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Happy B-Day mate

Vibration isolation is a tricky thing. It all depends in what you want to accomplish. It's not the same trying to absorb and drain the vibration generated at a device to have it vibrating less, than to isolate a device from the environment, condemning it to keep its own vibrations into it. For turntables I prefer a mixed thing. To drain the vibrations produced by the motor and the own platter spinning, I like high mass TTs with external separated motor, placed on a surface which can take both devices vibrations but it's isolated from the environment by some rubber, sorbotane or the like. On a 1210 the first goal is difficult to achieve for being direct drive, however spiking the table on a high mass surface, could help to drain the table's vibration somewhat, then isolating that platform from the environment using absorbing feet, rubber or whatever alike, could help. Hence your idea could work quite well.

Happy birthday Vicki. Indeed

LOL Not very sure. I know many graduated and doctorate people who are true morons, and also very wise and clever undergraduate people. As I see it for the little knowledge I have of yourself, you have great human features that I'd like finding in a co-worker or subordinate. Much more in a boss. But probably that didn't appear on the interview and wasn't their main interest. Hence I still think they're morons hehehehe

Bunch of morons, they don't deserve you. I'm sorry you didn't get the job, but I'm sure you'll get more offers. Better luck next time mate

Not only for the quality of the write up, but also for not trying to convince us that every single room had wonderful sound. Music used for audio evaluation is very important. If you don't manage to get a girl singing with just an upright bass and guitar sounding right,then forget about getting some "serious" music being listenable. I agree with Asr's assertion that the music "audio people" use to show their systems become tiring and mostly worthless for any serious evaluation. However sometimes it can be useful for some sound-wise purposes.

Happy Bday Pabbi

Too true. At Quad they even did worse when the chinese holding got the company and started to produce the 2805. A friend of mine purchased a pair, needed a replacement two days later for one speaker going mute. The replacement sounded wrong, but luckily he had the first pair at home yet. He took both pairs apart and managed to build a right sounding pair. The inner construction is pure crap. Parts, soldering... the problem with the second pair was a wrong value cap And that into a 6K euros pair of speakers. Looks like nobody is interested in doing things right these days, it's all for the profit.

That's the spirit Good luck mate, I hope you can overcome this situation quickly. So you need to dismantle the Ω2 MkII to get those ports covered and to have a righter bass. Didn't they listen to the cans before leaving that piece with the holes open?

Looks interesting. I wish you get it!!!

Good luck Ken, I hope your impressions are right and you get a confirming call soon. May I ask what's the job about?

Happy B-day, I hope you had a very good one

I don't know the W11JPN, never heard them, but I must agree about the L3000's midrange, it's excellent. It always surprised me that most people speaking about these cans, just tell about their bass, not their fluent and natural mids.

Thanks for the detailed comment . Let's see if the ESW10 improve over that.

Hmmm, let us know about those ESW10. For some time I was considering the ESW9 as a complement for the portable rig, but those comments about early units sounding different from the later production ones, and the perhaps excessive bass, kept me away from it. However some comfortable, easy to drive and decent sounding "big" cans -as opposed to IEMs- for a portable use keeps being an interesting idea to me.

Best of lucks Ken

Happy B-day

Have an awesome one

And automatically engineer too

Yep, I know him since his Audio Asylum days when he managed to get banned for his incisive comments Very opinionated, but he undoubtedly has the kind of approach to audio that I find interesting. Very insightful.

:prettyprincess:Me too me too Have a nice one

Probably both hehehe. Here most cars are stick gear, so keeping a hand busy on the cell is some handicap for proper driving. Add to that the distraction of running a conversation... Anyway, I'd need someone qualified to explain my why this need of being available 24/7 everywhere, and the need to tell someone every single crappy thought that crosses your mind.

I had the idea that US authorities were quite severe enforcing the law, especially traffic laws, and the people more respectful to them. When I was there I found intriguing everybody was so respectful with the speed limits. We've needed a lot of radars installed, harder laws and personnel to enforce them to get people speeding below the limits or driving alcohol free. If a traffic agent gets you driving without your license, you're in serious trouble here.

In Spain, and I think other eurpean countries too, it's forbidden to drive while speaking on a cell-phone. You can do if you have installed a free-hands system, but if they catch you with the cell on your hands driving, you get a fine and you may lose some credits of your driving license. If you have an accident and you're drunk, were using the cell-phone or other factors considered aggravating, you can go to jail. You also cannot drive wearing headphones, and they're considering to forbid smoking while driving too. For all the things you've been telling in this thread, I think you'd need a law forbidding the use of cell-phones while driving. Looks like most people overlooks how dangerous and concentration demanding is driving.

Funnily enough a modded Bidat may outperform the Lavry Gold (I have an acquaintance who owns several Bidats, the Lavry Gold, some Pacific Microsonics.. I think Moray knows this guy too) in some features. Of course YMMV and it's all about preferences, priorities and evaluation methods. The good part of the Lavry is that it's not discontinued and can be found more easily than any of the Museatex old DACs. If I hadn't already a Museatex I'd be looking at Lavry's gear. I guess that even the modest DA10, which I still have to try, has probably some of the interesting goods of the higher end products.