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AUDIO RELATED NEWS & MY THOUGHTS ON COMPONENTS I COME ACROSS THROUGH MY JOURNEY!!!!
"KUZMA 4 POINT 11" SETUP ON STABI R TURNTABLE PART 3"
G'day, everybody. In this video, I walk you through the cartridge setup on the tonearm. Also, we go through the anti-skate bias adjustment.
There will be a part 4 where I will go through the vta adjustment and the damping system on the tonearm.
There will be a part 4 where I will go through the vta adjustment and the damping system on the tonearm.
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"THE KOJO CRYSTAL E GROUNDING SYSTEM AN UPDATE"
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G'day, everybody. In this video, I did some further experimenting with the crystal E grounding system from kojo. Putting the grounding boxes into the left and the right unbalanced outputs on my Playback Designs mpd-8 further improved the presentation from anywhere else I'd had the grounding system in my setup. Also, isolating them on Stack Audio Auva EQ'S also improved them further. If you're i...
"LOOK WHAT ARRIVED IN THE POST TODAY" 🎧👍😁
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"LOOK WHAT ARRIVED IN THE POST TODAY" 🎧👍😁
"IS THIS GOING TO WORK🤔 ADDING A WILSON WATCHDOG SUBWOOFER INTO MY SYSTEM"
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"IS THIS GOING TO WORK🤔 ADDING A WILSON WATCHDOG SUBWOOFER INTO MY SYSTEM"
"OUT-TAKES FROM THE BIG ROOM MOVE AROUND"
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"OUT-TAKES FROM THE BIG ROOM MOVE AROUND"
"SETTING UP THE SPIKES ON MY AMP PLATFORMS"
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"SETTING UP THE SPIKES ON MY AMP PLATFORMS"
"KUZMA 4 POINT 11" SETUP ON STABI R TURNTABLE PART 2"
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"KUZMA 4 POINT 11" SETUP ON STABI R TURNTABLE PART 2"
"SOME MORE GOODIES HAVE ARRIVED FROM STACK AUDIO"😁🎧
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"SOME MORE GOODIES HAVE ARRIVED FROM STACK AUDIO"😁🎧
"KUZMA 4 POINT 11" SETUP ON STABI R TURNTABLE PART 1"
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"KUZMA 4 POINT 11" SETUP ON STABI R TURNTABLE PART 1"
"KOJO TECHNOLOGYS CRYSTAL E GROUNDING SYSTEM REVIEW"
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"KOJO TECHNOLOGYS CRYSTAL E GROUNDING SYSTEM REVIEW"
"SOME NEW GOODIES & SOME OLD ONES COMING INTO THE ROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME"
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"SOME NEW GOODIES & SOME OLD ONES COMING INTO THE ROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME"
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON TRIP DOWN TO THE COAST.
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A SUNDAY AFTERNOON TRIP DOWN TO THE COAST.
"SOME GOODNESS HAS ARRIVED IN THE POST" 📫 🎧👍
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"SOME GOODNESS HAS ARRIVED IN THE POST" 📫 🎧👍
"SETTING UP MY WILSON ALEXIA LOUDSPEAKERS IN MY ROOM"🎧
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"SETTING UP MY WILSON ALEXIA LOUDSPEAKERS IN MY ROOM"🎧
"STACK AUDIO SMOOTH LAN ×2 HOW DID IT SOUND"?🎧
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"STACK AUDIO SMOOTH LAN ×2 HOW DID IT SOUND"?🎧
"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD MY INTERVIEW WITH PAUL PART 2"
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"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD MY INTERVIEW WITH PAUL PART 2"
"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD MY INTERVIEW WITH PAUL PART 1"
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"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD MY INTERVIEW WITH PAUL PART 1"
"LINKWITZ LX521 BUILD THE SYSTEM INSTALLATION & VOICING PART 10"
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"LINKWITZ LX521 BUILD THE SYSTEM INSTALLATION & VOICING PART 10"
"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD PART 9" ME & THE SYSTEM TRAVELLING TO PAUL'S.
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"LINKWITZ LX521 THE BUILD PART 9" ME & THE SYSTEM TRAVELLING TO PAUL'S.
