Happy Bday Donald! I have a regular old guys golf group of which I’m the youngster at 64. Tomorrow we’re celebrating with a golf day for the oldest of the group. He turns 97 Weds.! He still walks 9 holes with an oxygen pack on his back while playing. Amazing guy…
Happy Belated Birthday, Mr D!
Keep on Truckin’
Happy Birthday Donald!
Thanks guys! My best birthday gift to myself was shooting 82 on a nice golf course, and I do not remember when I had a better round last time, not in this year for sure. I am too young to try to shoot my age. Hopefully it will happen in the coming years. 
My latest upgrade is to cable tied the longer FRR cables and hanged them on the cable hooks:
No, I did not hear any SQ difference. But it definitely looks neater.
Congrats on the score. The back of my rack looks like a nightmare. I have to find a way to make my cables less obvious from the front of the rack.
I haven’t done it yet but I planned it out on one shelf by cutting black foam core to shape and placing behind the gear with a few cable cutout holes and it’s so light and I had it totally reversible by using Blu-Tack to adhere it to the rack posts. My wall is a kinda British Racing Green so the cables a a bit hard to see anyway and because I’m a lazy sod I never finished. It looked very convincing and it’s easy to cut with utility knife etc. You can also spray it with color matching rattle cans they custom mix now. But see this is why can now look at all those beautiful life giving cables and not do any of this Clampett engineering.
I thought about that but all of my gear is Class A and it all needs as much ventilation as possible.
My best solution so far (far from perfect) is to put black sound panels against the wall behind to reduce the contrast of the cables against the light colored wall.
you could use matboard and it comes in bigger sizes than you think and attach that to the wall with Blu-Tack. Find a real framing supply place and you can see sizes and many, many colors. You get a framer to frame the matboard with no glass too and if you use a sawtooth hanger you can get close to the wall. Funny just moments ago I measured a tube amp built on steel plate and after an hour of around idling it hit 120f at about 6’ away. Get a group non-audio over and talk to them first about cable prices and then about vintage guitar prices. They’ll leave as fast as they can to get the lake home with a $6800 set of clubs in their trunk. Send them pics of your cables hanging out all over warming in Class A with a $150 album on and a box with sticking out that jiggles for many thousands. It’s nearly impossible to have tidy cables it will help when they have the new wireless electricity!
Just worth a mention that if you crave tubes in your upgrade plans, there is one of the coolest tube (monoblock) amps ever made imo for sale on USAM, The Cary V12.
I have one. Magnificent.
I can’t remember seeing any for sale. People don’t often let them go.
For those of you who have a Matrix SI 1 in their system, which ethernet cable are you using between the Matrix and the streamer? Thinking of purchasing the SI 1!
I am using the Matrix Audio Isolator together with their SS1-PRO switch. All cabling is the Audioquest Vodka.
Thanks for the replies!
AQ Cinnamon 1 meter, couldn’t tell if it helped versus standard Cat6, 3 meter AQ Pearl to SI-1. I like the SI-1
Nice cable, I am using one from router to Muon Pro.
The new Stealth”?