@noromance Hi Brian - it’s heavy salmon fish season so sorry for sloooooooow response. thx for asking. I got it fairly well sorted w HRS isolation base and couplers. The Kuzma likes the arm. I am holding off on investment in 12” arm for a bit as in Fall.. whole system moves to a dedicated room…. Best to you. Both @spiritofradio and @sbank heard the system during Pac Audio fest and can provide an unvarnished opinion…..
@sbank Thanks Spencer - coming from you that is high praise ;-) The Arm on the SOTA is a modified Sumiko FT3. Buddy has it in his system now. I may haul the Brinkmann / Triplaner / Lyra North this Spring….
@mglik Mike - thanks for the + comments and improvement ideas. Vandersteen make a base for the speaker made out of granite w constrained layer sandwich ( HRS technology ) and 150# of mass. The amps have built HRS hanging truss dampers built in. Essentially a constrained spring. As you probably know, spring on springs can yield 60 db + as well as cut, so will not be adding. The HRS dampers are the blue donut on the amp photo. I understand Townsend, i use HRS on most of my gear.
@noromance I dunno my single chassis RS is just phono and the REf5 is only line stage. I probably could have bought an ARc ref something phono for what i have into the Croft, Long story including a trip back to Glen. I am hopeful it will sing !!!
@gdnrbob Poverty Bay yes named for the lack of much to eat year round, probably also code for bad fishermen ! No RtR in that listening room - brought that experiment to a halt for a variety of reasons - mostly lack of source material at anything less than insane $$$$. The mobile rack has a high speed B77 half track that gets used for a variety of projects. I guess I should edit the system.
