Moving house and the room

[Ant]

Should be moving soon.

I am still not counting chickens, touching wood and tipping my hat to magpies, but things appear to be in the final stretch. It has been a huge and stressful slog to get to this stage, with prior disappointments being very taxing on the ole blood pressure

It will cost us a small fortune, knowing what the current owners paid in 1983 makes me a little sick, but thats just how it is

I have sat down this morning for the first time in months and stuck a record on downstairs. Its reminded me that i miss doing so quite a bit, but circumstsnces are such that its a rare occurrence with work, emmas work and the kids, minus one as shes gone to uni, but that hasnt made much difference, other than the electric bill being lower.....

The new place has a living room that is about the same length, not so deep, and higher ceilings. And a bay window.

It has an archway into the dining room which is smaller than the open plan opening here, the dining room is twice the size as this place, and again a higher ceiling.

The acoustics are rather different you can hear it straight away when you talk in there

Im hoping against hope that this system will work in there and that i can continue with the stupid fanes, which may be too big.

I have just thought to consider this, hopefully i dont have to bin off the fanes and amps for something else. I have got rays mission 773s here, but emma called them 'farty little things that sound farty' whatever that means, laughed at the 5" drivers which are smaller than the whizzer on the fanes, and amazingly prefers the fanes. I also have some little mission standmounts. The f5 doesnt like either of them very much, id need more gain, an active pre at least to make it viable with something of that ilk.

And the physical space restrictions and acoustics might meant the fanes are awful

Oh wailey wailey. I suppose we shall have to see. Might be fine, might have to start spending. I dont want to..

The record is 'struttin' by dr strutt btw...

[Mike H]

Best of luck Ant!

[Paul Barker]

What he said.

When youve moved text me address please?

Calm down its never worth getting high blood pressure. Easier said than done.

Google Box Breathing. Not that I have so that may not get you anywhere. My sister teachis tai chi and qi gong and goes to Worling Dervish shows. So she rings me on wotsap video call and coaches me.

Box breating is a long duration thing to relax you but its sublime relaxation when you finally get calmed down from youre hectic life.

The key of the whole principle is the nitric oxide production by in or with through you're sinuses. Involves therefore shutting youre trap and nose breating. The westerner who found nitric oxide got a nobel prise for it. My Sister said the worling dervish been doing it for many hundreds of years. My niece teaches yoga and calls it bea breathing or something like that.

In my situation its life saving or I die.

[Paul Barker]

I hope you can still do youte excellent chassis building. Although you have bigger fish to fry for a while. If there is a bus stop close by I can get there. Is it still near youre Dad’s? You are a credit to youre Dad!

[Ant]

Well we have finally moved, still got some stuff to sort out with the old place, but the end is in sight. Upshot is, the fanes will have to go. And probably the f5 and b1, they dont have the gain for the missions. Which are about as big as i can go. Bit of a shame, but it is what it is.

So, the plan is to get a mission 778x amp. That will allow the use of the 773s and will cut out a load of boxes. The thing has a phono stage in it so thats one down, a dac so thats 2 down, doesnt need a pre so thats 3 down, has a headphone socket so thats 4 down.
I will need to cut down on turntables too. I think i'll keep the jbe, the oracle and the jvc y5 for emma, the rest ill sell.

So, there will be a load of tts, the amps, the fane drivers, the cole lcr phono stage, maybe the myryad headphone amp and one of the wiim minis, we'll see. Have to pay for the proposed mission amp somehow

[Ali Tait]

Ant, try a Neurochrome amp, this one would suit-

https://neurochrome.com/products/modulus-86-stereo-kit

Check the specs out, pretty much as good as it gets. Mine killed stone dead any further desire to try other amps. I had an 86 with linear power supply in a dac size case so doesn't have to take up much room.

[Nick]

Ant, try a Neurochrome amp, this one would suit-

https://neurochrome.com/products/modulus-86-stereo-kit

Check the specs out, pretty much as good as it gets. Mine killed stone dead any further desire to try other amps. I had an 86 with linear power supply in a dac size case so doesn't have to take up much room.

Yep, I would agree with that. Though TBH, the Mission 778x looks like an attempt to go against Wiim sort of things but with a AB instead of a class D amp.

Though a Wiim + A modulus-86 would do all of the above, though the 778x has a phono stage as well.

[Ray P]

So, there will be a load of tts,

Ant, depending on what and how much, I have a friend looking to get a decent system for analogue and digital so there could be some interest in a turntable.

[Paul Barker]

Good news

[Ant]

Cobbled together something to listen to today.
Was driving me barmy not having anything to listen to
Found a samson servo 260 amp that im sure i sold, but apparently not, thats small enough to be useful but has some poke behind it and connected it to the mission 773s and a wiim mini.

Doesnt do anything wrong, but its sounds flat as a fart. No real dynamics to speak of. On the plus side there dont seem to be any particular room issues, there is a bit of a honk coming from the bay window but its not bad.

Least ive got something at least half reasonable.

[simon]

I tried my old Fostex horns in the large bay window at my old house once - it was awful, didn't last there long.

[Ant]

Anyone sat in front of any tdl rtl 2 transmission lines? Seen some that piqued my interest but ive never heard any.

Once warmed up abit the missions stopped sounding quite so flat but i am barely resisting the temptation to start faffing about

[Ray P]

Anyone sat in front of any tdl rtl 2 transmission lines?

I listened to a pair in the distant past and they sounded pretty good in that room, good enough to register in my memories. YMMV, of course.

[Ali Tait]

I think the Studio RTL's are generally considered the ones to go for.

[vinylnvalves]

I remember them, from the early 1990’s, - friend had them with creek amp, good with rock music, my gales at the time were better. For transmission line speakers, the IPL ones IMHO are better than the TDL ones, as they use more modern drivers, and in the kit form are reasonably priced second hand.