"MY THOUGHTS ON UHQR 45RPM STEELY DAN'S AJA"
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"MY THOUGHTS ON UHQR 45RPM STEELY DAN'S AJA"
RUNE SKOV FROM GRYPHON AUDIO PRESENTATION AT AVDI IN MANILA PART 3
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RUNE SKOV FROM GRYPHON AUDIO PRESENTATION AT AVDI IN MANILA PART 3
"MY FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE STACK AUDIO AUVA EQ'S UNDERNEATH MY AMPLIFIERS"
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"MY FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE STACK AUDIO AUVA EQ'S UNDERNEATH MY AMPLIFIERS"
"ISAO SUZUKI TRIO I CAN'T GET STARTED THREE BLIND MICE 45RPM"
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"ISAO SUZUKI TRIO I CAN'T GET STARTED THREE BLIND MICE 45RPM"
That whole album is dope
@@robertgallardo1090 yeah absolutely
Vinyl Valhalla? 😊
Sweet!!!
@VinylLatte I'm glad you enjoyed it, mate. 🎧🙂
The smartphone visualization technique is the pro tip of this video.
@dragocelander6671 Absolutely Dan, let technology be your friend😁👌👀
Beautiful track!
I'm glad you like it, mate🎧👍
Sounds fantastic! 🎶🎶👏🏻
I’m not sure I’ve asked you this Q. Does the Kuzma deck have an active suspension? Or is it fixed?
No active suspension, Dan. It's a heavy mass turntable.👌🎧
Hello there. Love your reaction to the Auva 100's. Can hardly think of a more convincing recommendation. Would you say that within a similar budget I should go into Auva 50's under my PMC twenty5.24s and Auva Eqs under my 46kgs heavy integrated or I should rather invest in the Auva 70s under my PMCs while leaving the integrated on the existing Isoacoustics Orea Bordeaux? Daniel (Poland). Cheerio
Hi Daniel, That's a good question. Speaker decoupling isolation is where the rubber really does hit the road. As you would be aware, your speakers are the things that create the vibration in your room. My advice would be to put the Auva 70s under your speakers, and then, as your budget allows, start putting the eqs under your components.🎧👍🙂
@@shanestephenson8423 Many thanks Shawn. Will return to share my experience with you hopefully soon. You've got yourself a new subscriber to your channel 😉
@danthe9869 Hi Daniel, Welcome aboard, mate. Please let me know how you go when you get them set up. I'm interested.👌🙂🎧
I love this song
Me 2👍
How do i get in contact with you Shane?
My email is shanestephenson71@gmail.com
The best album
So far ahead of its time in so many ways. 👌🎧🙂
"We have steely dan at home" Steely Dan at home:
My favorite album has to be either Aja or Countdown to Ecstasy
Yeah, they are both bangers.🎧🙂
One of the best bands ever! Intelligence! My 4 year old Grandson's most requested song!
Lol, I love it. The kid has got taste already 👌
Appreciate someone who loves theyre music as much as i do !x
@@davidtozer802 🙏🎧🙂
This, this, this!
I like the Gaucho the best in Steely Dan🎉
I love them all 🎧😁
i callad my cat Aja after the Album !
That's awesome 👌 😁👍
nice to know theres still Dan Fans Out there !all the best from the U.K X
Absolutely David, they are the Gold Standard as far as I'm concerned, and that's coming from an ex sound engineer.🎧🙂👍
Play some Gaucho!
@cameronstuart1397 Hi Cameron, I already have. Take a look through some of the shorts I was playing the uhqr of Gaucho. 👍🎧
Thank you.......More beautiful Music ❤
@@johnowens-ir2zv its my pleasure. It was an absolute joy playing that album.👍🎧🙂
If the Stack Audio Auva 100's work as well for you, as the Auva 100's under my One Thing Audio Quad 57's on OTA Rupert stands do for me everything is cleaner "with traces of haze/muddling have gone & yes more "punch deeper bass now room filling". The Auva 100's raise the already brilliant Quad 57's to a higher league
@johnharrigan8770 lol yeah John, you can't unhear that kind of improvement, can you.😁👍🎧
Peg is another favourite from this album to 👍
@@staceymangham me too🎧🙂
Josie is one of my favourite Dan tracks it has a bit of meat behind it and has good drive pushing it along at a urgent pace. I like the music you have been playing and hearing the improvements you have made and the videos have been entertaining and very informative for anyone with vinyl especially. A question Shane I noticed a gold screw on the front of your Lyra cartridge, do you know what it's for
@staceymangham Hi mate, as far as I understand, it's part of the construction of the cartridge. It looks like it bolts the front plate to the top of the cartridge that mounts to the tonearm.
@@shanestephenson8423 Ok I wondered if it was some type of adjustment screw for the cantilever or something, not that ive ever seen anything like that
Still with a sub?
@MasterSlamm Hi, Yes, the sub is always in now when I turn the system on.🎧👍
Platinum !!!
