Small enough to let the MS25i Pearls do some trouser flappling..... just, with some helpful room nodes)@ about 40hz (Fun Lovin Criminals >> Loco >> Run Daddy Run) EEEEHHAAAA

 

Dex,
You need to sort your mains cables, dude!
It does make a differance IMO.

Regards,
andy c!

 

Mains stuff

Hello Andy C,
I will try the mains cable thing soon, but I still think it's a slightly dodgy money making scheme. (Apart from the HF and transient filtering, protection thing etc)

P.S. I do have a Beng (hons) In Engineering with Microelectronics, so I do understand all the basic electrical and mechanical principles. So I still say "What about the 12m or so of unshielded bog standard copper cable that runs through the walls of your house to the mains inlet?"

Anyway I'll try it out and post the results. (Not here, cos it's the wrong place). Maybe I'll start a myths and legends of Hifi thead, but with some kind of scientific input and debate.



Happy Listening
Dex

 

after months of lurking, I register. My initial interest, 12 months ago was AV: going wide-screen, DVD and 5.1, and then I started listening to music again and went on a HiFi upgrade. That was on AVforums where I got some useful advice, inc that from some leading lights on this place. I now also do the AVTalk thing.

but to where I am now, in terms of HiFi kit, of which all but speakers have been bought second-hand or refurbished over the past nine months, thanks to excellent advice:

Meridian 602 CD Transport
AudioSynthesis Dax Decade
AudioLab 8000S (in power amp setting)
into
Celestion Ditton 15s (as purchased by me in 1976)

For AV, I have
Toshiba SD510 dvd player/Denon AVR2802 amp/Tosh 32ZD26/Gallo Micros as L/R front and Gallo D'Avia centre + Velodyne VX-10 sub-woofer, with the Dittons acting as AV surrounds (with pre-out from the AVR2802 into the AudioLab).

I use a s/h fully built 4 tier Mana stand.

I'm now enjoying the music, but reckon that Santa might bring me some replacement speakers.

 

Welcome ditton - I recognize the nickname from AVForums

I actually followed a similar route to you to "get back" into hifi. It all started when I decided I needed a widescreen TV. That led to AV forums, which led to a 5.1 surround system and then - "hello" what happened to the music? And so began the never ending quest

Michael.

 

thanks for the welcome. as you know, you were among my 'advisors' when I started wondering. and as you can see I acquired a dac, and a top transport. and I'm enjoying the result.

 

Hi ditton, good to see you here...

 

and Hi to you Antonio.

as you can see, I've stayed with an integrated AV amp - time, exprience & money may all build to give me the wherewithall to move on that front - and AV-Talk is now my source of advice.

on the HiFi side, along with public domain help from the likes of yourself (and the Sounddog, etc), I have had a lot of help/confidence from GaryG, as well as the likes of the HiFi buffs on AVT. However, I'm now, IMHO, into the tweaking and HiFi-specific.

Obviously, I must pay attention to those who are prompting the retiral of the Dittons - and theefore also look at the active speakers side. Plenty of opportiunity for auditions I hope once our living room has been refurbished: wooden floors, central carpet etc.

Peter

 

If ever I start a new system, highly unprobable, as mine now sounds just as I like, I will try very hard to find active speakers that sound my way, I am a bit fed-up with the forest of cables behind my rack...

I have done some hifi-specific tweaking, mainly mains related, since I was banned from AVF , also replaced the TAG with a Krell Showcase when they released those funny news... :JPS:

 

Hi all, have just found this bastion of knowledge at last.

I come from a mainly AV background and have a very modest setup at the moment.

I came here to see some views on the pro-ject one expression turntable but see there are none I am looking to purchase a turntable at the very budget end just to make use of the slew of vinyl I have from my DJing days. My current "setup" is as follows and is decidedly low end compared to you guys, but Xmas IS coming........

Yamaha RVX795a AV receiver
Pioneer DV535 DVD player
OLD and I mean OLD Denon DVD player that I inherited from my dad and used in the PC room for 7 years with a twenty year old Technics amp
Mission series 700 5.1 Speakers
Cheapest Eltax sub that you have never heard of.

