Do you get much noise from that snare when the systems cranked? I seem to remember a bit of noise comming out of them when subjected to high volume distorted guitar in smallish rooms

you dont have to frame them to hang them.

Get some cloud anchors which screw into the pannels

then just put some 3m hooks on the walls to hang them as the panels are light

They look good. Although the frames are really to cover up my dodgy edges

HF, I have the same lamp as yours.....How is the STA, are you happy with its performance ?

Getting there. A couple quirks to work through but I haven't the time to 'play' around

Do you get much noise from that snare when the systems cranked? I seem to remember a bit of noise comming out of them when subjected to high volume distorted guitar in smallish rooms

No. The snare is left open and the kit is tuned pretty dry. No sounds coming off it that I can tell. I was surprised.

HI Houdinifangs

Just wondering what were the slabs under your subs before and did they make a difference?

Concrete paver from Bunnings. They made a huge difference in my old room as it had 1" heavy carpet and the subs are down firing. My new room is smaller with more reflective surfaces and short carpet so the slabs are not required.

'Fangs, what step up do you use for the Denons?

regards Ian

Some work in progress today. Luckydog sorted me out with some high density fibre glass last weekend. All needed to do was cover some of the panels. While yellow isn't my thing, my room is now nicely tamed. Once they're all covered I intend to frame and mount them a bit higher than they presently are. The glass door and window will get some heavy treatment...when I can...

When it's all down I'll get the DSLR from work and take some good pics too

Love the orange crock's have a HIFi pair myself

High density fibreglass eh, anyone know wher to het some from?

'Fangs, what step up do you use for the Denons?

regards Ian

Dynavector P75 MC phono no SUT

Love the orange crock's have a HIFi pair myself

My secret is out...I wear them with socks too...next I'll have elbow patches

High density fibreglass eh, anyone know wher to het some from?

PM Luckydog AKA Phil at PMG

'Fangs, long time no hear, check this out!

Oren Ambarchi: Sagittarian Domain

much more approachable than most of his more out there pieces, sounds pretty damn cool, some Can ish moments?

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+144

< Oren Ambarchi - Guitars, Moog Bass, Drums, Percussion, Voice

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Elizabeth Welsh - Violin

James Rushford - Viola

Judith Hamann - Cello

Recorded by Lachlan Carrick at Sing Sing, Melbourne May 26, 2011

Strings recorded by Joe Talia at Chinatown, Melbourne Oct 11, 2011

Strings arranged by James Rushford

Mixed by Joe Talia and Oren Ambarchi at Chinatown March 7, 2012

Mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose, Melbourne May 8, 2012

Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2012

Featured in Benedict Andrews' production of 'Every Breath', Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney 2012

Photography by Shunichiro Okada

For anyone who still associates Oren Ambarchi exclusively with the clipped, bass-heavy tones of solo electric guitar works such as Suspension, this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album-length piece might seem to come out of nowhere. However, listeners who have followed the breadth of his work for the last few years (solo and in projects with collaborators from Jim O’Rourke to Stephen O’Malley and Keith Rowe to Keiji Haino) will have noted how Ambarchi has allowed increasingly clear traces of his enthusiasms as a music listener (for classic rock, minimal techno and 70’s fusion, among other areas) to surface in his performances and recordings, all the time filtering them through his signature long-form structures and psychoacoustic sonics.

Recorded in a single inspired studio session, Sagittarian Domain displaces Ambarchi’s trademark guitar sound from the centre of the mix, its presence felt only as an occasional ghostly reverberated shimmer. Endlessly pulsating guitar and bass lines sit alongside electronic percussion and thundering motorik drumming (familiar from his work with Keiji Haino) at the core of the piece, locking into a voodoo groove like Faust covering a 70’s cop show theme. The work is founded on hypnotic almost-repetition, the accents of the drum hits and interlocking bass and guitar lines shifting almost imperceptibly back and forwards over the beat as they undergo gradual transformations of timbre. Cut-up and phase-shifted strings enter around the half-way mark like an abstracted memory of the eastern-tinged fusion of the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s classic Visions of the Emerald Beyond, before returning for an extended, stark yet affecting come-down coda, equal parts Gavin Bryars and Purple Rain.

While Sagittarian Domain contains traces of a diversity of influences, it mines all of them to uncover something that is clearly an extension of Ambarchi’s own investigations up to this point, exhibiting the same care for micro-detail and surrender to the physicality of sound that are present in all of his work, extending them in new ways to repetition, pulse and rhythm

Francis Plagne >

Ahah! I see that the vinyl is cut by Rashad Becker at Dub plates

his studio is in Kreuzberg, we visited the related nearby Hard Wax shop!

http://hardwax.com

see long interview with him by Robert Henke aka monolake

http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html

regards Ian

Ian, there's always room for one more in my padded cell. Anytime you're down this way just give me a poke...

Well a change in circumstance has seen some unpredicted down scaling and a room change over the past months. Most of my more exotic gear had to be sold to fund necessities but the music never stopped

The Audio Space amp survived and the Krix speakers (from p.1)  are back on duties. There's a cheap Pioneer Blu-ray fed into an Audio GD NFB 10.something DAC that does a tidy job on the digital end. TT is a Rega RP6 with a Benz Micro MC Gold/Ortofon 2M Bronze into a PS Audio GCPH phono. Lucky enough to win a door prize at the Audio Fidelity opening so have a sexy Van den Hul Thames phono RCA cable (it's red)...must say it really improved my analogue end.

Looking forward to big and better things in 2013...think I deserve some nice new speakers before the end of the year...

Sorry to hear about the downsizing mate, hope the circumstances have got themselves sorted out and you have a good year

I dig those drums HF, I reckon anyone who can play the drums is a genius.  More co-ordination than I can handle that's for sure!

Still a nice system mate.

Enjoy the music no matter how it reaches your ears

Cheers mate nice to se you are setup again.

Shame you had to downsize Fangs ... though you still have a very nice system to keep enjoying.

I see the Deck, I see the Drums now all that's left is too hear the Rock n Roll! (Sticks my head out my window...listening for Matt's "Machine Head" album playing across the neighbourhood) 

 

Its good to see your music is back on tap again, enjoy.

 

Tony

Ok a New Years update a few things changed over 2013. Biggest change was the Hoyt-Bedford Type 4's which I love. Got rid of the Audio GD DAC and added Delrin platter to the RP6. Got a couple little ideas on the cook in the near future so thought I'd update this before any more changes occur.

Also lost access to a digital SLR so hopefully next time I'll have another one of them...

Edited January 9, 201412 yr by houdinifangs

Hey Matt, how are enjoying the new platter? Just got an achroplat for mine - certainly different but yet to decide if I like it more.

Hey Matt, how are enjoying the new platter? Just got an achroplat for mine - certainly different but yet to decide if I like it more.

Enjoying the platter muchly. We should do a platter shoot out sometime.

Fangs, give us an update, how is your system mojo?

He's abandoned us.

Obviously found a real life somewhere else.

He is hanging out in the classifieds now, where it seems most of the lovely gears have been and wondering on what his vinyls will be played on?

Edited October 28, 201411 yr by LockedoutofCraigC

I think we might have to drop in on him one night and have a word in his shell-like.

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