FS: Custom Mana Isobarik Stands I am asking £299. New retail is £465 inc UK shipping (currency conversion available at http://www.xe.com/ucc). Only selling these to fund the purchase of new stands for larger speakers. Low cut edition. Well looked after. New sharp spikes included and a spanner if required. Smoked Glass. There are the business. These stands are essential to making the very most...

Pinkie - Breakfast up, eh? Mrs. P - Now, put that model aeroplane away and wash your hands. You look a bit peaky, if I may say so. Have you been on that newsgroup again? Pinkie - They just don't understand - I have to make them understand, it's my mission. It's all about acoustical transparency. They just don't see that in 2004 everything is perfect from mic to speaker. It's all perfect....

I've made an analogue PSU for my computer CD-rom and this is now serving as my CD player for now. Sounds better than the switch mode PSU it came with. Many thanks to ng mambers for help and advice. For the future - could ng members outline what transports they use, and what good ones they have come across and would recommend? Andy === Andy Evans === Visit our Website:- ...

I think it might be interesting to see where contributors to this ng post (or lurk) on audio topics. It would give an idea of the interests of group members, and would also give some useful ideas on groups we might drop in on. Maybe we could add a few words about why the forum is good, or what it is good at. Andy Evans: www.audioasylum.com - I read tubes, tubesDIY, SET and Tweaks. Great...

Apologies for the delay for this 'joint reply' - interrupted by a little post-prandial 'digestif' by way of a spot of Delius and VW (Larka Sending and Symphony No. 6 - still playing! :-) *Massive thanks* to *all* who responded and were, between you, just about right on the money, from what I can see of it!! (Fekkin' valvies - too damn sad/skint to be out on the ****/tiles/razzle on a...

I feel that I have no place in a group dominated (some might say terrorised) by a psychotic Scot from the print room, and a born-again Christian with a mouth like a cess-pit. Don't bother to reply, SP, I shall either be out with the Airedale, or listening to Shostokovitch on my hand-built (not home-built) valve amplifier. Cordially,

My new Cambridge Audio amp and tuner both carry instructions that the unit should be run continuously (playing music) for 36 hours "to get it performing at its best". Does anyone know what such 'running in' is supoposed to do? Robert

As some of you may be aware, I have an on-going speaker rebuild fantasy bubbling away in the background. The plan is to bi-amp, and part of this involves a second line output on the pre-amp, to send a signal to the bass amp. The bass/midrange driver will have no high-pass components in the crossover - I intend to let the bass roll off naturally, and try to match the low-pass filter feeding the...

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Seeing Stimpy's post where he mentions 320 Kbit MP3s has got me wondering..... I recently re-recorded my 'Top 20' CDs/CD rips at 256 Kbit due to now having the space to be able to do it and they sound absolutely fine - good enough to fool the 'Golden Ears Brigade' representative, hereabouts, a few nights ago, as per my recent post. I seem to remember someone somewhere saying that the...

The following is a tip passed on to me by a BBC pal. The surface noise of an LP can be greatly reduced for transcription purposes by playing wet. The BBC have been doing this for many years. One needs a solution of 60% distilled water, and 39.5% Isopropyl alcohol (also sold as

Stewart, in an earlier thread, about disc cutting, I asked why you don't come and show us all how it is done. You replied that you would be willing to do so. There is a gig at Stockholm University, during the first week of December, that needs an engineer, a real engineer, not a microphone placer and a fader twiddler like me, but an engineers' engineer like yourself. It's a live concert with a...

Hi, I am using a creative Audigy 2 that connects to my AV reciever via a homebrew toslink io connector. It has worked perfectly for 2 years, but recently, I have started noticing glitches in the sound, manifested as pops and clicks in PCM content, and squeaks in AC3 content, as well as poor detection of AC3 content on my reciever. I am keen to try to diagnose the source of these problems,...

I have recently received a cheap Chinese Sub which was badly dinged up in the delivery (thanks a bunch, DHL...) and another one is being sent for just a tenner to cover the shipping charges. So I've taped this one up pro temps and have had some noises out of it and will give it a good thrashing shortly. Anyway , the instructions are in German, so I've got some questions about the...

I'm about to embark on a speaker build, and I thought I'd check in to see what useful things other speaker builders on this ng have found out. I've built several before, but I thought to do something a little different. Design will be a 2-way (or MTM) box. The first decision I've made is to use thick alu U shape extrusions front and back. The sides will be bolted to the extrusion, and the top +...

I was going to tack this on to a post but accidentally marked the whole damn thread 'as read'! (Seems my mouse has got more sense than I have... :-) I wanted to make the point (it was the Armmstrong Siddeley Sapphire thread) that the difference between 'motoring' 50 years ago, when I were a lad and would go out for the day in me dad's lorry (which I learned to drive at the age of 12), is...

In case your radio is a bit quiet in that area this morning the reason is here. Note the previous mast height!.... http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/peterborough.asp -- Tony Sayer

Hi I'm considering a pair of Quad 11L speakers to upgrade my current system. They get rave reviews in all the mags but has anyone on here actually heard a pair? They're about the right size for my system and room (Arcam Alpha 9, Arcam Diva CD82) but I want something that won't sound boomy near a wall (about 12 inches away). I had to return a pair of B&W CDM 1's for that reason.

I believe the following speaker 'names' are now *owned* by the Chinese: Wharfedale Quad Rogers KEF Celestion Is this correct?

Due to accidental cat-related damage, it's time for me to invest in some new speakers but, to be honest, I haven't got much of a clue about what's good and not so good. I thought it might give everyone a break from the ongoing "vinyl 'n' valves" and "Stewart is/isn't an engineer" arguments to give me a few suggestions... I'm currently running a pair of 20+ year old Kef Carltons off a Cyrus 2...