Your Next Upgrade? (Part 2)

Just order a Dragon PC to go with the PZ - they should both arrive about the same time.

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Now youā€™re talkingšŸ„ƒ

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Nope. All the cool people are using Gryphon Vantas.

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Fair enough - Iā€™m gonna start with a Dragon and go from there.

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And what about your new room project outside the house? How Iā€™d like to follow your step by step building process along that way.

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Itā€™s a figment of my imagination. I thinking a former church now. All the serious players are going that route.

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Oh I was forgetting the Big Competition, definitely thatā€™s the way unless you build it in your garden from scratch (than you celebrate some rituals for a while before converting it in your new audio room). Yours should be higher and larger to win, of course.
Think about a pipe organ to test bass response!!!

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My HRS M3X2 Isolatin Base finially came after 2 months. They said it took extra time to have it anodized aluminum. Iā€™m welling to bet anodizing it black would take just as long. Anyway, I got it set up replacing the Symposium Ultra platform. The Symposium is now supporting my MK2 DAC. A double whammy benefit in isolation support. I compared the 2 platforms with the turntable and good as the Symposium is, the HRS does go a step further in sounding more rich, bold and even higher degree of papability. That sucker is pretty heavy too about 50 lbs. It aso comes with the feet included for a total price of $3k.

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Nice setup and great contrast! It is quite amazing what a good rack can improve the sound too.

Congratulations!

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Thank you Donald! The MK2 also improved significantly with the Symposium support.
Hereā€™s more pictures of both.

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Anyone?

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They look like desktop computers.

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Iā€™ve seen those up close and I couldnā€™t live with them.

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Absolutely!

I would use them in my super wamperdyne HTE set up and stand my full-size model of Iron Man nearby. :slight_smile:

Seriously though, they have a good reputation so I could get over the ā€œgamer computerā€ resemblance.

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Have been listening to PST + DS Mk2 and throw pretty much all kinds of disc to them, CDs, XRCDs, Super HQ CDs, SACDs, CD-Rs, etc, all performed flawlessly except this one, somehow the playback has a layer of noise on top of music, maybe because it is not a quality re-release; Too bad this is one of my all time favorite.

I found the original BELL release from Discogs and got one from Germany. It didnā€™t come with back sheet but fortunately the media and booklet are in decent shape. PST + DS Mk2 has no problem playing back this one, I am glad it worked out.



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I donā€™t have any of the CDs or SACDs, but I just heard this vinyl version of Ray Brown & L.Almeida and it has the most realistic portrayal of the double bass I have ever heard from any other recording period! So much substance and with a growl you really feel in your guts right there in my room! A truly remarkable recording!
My just upgraded HRS platform may have a little to do with it, every thing I play sounds so much more real!

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Vinyl rules my system. No doubt about that.
Heavily DSPed of course. I am not a cave person.
(Typed in his cave)

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CDST
Pro-Ject DS2T CD transport. Suits my purpose and seems like good value for money.
Not an ā€œupgradeā€ of anything but I wanted a transport for CDs that still clutter my closet.
It seems to work well and sounds fine thanks to my hot rodded DSD 1.

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Today my new Magneplanar 2.7i were delivered and set up. Cold out of the box they sound better than my 14 year old 1.7, except the top end is a bit ragged. Nothing a few hundred hours cannot fix. Also inserted Synergistic Orange fuses for bass and Purples for low/mid.

Called SR to make sure it is okay to use 2 different iterations. They said no problem. These things cost too much to throw away. Due to room layout, I will only have them 37" from front wall.

At end of September, I will start fussing with position and integration of 2 RELs. After that I will refocus on room acoustics (and interconnects). For now, I am delighted.

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Congrats on the Maggies!!! They are fun speakers, as you already know.

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