http://www.silentpcreview.com/Another_T ... born_TD160

The Thorens TD160 is a poor man's Linn, and still amazingly popular as the vinyl revival continues. This is the story of a 160 reborn, with many components "borrowed" from the Linn.

The ASUS Podcast is live. All the questions in this thread tackled, iirc. Mostly your questions, Steve. 8) Q&A session 21:57~ 24:44 Fan controls on H170/B150 series vs Z170 24:44~27:30 ASUS MB power consumption 27:30~32:07 DPC latency 32:07~40:40 Inductor noise aka coil whine from GPUs, PSUs, and MB...

Those, are beauties. I was reading an article just recently about how there's an increasing market for narrower baffle designs (and in turn smaller drivers), partly driven by an aesthetic choice for typical home use, known to many as 'the wife factor'. Great to see some bigger woofers in there - wh...

Lovely turntable and restoration MikeC should have figured you were into hi-fi, it all makes sense now. :wink: It was never a secret. :o The motor electronics PCB looked OK, no leaky caps, but they're 40+ years old. As the saying goes: They don't make them like they used to. Yes, but any table show...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Thorens_T ... y_Restored

The Thorens TD125 is a vintage classic still in demand among vinyl record enthusiasts today. This is the story of one restoration of a 40+ year old turntable, with an SME 3009 II tonearm.

That's some beautiful work Mike. You should do a piece giving readers a little tour of your whole audio setup. I think people would find that interesting. Where'd you source that enclosure for the 8x100W? I'm gathering parts for an amp build of my own, and I like the looks of that. Hey Russ, thanks...

Hey Mike, if you ever redo the baltic birch plinth, when laminating the layers, turn each layer perpendicular to each other. This way, you can avoid the dreaded double thickness layer at the glue joint. "dreaded"?? :?: :!: :lol: I considered this but cutting up the plywood sheet was much simpler & ...

RoyJohnson wrote:LostHighway

The woofer for your Continuum 1.5 speakers is now available again!...

Roy Johnson
Designer
Green Mountain Audio

Interesting you found LH's post here so fast! This section didn't exist at SPCR a week or so ago.

Mike, I've never actually heard the Hypex UcD series of amps, but have read plenty of good things. You're probably already aware of this, but their "nCore" line gets all the publicity now. I've heard those are awesome (again, only hearsay), but they are significantly more expensive, especially if y...

Hey Mike, If you want more power in a class-D amp, check out those based on IRS2092. There are lots of vendors selling IRS2092-based PCBs, including Sure Electronics. The "LD15R" modules by "LJM" have a good reputation over on diyaudio.com (and the designer himself hangs out there too). ConnexElect...

LostHighway wrote:One minor correction with regard to Harmon Kardon, the companion preamp to the Citation Twelve was the Citation Eleven not the Seventeen...

Silly typo -- fixed.

added HK770 part.

Looks clean and gorgeous so far. :) I did play around with the notion of building an amp a couple years back, but as I'd need optical in and 5.1 DTS/Dolby decoding.... that can't be done in a clean DIY fashion. Actually, integrating an appropriate sound card into the enclosure which holds the amps ...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Two_Amp_Projects_8x100W_DIY_H/K_770_Restoration This is a show-and-tell about two amplifiers I worked on in the past year. One is a DIY custom assembly of class-D amp modules and an SMPS PSU into an 8-channel power amp in a single chassis. The other is the restoration o...

Thanks for that link, HammerSandwich -- http://kimmosaunisto.net/CardSub/CARDSUB.html I've read through much of the linkwitz site but never hit this link before. kimmosaunisto's "Variable volume resistance enclosure" looks like a pretty good & relatively simple way to get cardioid bass response! Hmm...

Cool article! I myself would love to see more audio articles and reviews! As a recording musician silent PC's and audio do go hand in hand! I am also currently in the process of building a home hifi/htpc setup using a PC as the "source". Perhaps an article with how best build an audiophile pc would...

I've measured my Orions many times, and with the standard xover/eq, they go down pretty low into the bass. Here's a graph: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/download/file.php?id=1062&mode=view The top more jagged curve is before room compensation software. Note each vertical step represents 5 dB....

Aside from my full-blown Orion - JRiver system, I also have a system dedicated almost entirely to video on a TV room (converted bedroom, 11x12'): * 59" Samsung plasma (energy hog keeps room warm in winter), * Anthem MXR500 receiver, NUC running Kodi (formerly XBMC), * Telus ADSL box (hardly used, bu...

You are one of the few audiophiles who is equipped to try this. Just borrow absorbers from the chamber & pile them up behind the Orions. Is your wife planning any trips out of town? :D :lol: :lol: She'd kill me & lever leave me alone in the house again! (Or leave me alone in the house for good. :sh...

Even though I like restoring & building TTs, I just don't listen to LPs enough to make it worthwhile to invest lots of $ in cartridges. I've had Supex 900, Linn Akasa etc in the past, and I'd consider a naked Denon 103R glued to an aluminum L-shaped piece that I think I could make easily enough... b...

It does seem that a lot of recent speaker designs attempt to improve the direct/reflected ratio. What's really interesting here is how different the implementations are. Dipole (e.g., Linkwitz, Nao), waveguide (Geddes, JBL), cardioid (Kii) sure look different! I'd really enjoy being able to compare...

I'm with total agreement with you on the Audiomods tonearm - I built mine in May. I'd been following Jeff's work when it was still just a DIY project and got to see the evolution to the current Series 5 arms. This is one of the best bang-for-your-buck components in audio and will embarrass many pri...

When I see discussions of high end audio equipment, I can't help but be reminded of the commentary from Ethan Winer and Co with regards to subjective A/B test of related equipment, and the information bias of human perception when it comes to audio 'preferences'. The part at the beginning about the...

ojg wrote:Very nice writeup about the Orion! I like your design choices like the elongated curves and the black baffle.

Just one error, the midrange driver is from SEAS, specifically the W22EX001, not Scan-Speak.

Of course you're right -- the mid driver is a SEAS W22EX001.

Are you doing RIAA EQ on the PC or digitizing after analog EQ? I use a Linn Kairn preamp which has both MM and MC inputs w/ RIAA, of course. It's an excellent preamp. Main preamp with volume at ~70% out to Tascam UH7000, connected to PC via USB. Not the most elegant solution. Have to look into runn...

Generally, the accepted practice if choosing to use a highly regulated linear PSU for an audio server is to place it outboard of the case. The question is why choose a linear PSU? Switching PSUs have been used in many high end components for years -- nay, decades. The famous Hypex guys offers SMPS ...

There were discussions in the past about Live End Dead End rooms -- in which one end of the room is fully padded to absorb as much acoustic energy as possible -- and the rest of the room is live. Some favored using speakers on the live end, others on the dead end, and some advocated either, dependin...

THAT's the project I'm interested in! Strikes me as more power than I'd ever need, but headroom for EQ makes sense with active crossovers, etc. Speaking of Hypex, those new Kii speakers sure look interesting. Had not been aware of those speakers, but yea, they do sound fascinating.... http://kiiaud...

None of this is directed at you Mike and I don't think we really disagree all that much. :lol: :lol: I used to demonstrate the superiority of Naim amps by swapping in another amp in a Linn/Naim system, which usually lead to a drop in subjective sound quality most people could hear. But here's where...