audio-talk

I was never a fan of the DV20X series, much preferring the 17D models which worked well in the LP12-Ittok. With Ela's though, the hf would take fillings out I fear. Dynavector's have dramatically increased in price over the last fifteen years (all but doubled I fear), so out of their league in my bo...

Dave the bass wrote:

Mudshark wrote: Spend an age trying to fix em......

Me too...cos I'm also a technician and get paid to repair stuff for a living!

Dave, what kinds of 'stuff' do you fix?

My intended "nominees" are a pair of walnut Naim IBLs which it's a doddle to try the X/O mod with. Not so sure about doping given they have no dustcaps. I already took the foam out (but left a bit of long hair wool). Internals already have some steel plate.They are great with some music a...

Out of interest, which MC2s are they? The earlier ones had a single port in the rear Single rear port. Main mod will be to replace the titanium dome tweeter with a Linaeum type mounted on top. To hell with measurements just for a minute. The Visaton tweeter was new to me until a couple of years ago...

As I said before, I have a pair of Musical Fidelity MC-2 ported speakers. One day I'm going to replace the tweeters, and do some mods to the box, Doc mods perhaps. So I will continue with this thread as an interested party, mainly in the hope of learning something new. The best thing for those is t...

Philip, I can't find the exact PM or post, but you did admit some time ago to deliberately baiting him/winding him up earlier on here and sometimes I thought you were doing the same on TAS - this is from me, nobody else is pulling any of my frayed strings!!!!!!! The one thing other than audio matter...

I may be alone here, but once you've heard an unfettered full range driver or speakers such as described here, it's damned difficult to go back to the traditional 'controlled response box with complex crossover and drivers trying to out-phase each other all over the shop...' The audible intrusion of...

The vibe with this is to remove the need for an 'electrical' crossover, NOT to improve a badly behaved driver. So far, these mods have worked retrospectively with the likes of JPW and other smaller models with basically well behaved smaller drivers. No reason why similar couldn't be done to larger b...

I'd suggest the main people here interested in this kind of speaker building would have researched the drivers thoroughly first - and not all modern drivers have the severe ringing as accurately described above, although I can think of a popular 'Top End' metal cone model (with copper coloured pole ...

So Jammy polluting the thread is OK then, It's not as if he has ever tried Doc mods on speakers. :wink: Well Philip, may I comment myself please - I should add that I have NOTHING WHATEVER to do with NVA's speakers but would like to offer comments on the mods discussed. Comments below are not inten...

Bit late, but what part of the Orwell do you hail from, if at all?

I was going to suggest doing something from underneath the deck.. The Micro' feet may work better supporting something heavier if memory serves, so the idea of tightly coupling the deck to slate and then maybe putting the slate on the feet may be a possibility? Alternatively, can the intire motor un...

A late reply, but an AT440MLa may be worth a punt now the £ is climbing back a tad...

Does the Rega have the fixed motor or the suspended one? if the latter, I'd do this before thinking of a different cartridge, as the speed stability is very much better..

Hi again Mr K, The only old valvey amp at your money I can think of is the Rogers Cadet III, which is the spiritual forerunner of the mk1 Naim Nait. It's soft and sweet and holds its value at least... The WD amps are so well loved and later, so easily tweakable, I'd really try to hang out for one of...

Ello 'Amish

How's the house now you've been in a short while?