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Mastergill

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About Mastergill

  • Birthday 11/28/1966

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  • Biography
    Long time audio freak
  • Location
    France
  • Interests
    Music, video games, movies...
  • Headphones
    Sennheiser HD650
  • Headphone Amps
    Manley Neo-Classic 300B preamp
  • Sources
    Studer D731
  • Other Audio Gear
    Manley Neo-Classic SE/PP 300B monoblocks + Harbeth Monitors 30

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  1. I meant, like with some commercial stands i wanted to have the speakers decoupled from the top with spikes. There's spikes under the speakers with the point up, it will leave some marks under the speakers but that's not a problem for me. I don't think you can beat concrete or granit as a resonance-free material. Polished granit would be very nice but i don't want to know the price. Concrete is very easy to work with, you can mold it in any shape you want and it's dirt-cheap.
  2. Yeah, concrete makes excellent speakers stands. I suggest that you screw on top a thick aluminium plate to have a perfect plane surface for your speakers and like i've done you can insert spikes into that plate (point up). You need a good paint over the concrete, because it may leave dust. I call that my best and cheapest tweak ever! The improvement on the soundstage was spooky with deep controled bass. There's no energy loss into the ground, the stand can't vibrate.
  3. Used Manley Stingray? Latest version, around $1700.
  4. Mastergill

    Markl Mods

    The prob with dudes like markl is that these guys get hired for their writing skills, deep knowledge and real experience are secondary. It's like with some journalists, when you know your stuff, you can laugh at the crap and approximation these guys can put on the paper.
  5. Ah yes, my wicked mind only got the "built by semi-skilled labor" Seriously, this could be an interesting piece, i would like to hear it. At these price the Manley "phantom" 300B preamp could be a nice competitor!
  6. Still better looking than the "standard" black box with the ugly pillars IMO. But for the price they pay for this stuff i would expect to see some 845 or other DHT tubes...
  7. It seems this burn in crap propaganda has been mostly spread by newbies based forum like Head-Fi. There's very little talk about burn in on forum like Audio Asylum. I guess it helps newbs to feel part of a community, people who know their stuff...etc. The reality is when you buy a new piece, if it's a good upgrade from what you previously had, you should be thrilled right from the start and not have to wait 300 hours to enjoy your stuff. Putting a new phone in a drawer playing music for one week before listening to it is absolutely nuts IMO. In fact the most dramatic change i've heard with burn in it's with big power tubes. Some tubes can sound lean, dry and sterile the first hours of use and then after 20 to 50 hours they are really blooming into something very nice.
  8. Never liked this review, too much intellectual masturbation bullshit from a dude who seems to have a very inflated opinion of himself.
  9. I try to buy most of my CDs from Japan, they are the best IMO, not because of different mastering but 'cuz they have the best pressing plants. Technically (most of) their CDs are flawless, which can explain the slightly better sound they may have but i've never done serious comparisons.
  10. The ground should be wired to pin 1. Sometimes you can see pin 3 shorted to pin 1 like with the Cardas XLR->RCA adapters but it's better to leave pin 3 alone (floating), less chance of hum...
  11. Mastergill

    taboo

    Yes and yes. Problem is most headphone enthusiasts are new to the audio hobby and make easy prey for unscrupulous amateur amp builder. It's much easier to start with speakers as there's a lot of good established company with decades of experience and feedback from experienced users too.
  12. Mastergill

    taboo

    Haaaaa Fuck. Thanks to remind me to not waste my time on this internet shit.
  13. Mastergill

    taboo

    Of course i may be wrong and i don't know the man personally, but IMO it seems very childish to forbid the talk about other headphone or audio related sites just because you don't like some dudes or the atmosphere of the place. If i have something against Jude, it's just that don't like the way HF has turned, with ads and sponsors everywhere, when i was one of the first to contribute in the hope to keep the site away from this crap. According to some guys who know much better than me about internet stuff, he must make at least $10K per month now, so i think this has turned into something commercial no? The "boycott", i've already made it personnally, and it was not so difficult seeing the amount of crap that is posted and the invasion of Trolls that YOU mods over there have done nothing against. Also technically HF is a nightmare, the site is constantly half broken LOL.
  14. Mastergill

    taboo

    When i discovered that baby Jude does not allow reference to this site, this really, really pissed me off. It just shows that HF has definitively turned into a business site where traffic is much more important than intelligent and knowledgable contributions. I think you guys and gals should boycott HF. Jude doesn't deserve the relative success he has with HF. He should not forget that is membership that make a forum successful and interesting. And i just fucking hate when the administrator doesn't contribute to his forum...guess he's too much busy counting his dollars.
  15. Holy crap, i can't believe some dudes are going through so many gears in a so short time. Fucking neurotics, it's about the music, don't forget. Okay, in 2007 i bought the last piece of my puzzle, a pair of Harbeth Monitors 30 and i'm finally back to speakers with a sound that is beyond the usual hifi stuff, absolute "Laboratory Grade Reference Sound" if that make sense. You need to wear brown trousers, like the old David Manley said once. In 2008, i won't spend a lot in audio, just tweaking with a few Hifi-tuning fuses, trying KR 300B in the preamp, stuff like that... Oh, and i forget, Happy New Fucking Year you fucking newbies.
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