sbank's Austin City Within Limits

My wife handmade the "tiny VPI" copying the one I had. Platter spins, arm moves too, haha.

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@bslon the VPI has been gone for over over 8 years. I upgraded to a Technics SP10mkII that I ran for 3-4yrs. Sold the hole analog rig to a friend as I embarked o...

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bslon's System

Well done, Bill! I used to own Aerial 7s, so I can only imagine how great the 7Ts are. Dying to hear the 9.0X some day. That's on my short wishlist. Love t...

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

I've got The Sota spikes sitting on Walker Audio lead/brass discs to accept the sharp points. Just using the Walkers because I had them. Those are on a DIY maple inlaid slab that was made as an amp...

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

Time for those photos, James, including the LPs!

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@edsel95 Thank you. More wood now...just built some DIY cable lifters. Adding pics soon. Some will debate the merits of such a project, but at a ...

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Deja Vu all over again!

A system worthy of a great audiogoner! Genius choices for a smaller room. Cheer, Jon.Spencer

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Slaw...

Love it, Steve!We gotta talk vinyl cleaning one day. It looks like a vinylstack is used with your US machine...that's what I use...followed by some DIY hacked rinses/vacuum. 

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edsel95's Music Room System

Very nice rig and beautiful room, enjoy @edsel95 Cheers,Spencer

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Main System

Hi @no_regrets, popped over here after reading your post about the Wavestream. Did that replace the Artemis? I have heard so little about Wavestream in the last ...

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jjss49's System

Boy, I bet you have a lot of fun in there! Well done. Cheers,Spencer

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Added NOS Tel Wire HC Cord power cable on the Krell amp, Cord PCs on preamp and DAC and Connect XLRs from phono stage to preamp.

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jl1ny's System

Wonderful system! Enjoying your networking thread which led me here. Cheers!

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Music Room - North

@tomic601 I recall you selling that one to your buddy. For some reason, I was thinking you have another with a 4Point arm.

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Music Room - North

@tomic601 Among the loveliest of rigs in the loveliest of rooms. Is that the Kuzma in the VTA pic?

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Just ordered a Hart record cleaning brush after watch Fremer's shootout video. This will replace my Acoustech Big Brush.

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

James, wonderful setup! The K'horns visually look just right style-wise in your room, too. Bet it sounds great.Years ago, I owned a Berning ZH-270 amp and was very impressed wit...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Inakustik Reference USB cable added between the opticalRendu and the Denafrips Pontus II DAC

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I'm done (mostly)

Let's see the new table! & Congrats.

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notdeadyet System

If you can't pull the speakers forward, you might try some absorption behind them and a diffusor between them. You may find this cleans up bass clarity and improves focus.

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notdeadyet System

@notdeadyet Nice job!  Have you ever tried playing around with speaker placement? Getting them out 1,2, or 3 ft. from the wall may provide significant impro...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Added a new piece of art in the listening room. Concert poster from my first show at Austin City Limits' Moody Theater.

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@slaw Yes, she is. I tell her so every day!

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

I bought the Nagra used 3 yrs. ago, so can't really say about "over the years". It sounds pretty fine; dead quiet(it's battery powered) and very natural, detailed and spacious. I pondered an u...

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@slaw Hi Steve,The amp stand and matching one now under my Sota are made by my wife. We bought huge pieces of essentially maple butcherblock ...

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