I'm afraid thats about it.......... Serves its purpose I suppose.

Also, I work for a large AV retailer (You wouldn't think so with my kit tho........)

Cheers, Brock.

 

Hi Brock

Welcome to the forum!

I wasn't aware denon were even making dvd players 7 years ago!

I'm not sure if the Xpression has been discussed much here, but i'm sure if you start a thread asking about it and for information on other possible turntables in a given budget you should get some useful advice. A lot of members here buy lots of kit second hand and may be able to help you pick up something with even MOre sound per pound like that!

I use the Pro-Ject Debut II Phono. For the MOney it seems a bargain. I'm not too clued up on tt's and haven't much experience to rate/compare it against other decks. But, it gives me a vinyl option, and sounds good to me.

I'd imagine the Xpression, complete with carbon fiber arm would be even better!

 

hello all,

just saw this and though i would introduce myself.

i think a lot of can be known by peoples music tase so here is mine in breif.
I would say music is one of my biggest passions as i guess it is with most of you, i have a collection of about 150 / 200 albums ranging from Massive attack, Dido, Disturbed, Pink Floyd, Eminem, muinistry of Sound and Bob Marley. so a very varied collection in my eyes.

i hope that give you an idea.

 

Hi Zoomer.

Welcome to the forum!

Strange! aMOngst others i've today listened to Massive Attacks 100th Window. Bob Marleys Kaya and Exodus. And Now have Pink Floyd on!!!

Good taste mate Well, apart from Dido who's suffering from over exposure me thinks. I've heard her latest so many time now I cringe!!!

 

Hello all
I've posted a couple of times so I thought I'd introduce myself since I've been reading posts since day zero of this fine forum. I have an AV setup, toshiba dvd player, denon receiver, sonus faber speakers and rel sub, not a purist setup by forum standards but I enjoy it very, very much. I'm not mentioning the cables I use, either
This is my cd collection courtesy of Music Collector cataloging software, classical music not included because I'm still deciding wether to catalog it by composer or by interpreter (Is this the correct word, I mean the person/orchestra/ensemble who plays it - michaelab, you use this software, what works best?). I'm quite new to classical music, anyway.
I'm currently deciding if I'm going back to a stereo setup together with the AV rig, sharing the speakers, I'd need to buy some power amps and a stereo preamp, and also a cd player, the speakers are keepers, or to spend big money on a good AV processor and DVD player, power amps also, this is the movie/music fan dilemma.
Anyway, glad to be here, you are a friendly and knowledgeable bunch.

 

Welcome to the forum polaco - another Lisbon member

I haven't done my classical music yet in Music Collector for basically the same reason. I'd like to classify them by composer but quite a lot of classical records have more than one composer on them so which do you choose? It's compounded by the fact the CDDB tends to put "Artist" as the conductor or soloist rather than the composer or 'main' composer on the CD.

All that means that in order to classify my classical discs will take a lot more manual editing of the data read in from CDDB

Michael.

 

thanks,

I must agree the latest single she has out isnt to my liking that much.
Although on her new album there are at least 3 great tunes.

 

Bonsoir all. A few of you may know me from other fora, but new to here.

I'm currently running a Cyrus CD8, Pioneer A717 and some Dyn 42's with Chord IC's, but planning to change the Pio for a Pre X (PSX'd) and a pair of Mono X's and the Dyns for Totem Model One's.

Musically, I'm into it all but rock would be my undisputed favorite, bit of metal, bit of D+B/trip/Techno, bit of everything really.

 

Hi forum.

How are everybody. I have been registered and read this forum from day 0 and have up till now not posted.

So now I will.

I have been working in hifi industry as salesman in a branch of Sevenoaks hifi for 4 years and currently in limbo while im at university, but Sevenaoks up here already have my details and should be working there shortly.

Im also a Cyrus nut. Owned more boxes then I have fingers and toes over the last 5 years or so.

Hurrah.

I also live when not at home in the same town as the great (will that win me points?) wadiameister.

 

Welcome to the forum Jeremy. There does seem to be a "South West" concentration on here for some reason

I was going to add something about WM and gravity but perhaps I shouldn't

Michael.

 

LMAO!