Varnish connoisseurs

[SuperPang]

Yeah that can be a pain in the ****. Luckily when I bought mine from turntable world it was just in stock. What arm and cart? Cyrus phono? I'd get the external HR psu down the line as an upgrade definitely. Makes a good difference for the money and can be picked up for about £250 used.

Gyrodec with Tecnoarm, Ortofon Rondo Blue MC and Project Phono Box RS.

[Rossyra]

Finished it last night (Silver Spiral there for comparison). I used QED Qunex RCAs and braided the cable for a bit of added protection.

Really early days to say how good it is, but it does seem really good. I have to listen to some more stuff but I am comparing it to £100 cables it's quite hard to tell them apart. My CD player has two line outs so I can switch between sets on the fly for a straight comparison.

I've started another one too that I'll put on some better quality RCAs.

[SuperPang]

Wow! Nice work Ross Andrews!

[Rossyra]

What I am noticing at first is it holds an even sound once you start raising the volume. Where my Silver Spiral is a bright cable to begin with it starts becoming painfully bright at high volume. The home-made PTFE seems to stay more balanced

[emphatic]

Wow, seriously nice work!

[Rossyra]

Another cable in progress

[CTN]

I guess the designer is Italian though.

No, he's British. I guess this makes it worse.


The cable looks ace

[Rossyra]

I finished my second PTFE interconnect last night (That I sacrificed an Ixos Studio Gamma lead for), does anyone wanna to borrow the Qunex one? It's 45cm end-to-end so your separates will have to be hella close together.

I will want it back for my power amp eventually though.

[cools]

[geotrig]

Just ordered a slightly custom podium slim rack from hifiracks

http://hifiracks.co.uk/hi-fi-racks/19/n ... m-slimline"

Couldn't stretch to the podium reference and I don't really need the modular shelves. Quite looking forward to it. Came to around £420 in walnut with adjustable spikes.

i cant see antiques roadshow been overly impressed with these in the future. i'm only thinking of your kids kern

[geotrig]

the ones you'll eventually have with morrissey

[Rossyra]

I love a nice rack.

[SuperPang]

Walnut? Are you 65 now?

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Quietly hopes kernow forgets Pang had a walnut MVS

[CTN]

I can't think of anything I'd want to do less than procreate.

[SuperPang]

In other news I had my PSX-R (Cyrus' regulated power supply) sent off for upgrade to the new PSX-R2 while I was at the dealer. It's back already so I'll be enjoying pretending to hear a difference on Monday.

[SuperPang]

This new power supply sounds great. (Did I really just say that? )

[SuperPang]

waiting to hear your impressions of it

I was pleasantly surprised by the packaging of the Signature editions (mines a Pearl Jam). Really nice. The UI isn't as ropey as I expected either. The Ponomusic software seems really comprehensive too.

Plugged mine into my Mac and dropped some high res FLACs of my favourite music over for a listen with B&W P7.

First impression was that it sounds good. Transparent, detailed and dynamic with a lot of air around instruments. I expected it to sound warmer for some reason.

I then, perhaps unfairly, spent half an hour comparing Pono to my twice-the-price Sony ZX1. This revealed Pono's shortcomings. The air around instruments I mentioned is perhaps a little too much, everything sounds more defined on the Sony. Pono sounds looser, most noticeably in the bass department. Pono is less subtle and more unforgiving for it. The ZX1 is more focused, more musical and gets the best out of my P7s.

Not a revolution in sound then, but a decent enough $300-400 DAP.

[cools]

So they'd have been better off skimping on the packaging and giving it a better DAC, then?

[SuperPang]

Bit annoying it doesn't have a digital out.

[CTN]

does it have a line out?