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Post by antonio on May 6, 2020 14:51:30 GMT
Let's get the bad news out of the way first. Purchased a pair of B&O H6 headphones on ebay at a good price and they arrived today. Unfortunately sound is only coming out of one earpiece and the cable is faulty since I have also tried it with my PSB's.
Good news then, I got 3 months of Amazon music on a free trial and am listening to it through my PSB M4U1's, using my new Topping D30 dac and Oehlback reclocker and then into an NVA headphone amp and it's sounding pretty good. I purchased the B&O H6's thinking they would give me the sound I was after more than my current headphones.
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Post by jandl100 on May 7, 2020 7:55:01 GMT
What are you doing about the H6?
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Post by antonio on May 7, 2020 10:03:43 GMT
Just received my returns label from ebay. The barrel of the 3.5mm connector is smaller than normal with the B&O's, which is putting me off a little, not easy to change the cable, since I don't like having a volume control on the cable. How do you get on with yours Jerry?
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Post by antonio on May 7, 2020 10:06:38 GMT
More bad news today, while listening to some music one of the speakers fell to the floor, one of the M6 spikes just snapped on the bottom of the stand! Anyone else ever heard of that, so have just ordered 8 replacements off ebay
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Post by macca on May 7, 2020 10:52:37 GMT
Metal fatigue, must have been made by De Havilland.
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Post by Bigman80 on May 7, 2020 12:59:54 GMT
More bad news today, while listening to some music one of the speakers fell to the floor, one of the M6 spikes just snapped on the bottom of the stand! Anyone else ever heard of that, so have just ordered 8 replacements off ebay Never heard of that. Are the speakers ok? |
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Post by antonio on May 7, 2020 13:18:22 GMT
Luckily the speaker still works, scratch or two but they are acrylic.
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Post by jandl100 on May 7, 2020 14:45:48 GMT
Your best off without spikes anyway, imo.
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Post by antonio on May 7, 2020 19:44:14 GMT
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Post by Bigman80 on May 7, 2020 23:20:15 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on May 8, 2020 19:12:33 GMT
I use Auralex speaker platforms for that wibbly-wobbly effect.
Marvellous things - I think spikes are entirely the wrong approach - very 80s.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 19:21:33 GMT
Thought the idea was to keep the bass units still ?
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Post by jandl100 on May 8, 2020 19:33:21 GMT
Thought the idea was to keep the bass units still ? Yes, that does sound sensible, doesn't it. But the pretty much unanimous verdict of users of the Townshend Podiums and similar wobblers is that the bass greatly improves when you let it wobble. There's probably a technical paper about it on the Townshend site but I can't be arsed to look. My wobbly (and much cheaper than Townshend) Auralex platforms certainly seem to give an all-round improvement. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 19:35:41 GMT
Right. I've got some hard rubber feet supplied for polished floors so I'll swap spikes for them tonight and see if there's an improvement on the carpet floor.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 19:37:10 GMT
Maybe they kill the lowers a bit and cut down on the res.
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Post by antonio on May 9, 2020 5:06:23 GMT
I think the Townsend work on a different principle than simple rubber feet.
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Post by stevew on May 9, 2020 7:26:32 GMT
I use Auralex speaker platforms for that wibbly-wobbly effect. Marvellous things - I think spikes are entirely the wrong approach - very 80s. Morning Jerry Trying to identify the speaker platforms. Do you use these?  |
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Post by jandl100 on May 9, 2020 8:51:49 GMT
These are the buggers ...  Auralex ProPad XL |
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Post by stevew on May 9, 2020 9:51:14 GMT
Ah, excellent. I’ve always been curious after placing the spikes on my custom audio stands into these things. They then sit on the carpet on an old Victorian floor. They wobble about but sound much better than sitting rigid on spikes/Philips screws etc. Then when I heard some floorstanders on Townsend bars it was a bit of a lightbulb moment. Think these things (including the quadraspire skeet things) are stopping low energy going up the stand so isolating them. Don’t have the room to have the Townsend bars accepted aesthetically. These might get through the acceptability filter.🥴  |
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Post by antonio on May 9, 2020 16:10:22 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on May 9, 2020 16:53:36 GMT
^Hmm, 30% off - are they legit?
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Post by Bigman80 on May 9, 2020 17:29:44 GMT
^Hmm, 30% off - are they legit? Yes.....I've seen a pair and heard them, or not as the case may be |
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Post by stevew on May 9, 2020 19:51:19 GMT
Yeah, the inner disc is set in some kind of rubber or polymer. |
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