Post your turntable setup...can't get enough of those spinners!

Room treatment!! Haha it's just a stick my wife dragged out of central park one day cause she liked it LOL

 

Actually, how does the room sound, now?

 

Good question Willy! I'm still playing with speaker positioning a bit, at least as a first pass. It was a welcome change to bring the couch forward away from the back wall, and the heavy curtains in front of that large window behind the rack too. It'll be tricky to treat the room cause it's the living room and my wife might have an objection or two if I were to attempt something extreme haha! Anyway, I'm amazed at imaging on these 2-way speakers, the Duke 2s sound very musical to me. Have to play with tubes in the preamp and phono stage at some point too. You're welcome to come help me out any time

 

Sure, tell me when you are free. I'll bring up the tools. Do you have floor coverings for the wood between your speakers and your seats?

 

Yeah there's a thick carpet over a big chunk of floor. Let's PM about it, since I'll be out of town a bit the next 2 weeks but then free as a something something.

 

How does it affect the sound?

 

It doesn't

 

Probably the wrong thread, but I'd love a breakdown of your chain/gear. Looks awesome, and familiar at the same time...

 

Sure no problem! On the vinyl side the source is a VPI classic 3, phono is a Zesto Andros 1.2, preamp is a EAR 868, amp is a EAR 890, and speakers are Marten Duke 2. Digital is Yggdrasil fed via a lynx e22 thunderbolt enclosure, and a Mjolnir 2. Not pictured is the SDS that feeds the VPI and headphones, which are usually CodeX or Utopia (though I'll probably sell one if I can convince myself to do it

Edit: Swapping out the Lynx for an Aries to see how that flies.

 

No going back now, I think I've properly joined the vinyl club...

 

Nice, I got one of those a few weeks ago.

 

I saw online that a bloke had stuck some Ikea Capita feet on his Kallax so I thought I'd do the same. I also figured it would help to have something to push the records back against, so I screwed a couple of batons on the back. Works a treat...

 

Very, very clean, you've done a nice job of hiding all the cables/wires.

 

Where did you get the Batons? I also have these feet on my Kallax setup.

 

How do you get those feet in the US ikeas?

Edit: thanks @Daveheart I failed in my search cause I'm a dummy, thought it was for fancy Europeans only.

 

Those feet transform the Kallax into a real piece of furniture-the leveling feature is a huge bonus for use as a tt stand.

 

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=capita
I'm not sure that I've seen them in the stores Brencho, but they'll ship if you order them online.

 

I picked the batons up at a diy store over here called B&Q. I imagine any similar store in the US would sell the same kind of thing. I simply cut them to size and screwed them in place. I padded out the central part of the batons (where the middle screw on each baton is) with some folded cardboard as that part of the KALLAX is slightly recessed compared with the sides.

Incidentally, Capita feet are I think part of their kitchen range. Note that there are two sizes... these are the shorter ones. The bonus with them is that they are height adjustable so you can level the unit.... particularly useful if you put a turntable on top like I have

 

I just got a SL1200 limited UK edition Gold!
hebergeur dimage

 

Here is a quick teaser of the new rack, some of you may have already seen the completed project elsewhere, but I don't want to fully unveil it here until the new amp arrives this week. Plenty of room for expansion, with a pretty spacious top for what ever gear is out at the time and the cleaning tools.



It was a pretty rewarding experience to sketch up ideas and pass them off to an excellent craftsman and see this come to fruition from scratch.