@@leejacobus5305 yes👌🎧
Aja and The Royal Scam are Steely Dan's masterpieces. They are always in my playlists.
@_TDS_is_Terminal l absolutely couldn't agree more and the same for me.👌🎧😁
Gaucho too!
@lyancisternas8879 Yeah, I love Gaucho awesome album.
@@lyancisternas8879 I love Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstacy too. I mean, you can't say there's a bad one.
Love Michael McDonald's voice.
@@smokiebird06 I think he's the perfect complement to Donald Fagen's voice.
@@_TDS_is_Terminal I totally agree.
Yeah, they put together the most insane ensemble cast's of musicians to produce those albums. 👍👌🎧
Nah....🎷..Just a very cool band!
Yeah, I agree👌🎧
Hands down, some of the best music ever!
I won't be arguing with you there.🙂👌🎧
Cool band from the 80s
70s
Shane, you got your system dialed in brother sounds amazing
Thanks, Eric. I agree it's never sounded this good, and this real. It's actually hard to get out of the room once I get in there.👌🎧😁
Yeah, the old days when we had stereo systems with big speakers and you could feel the music, but it was still very clear, unlike some of the super loud car systems that you hear now days, where it's just a big buzz as the car is rattling apart.
Yeah when I got out of the war in Vietnam we had opportunities to buy McIntosh units out of Germany that were fantastic
Yeah, there's just no nuance in music these days. The compression wars have got a lot to answer for.👍
Hi Shane i went back and edited the post to avoid any confusion for beginners after you found my error, just in case they don't read all the comments or connect your reply with my original post. I also should of added that your Kuzma is such a high quality arm that their recommended bias setting will probably be right and the viewing method is to check if you have a less expensive arm or fine tune it. In your case you have the often praised wally tools
@@staceymangham 👌👍
Amazing album.
@jamesholden4571 Yeah, I agree, James.👌🎧
I'd like to hear it there too.
This how it's done.
@@matthewgates4130 Absolutely Matthew 👍
Hi Shane ive just watched your pretty good tonearm setup and cartridge alignment and settings video. The only thing i would slightly modify is the bias setting, most tonearm manufacturers advice a bias setting of a similar figure as the tracking force and there is a common misconception to set the bias the same as the tracking force , from my little experience it will then apply too much pressure on the right side of the groove wall viewing from the front of the cartridge because the bias is too high at the same or higher settings than tracking force, it generally needs to be lower than tracking force. The method i use is to watch the cantilever and arm after lowering the arm onto the record and see if the arm moves abruptly towards the centre of the record or the cantilever deflecting to the right which will be the outer edge of the record. Obviously we are looking for equal pressure on both sides of the groove or a neutral point. We want the arm to touch down smoothly with no movement of the arm and or no deflection of the cantilever.Test records are the other option but apparently using one will possibly end up with too much bias. Hope this helps add a little to a great set-up video
@staceymangham Hi Stacey Kuzma suggest in their manual to essentially match the tracking force with the anti skate / bias, which is what I've done. I've also done the visual checks, and the cantilever is not pulling to the left or the right, and I'm not hearing any evidence of tracking distortion toward the inside of the record. One slight correction, if I may, if you have too much bias, the cantilever will pull to the left as the arm will be pulling towards the outside of the record if you're looking at the cartridge from the front. At that point, you would pick up tracking distortion in the left channel and also toward the inside of the record. At this point, I just wanted to set up according to the Kuzma manual, and then I will use the Wally tools to see if we can extract any more improvement. Then, at that point, I'll come back to you all with a video explaining what I changed to get further improvement from the original Kuzma setup. It should be an interesting little experiment.👍🎧👌
@@shanestephenson8423 Shane, of course you are dead right about the bias being too high would make the arm apply more pressure towards the outer edge of the record. I'm trying to write too quickly while eating so i made a heap of spelling errors, so I was not surprised at all I made that error too. Thankfully you have enough experience to "pick up" on it pun intended 😂 I should have mentioned your Kuzma arm is such high quality that their recommended settings for bias will be right and this is a way of verifying it on less expensive arms. Also I have heard the Wally tool is pretty trick. Also you have enough experience to hear the distortion, I also noticed when the bias isn't right it affects the imaging as well which could be a side effect of the distortion. Looking forward to your next instalment 😀
@staceymangham Yes, mate, correct on the imaging being off with too much bias or not enough 👍 Imaging is really good with all the tracks I've been playing. And a good test is those 2 Sting tracks they are both the very inside tracks on that album.👌🎧🙂
@@shanestephenson8423 Yes I certainly haven't been able to detect any problems from this end Shane, and im not at all surprised you aren't hearing any end of side distortion after seeing your cartridge lining up at both points on your alignment protractor it sounds fantastic, it was more for beginners with less expensive arms reading the comments after watching the video
@staceymangham Yes, Stacey, and it's definitely worth mentioning.👍
Nice setup.
