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  • Unknown
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,344
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    ^^^^
    Needs bigger meters on the amps...
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,365
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    That rack is epic!

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
    edited October 20
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    Deleted User wrote: »
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    Probably uses it to watch The Wiggles on TV with his kids...
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • treitz3
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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,344
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    That is how an attenuator should be built!
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,756
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    I believe they need thicker cables
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,344
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    Well, its a nice start at least. Always room for mods...
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  • VR3
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    no doubt. I guess he could slide them inside of pool noodles and then wrap the pool noodles in tech flex.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • agingboomer
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    Looks like an early generation Dalek—pre-plunger arm.
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
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    Deleted User wrote: »
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    Somewhere there is a cable company laughing all the way to the bank.
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,497
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    That reminds me; Christmas is coming and I need to start working on the train garden.

    I'm guessing that one of those speaker cables cost more than my entire system.
    Stan

    Main 2ch:
    Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.

    HT:
    Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60

    Other stuff:
    Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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  • VR3
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    Is everything completely reflected sound? Or am I missing something
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 4,395
    edited December 2024
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    The speakers are the Harold Beverage model III speakers which are electrostatic speakers with a wave guide to create an extremely wide dispersion pattern. The designer, Harold Beverage, was an audiophile who was an expert on radar and used his knowledge of radio frequency antennas to model the guide. The original speaker used an output transfomerless tube amplifier connected directly from the output tube's plate to the electrostatic stator, no transformers at all. When a tube amplifier is connected to an electrostatic speaker the output tube's high impedance is stepped down by the output transformer. Then inside the speaker the incoming signal is stepped up to provide the stators high polarizing voltage (2,000 Volts in this case). Kind of like first making tea, then using the tea to make coffee; lots of changes happen. The Beverage amplifier was designed by Roger Modjeski, a true tube expert and was located in the bottom of the speaker. The speakers were intended to be placed on the two side walls facing each other. The stereo image would be suspended in the middle, eerily suspended actually. I remember hearing a Laurindo Alemeida direct-to-disc recording on Crystal Clear records with these speakers and the guitar was right in front of me. No kidding it was there, "know what I mean, Vern?"
    The version in the photo is the model III, I believe which doesn't have the internal amplifier and can be powered externally. If anyone is interested there's a pair for sale in Baltimore:

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/938120197677000?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp:6784a4f4-8baf-4214-8800-1fbc33cd80a6



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  • VR3
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    Very cool, would be a fun demo!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • treitz3
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    I wouldn't mind hearing those, with the internal amp. Interesting design.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,606
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    One of the best systems I’ve ever heard.

    My friend’s Kharma system. Exotic cabling to boot.

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    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • treitz3
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    He definitely has some high dollar cables there. From Schnerzinger, Shunyata and AudioQuest, with what I can recognize. My question is this.....why are they just laying there, apparently just strung up over the back of a chair?

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • treitz3
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    Never mind, I found out why. Apparently, he now has a full loom of Turnbull Audio cables. These were the ones he took out of the system.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,904
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    I’ve had the pleasure of hearing the Turnbull cables in couple of different presentations. They are magical…
    2 Channel Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II, 2 REL T9x, Norma Revo IPA-140B, Norma Revo DAC-2, Lumin U2 Mini, VPI Prime w/SoundSmith Zephyr MIMC, ModWright PH-150, SonoruS ATR10, AudioQuest Niagara 7000 w/Dragon power cable, WAY power cables for all other sources, WAY Silver 3 Ana+ speaker cables, WAY interconnect cables
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  • treitz3
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    I would love to listen to a shootout between Turnbull and the new SRA Takshaka's someday.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • treitz3
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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,606
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    treitz3 wrote: »
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    Tom

    That is insane.
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • newbie308
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    Can someone tell me what the thing on the top right is? It looks like a fancy photo copier...
    Enjoying the journey while never attaining the destination.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,344
    edited December 2024
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    newbie308 wrote: »
    Can someone tell me what the thing on the top right is? It looks like a fancy photo copier...
    Taiko Olympus and IO according to Google Lens search. Some over the top music server stuff from the WBF world.
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    It is basically a standard server put into a very fancy custom case with custom passive cooling and a custom linear power supply. Price is pushing €90k.

    My current server cost me about $1000 to build including 32TB (4x8TB) of SAS drives, plus a spare drive. I use my server for more than just audio though. It hosts my entire movie collection and 20+ years of digital photos.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,344
    edited December 2024
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    billbillw wrote: »
    It is basically a standard server put into a very fancy custom case with custom passive cooling and a custom linear power supply. Price is pushing €90K.
    Some additional reading on that particular model (Olympus) finds they also went to a proprietary digital connection called XDMI (are there any XDMI DACs yet?) and use battery packs to create the low noise power supply setup. It doesn't actually have the linear power supply that the original model had.
    All that said, the Motherboard, CPU, DDR5 ECC Memory and Intel Optane storage that are the heart of this server would cost you less than $3000 from Microcenter...
    A 24 core/48 thread CPU for a music server is so ridiculously over-powered...That is the type of system that is designed for very heavy multi-threaded operations like CAD rendering, video rendering, etc. Its roughly double the CPU capability of my desktop Intel 12th Gen i7 on multi-threaded, but very close on single threaded, which is most audio streaming operations.
    Anyway, they are selling them as fast as they can build them apparently.
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