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Post by creimes on Aug 21, 2015 23:49:00 GMT -5
Your gear all is slightly warped
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Post by vneal on Aug 22, 2015 7:44:54 GMT -5
Your gear all is slightly warped my mind on wine
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Post by goodfellas27 on Aug 24, 2015 14:00:11 GMT -5
Sensei, Where is your right side surround speaker? Is is behind the curtains? Great looking room! goodfellas27, What is the thing on the right side of the right tower speaker? I've heard nothing but good things about those Def Techs! Sealman, it's a Orec ProShield Plus. It helps with the air quality in my basement and keeps the dust to a minimum on my gear. I also have the Buttkicker. Great effect for low frequency.
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Post by frenchyfranky on Aug 28, 2015 22:54:46 GMT -5
Please let me know your finding on your next PSU Qpower, I am very interested in your thought, personally I doubt that I could hear a difference with my actual DC PSU. I wasn't sure either until Steve at Michell's told me I would be a huge improvement. Now I want to find out for myself. But I will let you know! One year after, what is your thoughts about your new Q PSU? Also note that no XSP-1 in your signature anymore, I myself get a small XPS-1 phono preamp to discard in my setup the redundant XSP-1 analog preamp and I really have no regrets.
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Post by clockwork33 on Aug 29, 2015 10:59:09 GMT -5
Please let me know your finding on your next PSU Qpower, I am very interested in your thought, personally I doubt that I could hear a difference with my actual DC PSU. I wasn't sure either until Steve at Michell's told me I would be a huge improvement. Now I want to find out for myself. But I will let you know! One year after, what is your thoughts about your new Q PSU? Also note that no XSP-1 in your signature anymore, I myself get a small XPS-1 phono preamp to discard in my setup the redundant XSP-1 analog preamp and I really have no regrets. You are absolutely right. I apologise. Time flies. The QC PSU offers an improvement. The sound is tighter with the new psu and the musicality has improved. Another plus is the 33/45 rpm switch. If you have the opportunity to audition the upgraded PSU I would certainly try it. I think you will like it. And I sold my XSP and replaced it with a XPS. But in my set up I wasn't very happy with it. Too much back ground hiss and for some reason not the same sound stage compared to the XSP. So I replaced it with a Trichord Dino MK2. For me a perfect match with Michell. Are you still happy with your XMC? I know I am.
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Post by creimes on Aug 29, 2015 14:06:19 GMT -5
XMC-1 and XPA-2 are in, sounds really good but now to do setup and Dirac which will be a slow process with a busy life at home here
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Post by altloff on Aug 30, 2015 11:43:37 GMT -5
New XPR's in place, one more XPA-5 to go and then the long wait for the XMR-1.
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Post by frenchyfranky on Aug 30, 2015 21:51:20 GMT -5
One year after, what is your thoughts about your new Q PSU? Also note that no XSP-1 in your signature anymore, I myself get a small XPS-1 phono preamp to discard in my setup the redundant XSP-1 analog preamp and I really have no regrets. You are absolutely right. I apologise. Time flies. The QC PSU offers an improvement. The sound is tighter with the new psu and the musicality has improved. Another plus is the 33/45 rpm switch. If you have the opportunity to audition the upgraded PSU I would certainly try it. I think you will like it. And I sold my XSP and replaced it with a XPS. But in my set up I wasn't very happy with it. Too much back ground hiss and for some reason not the same sound stage compared to the XSP. So I replaced it with a Trichord Dino MK2. For me a perfect match with Michell. Are you still happy with your XMC? I know I am. Absolutely love my XMC-1 and the results with the small phono preamp XPS-1 is nearly the same as the XSP-1, I didn't experience the same ground hiss and lack of sound stage as you noticed, but you know my ears are older every day, plus I found that now the advantage of Dirac on my phono stage is an improvement in my specifically bad responding room . Cheers
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Post by novisnick on Aug 30, 2015 21:59:19 GMT -5
You are absolutely right. I apologise. Time flies. The QC PSU offers an improvement. The sound is tighter with the new psu and the musicality has improved. Another plus is the 33/45 rpm switch. If you have the opportunity to audition the upgraded PSU I would certainly try it. I think you will like it. And I sold my XSP and replaced it with a XPS. But in my set up I wasn't very happy with it. Too much back ground hiss and for some reason not the same sound stage compared to the XSP. So I replaced it with a Trichord Dino MK2. For me a perfect match with Michell. Are you still happy with your XMC? I know I am. Absolutely love my XMC-1 and the results with the small phono preamp XPS-1 is nearly the same as the XSP-1, I didn't experience the same ground hiss and lack of sound stage as you noticed, but you know my ears are older every day, plus I found that now the advantage of Dirac on my phono stage is an improvement in my specifically bad responding room . Cheers Frenchy, I couldnt help but respond to your post. Ive used the XSP-1 and the XPS-1 with my XMC-1 and i dont care to use Dirac with my TT, but thats just me in my room. Just thought id add this to this thought.