@@caryhuff8924 Thanks Cary🙏
La mia infanzia, i miei sogni: dove siete giorni passati a riempire il tempo di idee lasciate andare nelle gocce di pioggia ❤
Look so good
@@oka10s24 🙏🙏🙏
GM☕️🥓💊🦘 That’s a great sounding playback 😊 I’ve heard a few Japanese pressings ..all have been uniformly excellent..on par with some MoFi pressings …all it takes is care in what you’re doing. As usual the rig is running like top from Inception 👍👍
@carminedesanto6746 I agree with all that you've put in that response, Carmine, and thank you🙏🙏🙏
👍 Aja the title track is a goodie some nice drumming
Yeah, mate, I've already done a short for Aja, and I've got a few more coming in the next days from that album.🎧👍
The piano on that sounds quite exquisite, and lovely flute sting has very complex musical arrangements and off beat rhythms and it shines through on your system. Every clip you post is highlighting the big improvement you have recently made, I hope other viewers are as aware of the level of improvement you have got to . 👌
@staceymangham Thanks Stacey, it really is a pleasure to be in this room listening to music these days. 👌🎧😁
Gee Shane I can only imagine how much that cost you it looked on camera like one plate would have served two. Give me a good ol roast any day lol. Enjoy your day out with the wife 🎉
Lol, yeah Stacey, I won't be needing dinner tonight.😎👌
Have you tried linking two grounding Boxs together and conecting them to the single digital imput . You could only do this if the rca imput is free because you are using either a xlr/balance , usb or optical interconnect . Or you might be using a RCA Digital interconect and your DAC might have 2 RCA imputs , so you have one spare to use .
Hi John, Yes, I did try that in my testing originally. There was a bigger audible difference when I had one box in each channel in my system. But of course, I think experimentation here is absolutely important because it really is a system specific component. I believe these things work and will work in just about every system, but it might look different between my system and yours, for instance.👍🎧
I'd love to eat mushrooms in there
@@gregoryguitars6291 ok.... field, button, Shontelle's,??????😅
@@shanestephenson8423 psilocybe cubensis
Shane, my suggested use of the Kojo devices on your MPD-8 was more about its impact on the analog volume control of the MPD-8 as a preamp than about influencing the digital domain of the DAC. But it might take a few more tests to resolve that point. I’m glad you tried it, which I’m going to do with my Kojo units on my MPD-8. 👊🏻👊🏻💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I had a dream last night that you were helping me set up my speakers in my room to improve soundstage. Thanks for your help!!😄
@robotstonka7118 it's nice to be dreamed about😅 But let's keep it in reality😁. I'm happy to help anyway I can with answering any questions I have the answers for.🎧👌👍
@shanestephenson8423 😄Thank you, I will keep this in mind for sure!! My system is not your calibre, but I'm happy with it's progress. I have Sopra 3 with 2x Rel 812S, Pass Labs xa30.8 with xp-12 preamp. My source is Electrocompaniet MKV cd player and the latest purchase dCS Lina DAC with the master clock. That DAC was a game changer, my system never sounded as good as now. I'm thinking about maybe upgrading to monoblocks xa60.8 one day, but for now I'm recovering from the latest purchase.😄 Do you live in Melbourne maybe?
@robotstonka7118 Yeah, the Lina dac is nice, and that would have really changed things for sure. I live in Geelong.
Great supplemental review, Shane! I have a set of the basic Kojo virtual grounds in the house. Can’t wait to set them up on my MPD-8 (with a CSA1 underneath each Kojo). I’m now wondering whether you would obtain more benefits from running a second pair of Kojo units in series. If you obtain further benefits, then perhaps the basic units have some sort of limited grounding capacity or in the alternative, have an inherent back wave of noise leakage. In the later case of inherent leakage of noise from the Kojo unit, it might be curable by enclosing the Kojo unit in a Faraday bag such as those products from SLNT. Thoughts?
Hi Dan, Yes, all your comments are valid points, and warrant further investigation, I suspect. But I guess the point of my review was to let people know there's a relatively inexpensive way without a lot of fuss to improve the things I've spoken about in my review. But as you know, any audiophile worth their salt will start trying to improve things further. That's just what we do.😅🎧👌