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mhardy6647 wrote: »On the bright side, Ken Kantor has a pretty active presence at Flikr (not too much hifi,
I have 2 pairs of NHT's he designed. VT2's and VT3's. Wonder what happened to him on AK. Hasn't been around in a long time.
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Ken, are those custom shelves for the vinyl?
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The salmon colored shelves were built when I lived in Baltimore. The black ones are from Ikea, we added metal feet and a masonite back. Here are some early photos when we first moved here showing the transplant shelves after we repainted them.
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My wife photoshopped a representation of what everything might look like. We ended needing two more of the Ikea shelves to fit the records. Plus several other record shelves that we also brought from Baltimore. -
These photos show how the record storage finally turned out, the area behind the listening area are six shorter record cabinets.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »On the bright side, Ken Kantor has a pretty active presence at Flikr (not too much hifi,
I have 2 pairs of NHT's he designed. VT2's and VT3's. Wonder what happened to him on AK. Hasn't been around in a long time.
As so often (and so unfortunately) seems to happen to real experts when they show up on enthusiast forums, he got picked at by some folks who didn't agree with/accept certain of his positions, so he moved along. Danged shame, IMO. He is a fine fellow based on my interactions with him (which have mostly concerned photography, amusingly enough).
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Very classy presentation! 🤩KennethSwauger wrote: »These photos show how the record storage finally turned out, the area behind the listening area are six shorter record cabinets.
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Yay.
We've been seeing this one twice a day for three or four days now. Don't like seein' 'em in the daytime. They're not supposed to be out in the daytime... but this one does not seem to be sick (i.e., rabid -- sheesh, did I really type rabbit, or did Autocorrect see me comin'?
). Seems to be feeding; maybe supporting a brood?
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as seen at:
https://www.audioasylum.com/members/mgeneral/messages/36/363111.html
oopsie.
On the bright side, this might be the deal that @nooshinjohn's lookin' for!
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Ouch!
Ken, is your listening area on a slab in the new digs?
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KennethSwauger wrote: »These photos show how the record storage finally turned out, the area behind the listening area are six shorter record cabinets.
Very nice room!
Is it just an optical illusion, or does the ceiling slope up towards the speakers?
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Thanks, the ceilings are all the same height.
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Ken, the room looks great, however I think you might need a few more records.
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KennethSwauger wrote: »
Ken,
You and your wife have done a great design and decorating job on that "audio" space.
I meant to ask you this when I first saw the Shoji screens at the end of the room. Is that an end wall the screens are covering? And what is behind regarding the lighting?
Did the Ikea shelves come with the legs or did you put metal legs on the Ikea shelves?
You mentioned Baltimore; what city/state do you live now, if I may ask?
Glad you remain a dedicated member of this forum!
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KennethSwauger wrote: »These photos show how the record storage finally turned out, the area behind the listening area are six shorter record cabinets.
Geez that's quite the collection Ken!
Had the pleasure of listening to a reel-to-reel demo for the first time two years ago. (I know, I'm such a millennial) never really experienced music like that before.
EDIT: I know the collection is a vinyl collection. I just wanted to comment on his reel-to-reel as well. Editing before all you audiophiles pounce on me.*Polk employee; formerly known as CassidyStains and Meganpolkaudio
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"I meant to ask you this when I first saw the Shoji screens at the end of the room. Is that an end wall the screens are covering? And what is behind regarding the lighting?"
Hi Harry,
The previous owner maintained an office in the basement and built the screens as part of the design. There are four flood lamps, two on each side, behind it attached to a rheostat. There is a 2' space to a solid wall behind with a pocket door to another room. In the between space are shelves on either side, I keep some spare audio components and a complete collection of Audio Amateur and Glass Audio magazines. On the other side of the pocket door I have the air compressor and record cleaning stuff set up and model train.
"Did the Ikea shelves come with the legs or did you put metal legs on the Ikea shelves?"
We sourced some nice metal legs from Amazon.
"You mentioned Baltimore; what city/state do you live now, if I may ask?"
We moved to Hagerstown, MD. and really like the town and people. I'm originally from Cumberland, MD. (about an hour west) and at the time my mother was still there. We picked it because it was partway between there and Baltimore and have found it to be very agreeable. My wife is active in the local art museum and there are some really good restaurants (hopefully soon to be reopened).
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Depending on the size of the reels, some of those could very well be reels of hours and hours of music. There is something magic in some of those long lengths of tape and good quality tape can last a very very long time.
A true millennial would have asked how many MP3's he had
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KennethSwauger wrote: »
I knew he was holding out....
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