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DrewDays Senior Member Posts: 53	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #100 - 03/15/23 at 17:38:21 Very true. Budget is a major factor in the equation. I'm torn between a completely refurbished Otari MX-5050 BII and a J-Corda Technics RS1500 at the moment. They got you hooked when you were young. ;D
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Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises!
Reply #101 - 03/15/23 at 19:50:26

I really enjoy the Otari's and always have. I have only heard a Technics and never had one personally but I know they are coveted. The Otari with say an external head amp (if you get that deep) would probably be end game for anyone who has access to recordings done properly, in a nice proper as possible room. I know what Steve is experiencing when I see his reactions or hear him speak. It is "another plane" stuff and I feel blessed to have experienced it even if I never do again. Just incredible.

Good luck on the tape journey.

Charlie

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #102 - 04/01/23 at 20:10:35
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Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises!
Reply #103 - 04/27/23 at 15:44:09

Currently:
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Everything from 30hz to the supertweeters is fully on the fly adjustable from the listening position. Things just float around the room in a sometimes 360 degree audio presentation that disappears into a wall of sound that is deeper and wider by far than the actual dimensions of the room. It is the best audio I personally have heard. Organic, natural, unbloated, and just head bobbing/toe tapping audio joy.

2023 find/finish a turntable, and decide on a centerpiece amplifier or upgrade the one pictured to wrap it all up.

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Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises!
Reply #104 - 04/27/23 at 15:57:26

Meant totally in the right way, some systems are fun to look at. It took a second to see the RTR machines hiding back there.
TBH, this looks like one of the very few systems where someone has actually addressed important room issues, and I can imagine that the presentation of the music reflects that. Great job.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #105 - 05/09/23 at 05:06:11 Lucid tonight......
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ArtMan Seasoned Member Posts: 184	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #106 - 05/09/23 at 07:23:35 Sweet.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #107 - 05/27/23 at 11:15:59
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Dominick Seasoned Member Still like that old time Rock and Roll!! Posts: 1422	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #108 - 05/28/23 at 05:26:53 Charles…..stunning is an understatement!! I would never want to leave. I’m sure the room treatment makes that room sing!! Dom
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Kamran Seasoned Member Sarah Posts: 1178	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #109 - 05/30/23 at 03:03:47 Fantastic setup Charles!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #110 - 08/08/23 at 10:10:58 Speakers disappear and it's simply the music and you!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #111 - 08/29/23 at 03:59:14 My ohhhh my.... SE84UFO25
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Tony Seasoned Member "Life without ..music is inconceivable" A.Einsteln Posts: 744	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #112 - 08/29/23 at 04:09:11 Charles, If you don't mind me asking, what components are to the left and right of the SE84UFO25? BTW, the room looks great.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #113 - 08/29/23 at 04:22:42 Quicksilver Horn Monoblock amplifiers.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #114 - 08/30/23 at 00:43:58
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Kamran Seasoned Member Sarah Posts: 1178	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #115 - 09/01/23 at 03:52:22 Love your room and equipment Charles. I noticed that you’re selling your cream top Rachael! Good luck. Would love to know your take on the various amps (Rachel, UFO25, Quicksilver) you have used over the years.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #116 - 09/01/23 at 08:49:03 Keeping it. ;)
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #117 - 09/25/23 at 21:30:02 Sarah has arrived and I must say....... well I'm not saying anything right now, but I am full of thoughts so until I sort them out I'll keep them to myself. This is a gorgeous amp.
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Geno Seasoned Member Without music, life would be a mistake. Posts: 2219	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #118 - 09/25/23 at 22:02:30 This forum has no “like” option so…
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HockessinKid Seasoned Member Posts: 1247	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #119 - 09/25/23 at 22:52:52 [Congratulations Charles. Just enjoy the ride. HK
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 25754	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #120 - 09/25/23 at 23:29:56 Congrats Charles! Saw this on one of the other forums. You're going to be happy.
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Sean Seasoned Member Posts: 363	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #121 - 09/26/23 at 01:06:04 Looks great!!!
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Ghostship Seasoned Member Posts: 155	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #122 - 09/26/23 at 10:00:46 Congrats!!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #123 - 09/26/23 at 22:16:00
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HockessinKid Seasoned Member Posts: 1247	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #124 - 09/27/23 at 00:13:33 Beautiful Charles. What is the base wood you selected? HK
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #125 - 09/27/23 at 04:56:25 Zen............ This SEWE300B Zen Sarah is really outstanding.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #126 - 09/27/23 at 06:09:10
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 25754	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #127 - 09/27/23 at 08:04:34 Definitely agree. . .outstanding.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #128 - 10/04/23 at 00:33:20
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 25754	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #129 - 10/04/23 at 00:49:28 Wish I had a room like that for my system! Maybe in the next life.
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Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises!
Reply #130 - 10/04/23 at 04:02:42

Nice system.

I think there is a post by Steve where he suggest putting a rug in front of your speakers. I have one in front of my Cornwalls and helps with the focus.

This is the mat I purchased of Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JCZDZXZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?i...

