Varnish connoisseurs

[Rossyra]

For the same reason an empty room sounds different to a furnished one.

[thegreathopper]

no one has mentioned monster cables only you ....you could just google about it for **** sake ...its not that hard

buy some speakers and place then on the floor and on some stands and let us know how you get on ...

Obviously I realise speakers sound better when they are elevated from the floor. What I don't understand is the how two different stands can have a "massively" different effect on the sound.

They don't it is the mind playing tricks on the listener, if it looks better some believe it sounds better.

It is the same with speaker cables and interconnects! Bi wiring is another. None of these are measurable or a difference spotted in a blind test.

But that is the fun of being an audiophool, I have tried them all and get tricked every time!

[SuperPang]

Hurrah!

[Rossyra]

It looks amazing, sounds pants through your camera though. How does it really sound?

What's the blue CPS2 game in the corner?

[Rossyra]

MSH the only other cps2 game i'd have

[yosai]

Woo light,

Cartridge and main bearing need a good few hours to settle in but it's sounding good already.

tbh it sounds no different from any other youtube vid.

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it does look rather nice though.

[Pete]

Next purchase for Kern: Audiofile camera

[thegreathopper]

Woo light,

Cartridge and main bearing need a good few hours to settle in but it's sounding good already.

Very very nice, I want one!!

[markedkiller78]

no one has mentioned monster cables only you ....you could just google about it for **** sake ...its not that hard

buy some speakers and place then on the floor and on some stands and let us know how you get on ...

Obviously I realise speakers sound better when they are elevated from the floor. What I don't understand is the how two different stands can have a "massively" different effect on the sound.

They don't it is the mind playing tricks on the listener, if it looks better some believe it sounds better.

It is the same with speaker cables and interconnects! Bi wiring is another. None of these are measurable or a difference spotted in a blind test.

But that is the fun of being an audiophool, I have tried them all and get tricked every time!

Pete was saying at the weekend that he spoke to a guy (engineer?) at Quad & he said the same thing about cables. He said the cable used in the speaker cab, between terminal & the actual speaker, is nothing special & that it has no impact on the shound.

I've never been dragged into the whole cable thing, I think the most I've paid was £20 for a custom made scart cable. As lone as the gauge of wire is decent, what else can you do?

Anyway, I am new to this, so obviously suseptible to the marketing, but speaker stands have no impact, it's just the positioning (i.e. ear hight)?

[cools]

no one has mentioned monster cables only you ....you could just google about it for **** sake ...its not that hard

buy some speakers and place then on the floor and on some stands and let us know how you get on ...

Obviously I realise speakers sound better when they are elevated from the floor. What I don't understand is the how two different stands can have a "massively" different effect on the sound.

They don't it is the mind playing tricks on the listener, if it looks better some believe it sounds better.

It is the same with speaker cables and interconnects! Bi wiring is another. None of these are measurable or a difference spotted in a blind test.

But that is the fun of being an audiophool, I have tried them all and get tricked every time!

Cables = don't buy total rubbish and there's no difference.

Stands do make a difference, but it's heavily dependent on how much volume you're kicking out and what type of music. Bolted to a big lump of cast iron filled with sand compared with bolted to one made of hardwood and you'll hear the difference.

[markedkiller78]

I'm using QED wire of some description just now. IIRC it was about £2 pm I needed 30 odd in the end (I actually should have bought 34 ) for 7.1, so cost was a big factor. it seems to do the trick.

I wont be rocking the house down, I live in a semi, so I can't see me pumping out drum & bass at max volume ever. So decent stands, that look nice shoud do the trick?

[markedkiller78]

Nice price!

[markedkiller78]

These look awesome & are relativly close to me (150 mile round trip). But >1m from the wall

http://www.hifiwigwam.com/showthread.ph ... e-speakers"

[markedkiller78]

Oh, those splendors are mine for the taking He also said they are happy with approx 20cm space around them, sound accurate?

Pang, how much will you be asking for yours next week when you buy some £20k floorstanders ?

[SuperPang]

Oh, those splendors are mine for the taking He also said they are happy with approx 20cm space around them, sound accurate?

Yep, they're a solid sealed casing and completely unfussy about positioning. Shame they're not zebrano.

[markedkiller78]

and I missed them

[SuperPang]

Giz a shout if you ever see any Vienna Acoustics Mozart Grand please Mr kern.

[markedkiller78]

I want some AG 3.0 / 3.1 / 3.5s. They are tiny

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Anthony-Gallo ... 328wt_1399"

Too expensive imo. Last set with original boxes, manuals & everything else where £1200 exc shipping.

[geotrig]

they're kinda ugly

[markedkiller78]

Wha'evah.

I like ugly