woensdag 13 april 2011

Audio Rack

Yo Dudes,

As you know I am experimenting with my audio rack.
Last time I had shared with you the controversy article about nordost spikes.
That article brought my attention to the fact that anything you put under your equipment will influence the sound.
I also have changed my mind regarding soft connections. I understood that the energy that is produced within electronics and which is delivered to them through the speaker cables is the most important issue to cope with.
Cope means to make very solid connection so energy can go away. Which materials and how to mineralize the vibrations still stays magic for me, but let’s say that ceramic balls and rvs/alu is the destiny!


Anyway I have build something based on new knowledge and it seems to work. 
The frame of the rack is filled with the quartz sand, that poses a great resonance value.
Feet are equipped with super spikes! (just to start somwhere)
Special, just a spikes, but they allow proper solidity and adjustability.


 

The whole rack stands very, very solid and there is no way of footsteps trilling. The whole thing weights app. 95kg.  Maybe Adrian can count how much tons of weight is on the point of each spike.



The rest stays basically the same as in the past. (Position of the cd player is just for a test reason. I want to determine, if I still audible the spinning of cd, by some quiet moments)

The verdict:
I hear the change! I can´t say what is it exactly though it is different. I got the feeling that I can listening with harder volume before having a bass problem.
Though I think that the stage has lowered itself. 

The next step:
- I try to find out which material is the best to use as an equipment platform (plexi, glass, granit)
- I am trying to find out how much it would be to make base stands as shown above from finite elemente: http://www.finite-elemente.de/en/accessories/cerafamily/cerabase_compact
- The ceramic balls are chosen and can be bought cheap in Poland for1.5E

What you think? 


woensdag 16 februari 2011

iPod - worth to play with it ???

Hoi Guys,

I am looking everywher for iPod line out connection, whether docking satation or preferebly cable to 2*RCA.

What I found was:
- http://www.tweaks4u.com/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=2149


It goes from 30pin to mini RCA socket - adapter mini RCA to 2 * RCA female socket - stereo RCA. It seams quite long and complicated;

http://www.ramelectronics.net/ipod-mp3/ipod-cables/ipod-extreme-series/i-extreme-ipod-docking-to-stereo-rca-cable/prodIFEPDRCA.html


 It is exactly what I am looking for, but UPS from USA would cost 68$ and perhaps customs taxes.

- http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/ibasso-cb05-line-out-dock-cable-for-ipod-iphone-in-white-prodid-2102.html

Do you think, that it would be possible to adapt it. I mean make the cable longer and fix 2 *RCA plugs.
Will it be possible to connect new cable and split probably one "nul"?

maandag 7 februari 2011

Soft-Hard Audio Rack



Hoi Junkies,

As you know, my electronic knowledge is very small; therefore I chose to purchase my electronics.
However, I am quite handy, so I had decided to improve the other side of my stereo.

  
I had promised myself that after cables purchasing, I would stop!!!!! with investing, unless for a long while. 
Stop, because desired simple set is complete and is became much more, than I had ever dreamt of.

But, improving must not always cost a lot, toch?
The whole story has begun with vibrations, which I heard in my electronics while walking around it. Then came Wybe's article about spikes and Adrian's about quartz. I had understood, that even my set of opposite facing spikes system looks nice, but it does not work!



My believing is that spikes, quartz, carpet, bearings  must be combined. 
Thus, let's leave one hard spike connection between 70kg concrete and marble shelf and separate it from the rest of the audio-rack.
In such way I should be able to stop floor vibrations and wave's vibrations getting into my electronics and influence the sound!

 Some sound insulation in the shed?