It may help that tiny bit.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #131 - 10/04/23 at 06:02:29 Funny you mentioned it as I ordered one this morning for that area. 8-) Man I secretly hope to find a set of Cornwall I's again someday within a reasonable drive. I miss mine I had almost 20 years ago.
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Tony Seasoned Member "Life without ..music is inconceivable" A.Einsteln Posts: 744	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #132 - 10/04/23 at 06:54:59 If I remember correctly, Steve recommended that the direction of the stripes on the rug made a difference. The short side of the rug goes along the base of the speaker and the long side points directly at the listening position. That way the stripes point at the listener.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #133 - 12/04/23 at 23:10:12
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 25754	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #134 - 12/04/23 at 23:25:52 Charles, have you tried 75C1 yet? I took my trio out one at a time then two at a time substituting 0C2 . . . and I couldn't return to a trio of 75C1 fast enough. At least for my system they are very special!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #135 - 12/04/23 at 23:29:51 Quote: Charles, have you tried 75C1 yet? Not yet. I have a half dozen new ones that came in a few weeks back when my amp was with Steve though.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 25754	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #136 - 12/04/23 at 23:31:56 Good. I love those tubes. I used to use them as voltage regulation for the input tubes in my SE84UFO3 Monoblocks and they really shined there as well. There's a richness to them I haven't found in other voltage regulation tubes--not mud, just a full sound.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #137 - 12/08/23 at 04:58:39 Finishing up on a totally different system variation, with high powered tube amps, and speaker placement. I'm again, blown away right now. Middle: Audio Research VT100 MKII, and/or Sonic Frontiers SFM-160 monoblocks. Halcyon-Mark Audio floorstanders custom built by Jon Anderson!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #138 - 02/05/24 at 16:17:06 Holy Moses!
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Reply #139 - 02/06/24 at 16:17:30

I have an imaging enhancement for you. Let's talk about drapes... To understand how much sound they absorb and at what frequencies vs. bare glass there is a simple and effective test.

Turn on your stereo -- open the drapes and stand with your back against the glass -- listen to your room. Shut your eyes. Now close the drapes over your face and see what you hear change. If nothing changes, you can hear the sound perfectly, then it can be assumed the drapes do nothing.

My guess is that will probably happen, and it would likely take at least 10 layers of those drapes to make an audible difference. If the drapes are never opened, you could hang some moving blankets behind the drapes. If they are opened then I would encourage you to make heavy heavy drapes your next audio purchase.

Steve : )

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Geno Seasoned Member Without music, life would be a mistake. Posts: 2219	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #140 - 02/06/24 at 19:44:32 Quote: heavy heavy drapes Heavy drapes rather than diffusion?
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Reply #141 - 02/07/24 at 00:05:31

Quote:

I have an imaging enhancement for you. Let's talk about drapes... To understand how much sound they absorb and at what frequencies vs. bare glass there is a simple and effective test.

Turn on your stereo -- open the drapes and stand with your back against the glass -- listen to your room. Shut your eyes. Now close the drapes over your face and see what you hear change. If nothing changes, you can hear the sound perfectly, then it can be assumed the drapes do nothing.

My guess is that will probably happen, and it would likely take at least 10 layers of those drapes to make an audible difference. If the drapes are never opened, you could hang some moving blankets behind the drapes. If they are opened then I would encourage you to make heavy heavy drapes your next audio purchase.

Steve : )

My plan at some point was to experiment with a window "plug" to slide in the recessed window area as I almost never open things, and it could be squeezed in for a perfect fit and depth of around 4". I did had a few "quilt hangers" (8' long with two 1x2 flat pieces of hardwood you mount the blanket in then use screws to compress the boards flat and not harm the blanket when hanging) to choose from in the closet and one was almost the exact same width as the window (roughly 8'). I mounted a heavy moving blanket ( yes I had some of those too.. imagine that). I will listen tonight but I admit, it at least fits like it was made to order inside the window area and the regular curtains (not real thick but they were doing a bit) cover the entire thing as nothing changed. After Steve's suggestions I checked. The window area is dark now totally dark for that "night time" like listening in the day. I am a huge believer of listening with as little distractions visually as well and this allows me to do that anytime of the day now at least. I turn off all fancy displays when I can and always have. I had thought of this before but thanks Steve for the little nudge.

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Reply #142 - 02/08/24 at 08:06:38

Today has been surreal.. I'm jittery still. It was a full on digital, vinyl and 15ips tape day, and It was just an incredible christening with Jon. We listened all day to these beautiful speakers that he built. We discussed what we were hearing and it was an "another world" experience for me. He felt the same.

Charlie

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #143 - 06/10/24 at 09:47:37 The James Burgess preamp just sent things into the stratosphere...
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Reply #144 - 06/28/24 at 00:57:09

Some big sound... thanks for the window tip Steve. I have been listening this way for quite a while now and things are just dialed in like no other and break in is amazing! The photo is from behind the sweet spot listening chair and yet the sound is incredible. For the first time ever this is as close as two people can come to being in the sweet spot at the same time! The rear seat is a bit bass heavy compared to the sweet spot seat when going directly back and forth but it still is incredible!!

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #145 - 07/10/24 at 20:07:05 I'm in a Cobalt kind of mood lately.... cobalt/M4 Magnequest TFA-2004JR parallel feed output transformers, M4 EXO-003 plate chokes, Magnequest filament chokes, Mundorf and Auricap coupling caps, Cardas posts and jacks, and meters for good measure. Sofia Electric Princess 300b mesh plates at 2.5v 🥶
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Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises!
Reply #148 - 07/17/24 at 17:06:47

It is hard to say things to people like "my listening experience last night was so good it was damn near like I ate a bag of magic mushrooms", for me. I think folks assume its hyperbole. It sounds like you guys had one of those sessions... and you can recreate it, it isn't a one time thing... you can just walk back in... flip it into go mode and go! I am stoked for you! You saddled the dragon and are riding it like the main character in a Hi-Fi/Sci-Fi epic story!

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Posts: 522	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #149 - 07/22/24 at 04:55:11
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