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Post by johnny719 on Sept 24, 2015 1:14:33 GMT -5
Thanks, I didn't think the glass would hold it Also, that Icee machine is just awesome. Where did you find that?
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Post by The History Kid on Sept 27, 2015 22:06:14 GMT -5
This image is old now, an Oppo BDP-103 has been added to the stack.
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Post by highfihoney on Oct 8, 2015 20:19:05 GMT -5
Here is my unfinished 2 channel Emotiva room , I've had the drywall tore out from the walls & ceiling , the wall cavity & ceiling cavity filled with battons then recovered with accoustic board then finished , I'm just getting started on room treatments & have the bass traps bought , a 6 ft x 9 ft cloud for the ceiling ordered , now I have the long walls & rear wall to finish within the next 6 month's or so . Rig rundown . Speakers , Mcintosh XR-290 line arrays . Preamp , Emotiva RSP-1 . Source , Emotiva ERC-1 CD XDA-1 dac combo . Amplification for the biamp is Emotiva XPR-1 monoblocks powering all 8 woofers & an Emotiva XPR-2 stereo amp powering the 24 mids & 48 tweeters. Power filtration via 3 Emotiva CMC-2 with each amp on its own 20 amp line , an Emotiva CMC-6 is powering the rest of the gear on a 15 amp line . All cables & wires are Emotivas totl speaker wires with banana plugs . Room correction via multiple DBX eq's & analyzers along with some Mcintosh measuring tools . The speakers are cornered & they must stay that way as I have animals & 400 lbs of speaker falling on an animal, or my wife would mean instant death , my bass traps will help stop the bloating . It's taken 2 years to get this far with this room but I'm sooooo close now with just needing to mount the tv & address the room It's 99% finished ,i still have to get my sons to lift the speakers so i can put the risers under them, I'm hoping to have the panels & cloud finished & placed before we leave this house & head back to the city november 1st , if so I Will update with finished room pics , if not finished it'll be May of next year before we get back to this house & I can finish the room . BTW , this taptalk app is horrible , it's taken allmost an hour to post this .
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Post by klinemj on Oct 8, 2015 20:25:01 GMT -5
Ceiling filled with "buttons"? Not following...can you elaborate?
Mark
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Post by highfihoney on Oct 8, 2015 21:14:30 GMT -5
Ceiling filled with "buttons"? Not following...can you elaborate? Mark Buttons it figures , thanks for pointing that out & i just corrected the spell check typo , Emotiva keeps comming out as Emotion , Mcintosh came out as Macintosh plus a dozen other words the taptalk app butchered . Buttons has been corrected to battons , its an insulation that helps the accoustics placed in the cavity before the board .
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Post by highfihoney on Oct 8, 2015 21:49:42 GMT -5
Man I'm having a he'll do of a time with this phone app , my response was supposed to include this drawing showering how my room in uncoupled from the structure , our HT is built the same way by the same installers & worth every red cent .
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Post by klinemj on Oct 8, 2015 21:52:20 GMT -5
LOL! Now I get it!!! Darn spell chocks. Looking good, by the way! Mark
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Post by vneal on Oct 9, 2015 7:32:15 GMT -5
Those one of a kind McIntosh speakers look great
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Post by highfihoney on Oct 9, 2015 17:18:39 GMT -5
Those one of a kind McIntosh speakers look great Thanks , they sound way better than they look , once my sons get the risers that go with them installed next week they'll sound even better .
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Post by pedrocols on Oct 9, 2015 18:52:09 GMT -5
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Post by novisnick on Oct 9, 2015 19:01:40 GMT -5
We all get this memo my friend,,,,,,,,sad part, they are usually correct! It makes for a better forum.
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