Folkfreak's System

Some changes underway -- out with the complexity of a Vivaldi stack and master clock, in with a new one box CD/SACD player. And finally a replacement for the VOSS Phono Stage that has been out of a...

posted about 1 year ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for the kind words @mclinnguy and @scar972 - I am more than pleased with how everything ...

posted over 1 year ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for the kind words @mclinnguy and @scar972 - I am more than pleased with how everything ...

posted over 1 year ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for that @mashif!Recent addition of the Marigo Virtuoso Black CD mat has taken digital up another level, this product radically cleans...

posted almost 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Actually my typo -- I was referencing Lindsay of Crawford who fought at Falkirk -- in my wargaming sideline this is one of the battles I'm interested in (just as soon as I get done with the Albigen...

posted almost 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for the positive feedback @tvad (like the coat of arms -- Scottish Ancestry, Lindsay or Crawford perhaps?)Anyway I have extra chairs if we have visitors -- the addition o...

posted almost 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks so much for the kind words @barrysandy  , @mnappi and @hifihandyman -- much apprec...

posted almost 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

@noromance -- actually the system was assembled while I lived in the USA (where I lived for 25 years paying tax and healthcare) -- and as regards health care and...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Hi @mmcgill829 and @mmark -- thanks for your kind feedback and glad you appreciate the systemAlso

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks @milpai - well spotted. I made sure to highlight it there so that the did that did the build got some publicity!

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for the question @mfaoro The chair is a copy of the Swan Chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen. You can by an original or one of the...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Firstly thanks to everyone who looked at and commented on my system after it was featured this weekend. Addressing some of the points raised @yoyoyaya  ...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Thanks for the kind words @rman9 -- sorry we weren't able to connect in PDX and have you round with my old system (https://www.audiogo...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

@tomcar -- as ever I'm amused to see things like this https://www.monoandstereo.com/?p=25572 -- wonder what that sounds like, I c...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

@honeyooi thanks for your message and question about the Herzan. I actually looked into the Herzan after seeing how Mike Lavigne used them. So no I never tried a...

posted over 2 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

Thanks Dan -- I have toyed with the idea of adding subs in my new room (a REL six pack) but the cost/complexity/scale is kind off off putting and the ultimate bottom end is all there, albeit somewh...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Great to see all of the interest in what I've been lucky enough to be able to do here in Kent -- and appreciate all of the kind comments and thoughts.Tom and DJ -- glad you like...

posted over 2 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

Thanks Dan. My learning is that it pays to I’ve the room as much as if not more attention than the components. Most of the improvements I’ve gotten over the past ten years have come from improving ...

posted over 2 years ago

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Folkfreak's System

Welcome to a long awaited update to my system now I'm settled in the UK. After four years, several of which with no system and one false start in another location, I finally have a setup that I'm r...

posted over 2 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

I have now move this system over to a description of my current UK setup -- hope to see you all there soon! https...

posted over 2 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

Quick update on the ongoing story of my UK setup. As I mentioned after only seven months or so of use for my new room in West Sussex I'm moving again! 

posted almost 5 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

So after six months with my new room I'm moving! Onwards and upwards to a bigger room (6m x 8m appx) which I can learn from the one I just had built -- lots of good lessons, and particularly the pr...

posted almost 5 years ago

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Small Room, Big Sound

After over a year I can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. I have a two car detached garage that we are planning to convert to an audio room and with luck the work should be completed by e...

posted over 5 years ago

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Jazdoc's "Not Off The Rack" System

Congrats on the Tosca! I had mine installed for just a few hours before I had to break my system down for my relocation. Even so the first impressions were astounding, it’s a great arm and a pleasu...

posted over 6 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Hi Mike -- with my system now in storage for a year I'll have to live vicariously through yours. Agree on the Tosca, I had mine up and working for all of an hour and even with t...

posted over 6 years ago

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