Hi people, been around watching but one has had a few ups and downs. The medics did not seen to know or want to know, but things got serious, phisicaly and mentaly. Almost all my music has been via Spotify fot the past few months, however I managed to keep myself sain, just, eventualy taking my health into my own hands. I realised I was loosing weight, trousers falling down, shirts fitting like tents! So as that is no bad thing being a little ovvvvver sizzzze, I changed my eating habits and lifestyle totaly, 190 degree turne around.
Four stone lighter later, I feel so much better in all departments, the medics are taking credit of course but I know 'where and why'. Still counting on the weight factor, I'd love to get to my married weight of 46 years ago . . . with a 32 inch waist, afraid the weight might be possible but the mussle tone has gon South?
Been doing a bit of Youtube watching recently, analog systems costing 100's of 1000's of £!!!!! Madness, absolute madness, they even have a guy in the USA who place bits of very expensive wood 'strategicaly' and says it improves the sound, we got one of those in the UK I think? In any case,there was one mention of glass filles filled with sand and placed near valves to absorbe the radiation between them . . . I slept on it, I can beleive the posibility of valve radiation bit, but sand and this is the guy who invented the 'mass loaded stand that worked' with sand as part of the formula ????
So, curiosity got the better of me, not done any serious tweeks recently, but no glass files or sand to hand. I have a roll of 3mm lead flashing. I made up some 10cm x 10cm lead screens, bent them in an 'S' shape so they stood on end and put them inbetween the valves on my Icon amp.
Not expecting much, switched on Spotify . . . excuse me, next track, and the next. A cleaner sound than I was used to, with a base line that rocked along strongly and musicaly. Get the vinyle out, same affect, clean, tidying up tracks that I new had confused sections. A base line which was now slightly over blown!!! I had to go back a step on my last mod to the TT to regain control of the base.
Out with the beloved Organ music . . . wow!! I have never herad my favourit Organ LP 'growl' like that, or produce a sweetness at the top end I new was there but had never quite extracted. As I said, a small retro change to the platter makeup and the tinyest quater turn adjustments to the tracking weight and all was sweetness and light.
So, its back to my workshop, and turn my bodgged screens into something that look half way decent for visual as well as audio pleasure.
CJSF
Four stone lighter later, I feel so much better in all departments, the medics are taking credit of course but I know 'where and why'. Still counting on the weight factor, I'd love to get to my married weight of 46 years ago . . . with a 32 inch waist, afraid the weight might be possible but the mussle tone has gon South?
Been doing a bit of Youtube watching recently, analog systems costing 100's of 1000's of £!!!!! Madness, absolute madness, they even have a guy in the USA who place bits of very expensive wood 'strategicaly' and says it improves the sound, we got one of those in the UK I think? In any case,there was one mention of glass filles filled with sand and placed near valves to absorbe the radiation between them . . . I slept on it, I can beleive the posibility of valve radiation bit, but sand and this is the guy who invented the 'mass loaded stand that worked' with sand as part of the formula ????
So, curiosity got the better of me, not done any serious tweeks recently, but no glass files or sand to hand. I have a roll of 3mm lead flashing. I made up some 10cm x 10cm lead screens, bent them in an 'S' shape so they stood on end and put them inbetween the valves on my Icon amp.
Not expecting much, switched on Spotify . . . excuse me, next track, and the next. A cleaner sound than I was used to, with a base line that rocked along strongly and musicaly. Get the vinyle out, same affect, clean, tidying up tracks that I new had confused sections. A base line which was now slightly over blown!!! I had to go back a step on my last mod to the TT to regain control of the base.
Out with the beloved Organ music . . . wow!! I have never herad my favourit Organ LP 'growl' like that, or produce a sweetness at the top end I new was there but had never quite extracted. As I said, a small retro change to the platter makeup and the tinyest quater turn adjustments to the tracking weight and all was sweetness and light.
So, its back to my workshop, and turn my bodgged screens into something that look half way decent for visual as well as audio pleasure.
CJSF