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Post by MartinT on Sept 3, 2014 12:14:20 GMT
Location is always a compromise - go too far from the speakers and you end up with over-long cables. In my case, there is simply nowhere else it can go.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2014 12:30:36 GMT
Total cost a tenner plus some heatshrink Mike . Cables don't burn in do they ?  Absolutely not - all in the head  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2014 12:32:48 GMT
The discovery that proper sideboards like what my mum had, with a nice heavy lid sounds better than all the little tweaks yet tried to date. I may allow you to have the speakers separate. Interesting - there's loads of discussion in various places regarding isolation devices which go UNDER your equipment to stop vibration etc. I can't however remember ever seeing any form of device which actually covers the equipment totally in order to prevent airborne vibration. Maybe it isn't a problem anyway, although I'm sure you can affect the sound if you put your speakers too close to your amp/etc. What I been doin recently Amazing results Covers could be the next idea that might just work |
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 3, 2014 14:32:47 GMT
I remember a thing advertised in the dim & distant called an 'Ampclamp' that kept components held within a frame, pinned there by a load of spikes top, bottom & sides.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2014 15:47:50 GMT
Wonder if that was a solution looking for a problem we didn't think we had....
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 3, 2014 18:24:33 GMT
It looked like a load of hassle and potentially scratched components to me!
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 3, 2014 19:19:20 GMT
But ok apart from that |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 4, 2014 19:49:40 GMT
There have been weights in the past, for holding down a component and even affect its magnetic flux. I still have two HFN Flux Dumpers, which I use to weigh down my DACs.
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Post by Chris on Sept 4, 2014 21:06:09 GMT
I still think there's got to be a better wireless solution waiting to happen. Markets screaming out for it.
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Post by Pinch on Sept 4, 2014 22:22:57 GMT
This is not something that I'd expect to see in our lifetimes, and perhaps it will remain firmly within the realms of science fiction, though everything we currently know about the underlying workings of our sensory systems would suggest that it was theoretically possible:
Altogether doing away with what we'd consider hifi, and replacing our various bits of kit with devices which directly stimulate the relevant areas of the sensory cortex - presumably at the interface with the auditory nerves - in precisely the same way that they would be stimulated, were we actually listening live, from our preferred position, to our favourite band/orchestra/mega system, etc. The upshot would be an experience that was indistinguishable from the one that we'd actually undergo in any of these situations, though of course it would be entirely hallucinatory. No more hifi, no more sound, but potentially incredible experiences of music.
Anyway, not in our lifetimes, but one day, perhaps.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 5, 2014 7:19:27 GMT
Well the pace of change is getting faster - and if there is money to be made......
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 5, 2014 10:34:17 GMT
This is not something that I'd expect to see in our lifetimes, and perhaps it will remain firmly within the realms of science fiction, though everything we currently know about the underlying workings of our sensory systems would suggest that it was theoretically possible: Altogether doing away with what we'd consider hifi, and replacing our various bits of kit with devices which directly stimulate the relevant areas of the sensory cortex - presumably at the interface with the auditory nerves - in precisely the same way that they would be stimulated, were we actually listening live, from our preferred position, to our favourite band/orchestra/mega system, etc. The upshot would be an experience that was indistinguishable from the one that we'd actually undergo in any of these situations, though of course it would be entirely hallucinatory. No more hifi, no more sound, but potentially incredible experiences of music. Anyway, not in our lifetimes, but one day, perhaps. An elixir of music! Excellent - I'll give that a try when you develop it! My first music prescription will be for a pill for the first ever UK Hendrix gig at the Scotch of St. James, September '66, followed by a Mothers at the Fillmore, supporting Lenny Bruce in June '66. Next up, I'll take a Mt. Clemens Pop Festival in Michigan - Country Joe, MC5, Stooges, Muddy Waters, Alice Cooper, T-Bone Walker & John Mayall. That ought to do for starters! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 5, 2014 12:12:23 GMT
It's doable. Just needs a few more years.
Did you see the TV series VR5 ?
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Post by MartinT on Sept 6, 2014 11:21:49 GMT
It would rely on the concert having been recorded well in the first place, though. I'll take Hendrix at Woodstock for starters.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 6, 2014 11:23:25 GMT
Oh, and wouldn't the premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring have been fun, complete with warring audience!
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