[unl3a5h3d]

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Originally Posted by dean0 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wharfedale 9.1 in Rosewood

Sweet, thanks. Those are some gorgeous speakers.

 

[bixby]

another user of concrete or cinder block. I like it!

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Upclose (concrete stabs with paper towels around it are holding the speakers):

 

[shuttleboi]

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Originally Posted by dean0 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wharfedale 9.1 in Rosewood

Wharfedale is a mass-market speaker brand in the UK, right? I don't see those around the USA very much. Does anyone know if that brand is comparable to, say, Polk or Infinity?

 

[bixby]

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Originally Posted by shuttleboi /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wharfedale is a mass-market speaker brand in the UK, right? I don't see those around the USA very much. Does anyone know if that brand is comparable to, say, Polk or Infinity?

Wharfedale is available in the US. Not a bad speaker line. You just have to look beyond the big box guys. Most of what the big box guys sell is way over priced for what you can get elsewhere. I spent hours at one yellow and blue box store listening to all sorts of speakers up to $3k a pair and I would not buy any even at one quarter of their asking price.

My preference runs to PSB in the reasonable price ranges. I just picked up a pair of Image B25s for my desktop setup. Very neutral and works very well in my setup. Much better than the 3X as expensive French monitors I had been using.

Another line to check out is Energy.

 

[punk_guy182]

Yeah PSB make pretty good speakers for the price. I own the B25 aswell and I like 'em but if you want more bass I recommend flourstanding speakers. Also NHT is pretty good.

 

[Uri Cohen]

Yeah concrete is the cheapest way to isolate the speakers from the desk. I also move the speakers closer to me and it did improve the bass and the over all sound quality.

Not bad for $5.

 

[krosenqu]

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Originally Posted by HyperDuel /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yeah concrete is the cheapest way to isolate the speakers from the desk. I also move the speakers closer to me and it did improve the bass and the over all sound quality. Not bad for $5.

Need to make some cloth covers for them though! I'd be worried about marring of the wood (both the desk and speakers) though the paper towels.

 

[unl3a5h3d]

Or if you have some spare change go get a couple of 12" x 12" slabs of granite or marble. Those would isolate well and look good

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[somestranger26]

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Originally Posted by MomijiTMO /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just don't buy Seagate drives. I've had 6 fail on me so far.

It's the complete opposite for me, the only problem I've ever had with a Seagate drive was the ST31500341AS and I knew it had firmware issues when I bought it, so I assumed the risk myself. I now have 3 of these drives in RAID 5 and not an issue since the first one. I still have a 6 year old Maxtor (!!!) drive still working, in addition to 2 Seagate 7200.10 320GBs about 2.5 years old and a 7200.8 160GB about 4 years old. With Western Digital, I've lost 4 drives in 2 years, pathetic.

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Originally Posted by Bojamijams /img/forum/go_quote.gif So true. Never EVER buy Seagate.

Seagate for life (well, I prefer Samsung's laptop drives).

 

[rjoseph]

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Originally Posted by shuttleboi Wharfedale is a mass-market speaker brand in the UK, right? I don't see those around the USA very much. Does anyone know if that brand is comparable to, say, Polk or Infinity?

I have a Wharfedale Modus 1.6 that I bought locally in PA. A steal at $150 on craigslist, near mint condition. Sounds amazing.

 

[hectuero]

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Originally Posted by somestranger26 /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's the complete opposite for me, the only problem I've ever had with a Seagate drive was the ST31500341AS and I knew it had firmware issues when I bought it, so I assumed the risk myself. I now have 3 of these drives in RAID 5 and not an issue since the first one. I still have a 6 year old Maxtor (!!!) drive still working, in addition to 2 Seagate 7200.10 320GBs about 2.5 years old and a 7200.8 160GB about 4 years old. With Western Digital, I've lost 4 drives in 2 years, pathetic. Seagate for life (well, I prefer Samsung's laptop drives).

Six years? Psh, I have an ancient Seagate that will be ten years old this July. I use it in my server as the OS drive. Everything else is Western Digital RE3 though (6 1TB drives).

I'll probably be migrating the OS to my old laptop drive soon for fear the Seagate is gonna die on me soon (it seems to be making odd high-pitched clicking noises intermittently, but I don't know if it's a bad thing or it just seeking…), and to get one step closer to not needing an ugly parallel cable in my case (the CD drive is IDE too, but actually isn't plugged in now).

 

[bixby]

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Originally Posted by krosenqu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Need to make some cloth covers for them though! I'd be worried about marring of the wood (both the desk and speakers) though the paper towels.

I went modern industrial with mine. Cinder Block with non-skid shelf liner on the bottom to protect the desk and three small neoprene and cork blocks to support each speaker and prevent tiny granules of the cinder block from marring the wood finish on the speaker.

This bottom one shows my older solution, compressed foam, but I have since replaced with the non-skid liner on the bottom.

 

[townes]

Here's mine:

Speakers: Klein + Hummel O 300 (Active Studio Monitor)
Preamp: Music First Audio (Passive Magnetic Preamplifier)
Headphone Amp: Woo Audio GES (with Parts Upgrade)
Headphones: Stax SR-007A
DAC: Weiss DAC2
SACD Player: Pioneer DV989 (audiopraise modification to grab the SACD layer as a 24/88 PCM signal)
PC (watercooled and silent), Asus P5E3 Premium, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, Plextor 760SA and Premium2, Intel SSD, Lynx AES16
Laptop (Lenovo T500 with Intel SSD). The Laptop is completely silent.
Some TBs of WD GreenPower in external cases (A-Tech Fabrication and Lian Li)

This is how it is connected:

Laptop ---> Firewire ---> DAC ---> Headphone Amp
Laptop ---> Firewire ---> DAC ---> Preamp ---> Speakers
PC ---> Lynx Output ---> SPDIF (XLR) ---> DAC ---> Headphone Amp
PC ---> Lynx Output ---> SPDIF (XLR) ---> DAC ---> Preamp ---> Speakers
SACD Player ---> SPDIF (BNC/XLR) ---> Lynx Input ---> Capture signal with Samplitude and save as FLAC

This is how it looks:

 

[.Sup]

Very nice townes, only the best I see

 

[h.rav]

^ Nice!