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Yeah slick setup. I think I would like the speakers more if they were smooth piano black or even matte finish rather than the black wood veneer which to me just kinda looks cheap and out of place on that speaker design.
 
Mather said:
Audiofest is coming through Toronto in a few weeks and the list of exhibitors is exhaustive, I keep going back and forth with myself over whether I should go or not, because when it comes to fancy things and my wallet, thar be monsters...
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How does one find these "fests"? I'd be curious if any ever come through Ohio but I don't know who puts them on.
 
Mather said:
Yeah slick setup. I think I would like the speakers more if they were smooth piano black or even matte finish rather than the black wood veneer which to me just kinda looks cheap and out of place on that speaker design.
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I’m pretty sure they do them in walnut real wood veneer too. It’s the front of them that I don’t like, it’s a weird bulge and I’m always nervous or weird bulges…
 
folsom_lives said:
How does one find these "fests"? I'd be curious if any ever come through Ohio but I don't know who puts them on.
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Honestly the only reason I even knew it was coming was that my cousin called me and asked if I wanted tickets. But then I googled "audio show Toronto" and a bunch of stuff showed up. I would just google your location and see what comes up. But I agree. I never hear about this stuff otherwise.
 
AnthonyI said:
Just wanted to share a little something that may or may not help some now and or in the future, it's concerning buzz and or hum. So I just got the Sonata3 a few days ago and I also replaced some cables, just shorter runs, not different brand, Blue Jean for the record. After the cable swap I noticed a hum, not crazy, but if you turned up the volume you could hear it, my rig is usually dead silent at any volume. My first thought, it must be the cables, this has happened to me before with Pangea cables in my rig, so it was the first thing I checked.

I spun the TT around so I could get to the connections, checked the ground while I was there, disconnected the cables, plugged them in and before moving everything back around, fired everything up and gave a listen. No more hum, sweet, maybe something was loose, the ground?

Put everything back and called it a night. Today, when I fired it up and got ready to put some mileage on the Sonata, the damn hum was back, WTF! So I turned everything around again, but this time I replaced the cables with another pair I had laying around, just to start eliminating things. New/different cables, fired it up, no hum..............put everything back like it was and the hum came back.

So I spent some time researching, and I know about the Grado Hum issue, but it's never been an issue as best I remember, I found the same ole comments and complaints, "It's because Grado's aren't shielded", "change your cart or change your TT", that one made me laugh, but I get it. Then I came across 1 single post, nobody confirmed it, nobody commented back on it, but it simply said "I had the same problem, but when I moved my amp about 6" away from the turntable the problem disappeared". I'm like, nah, can't be that simple, after all these years about the Grado hum, that's it? So first I found some pics of the M5's inside, sure enough, the large power supply sits on the left hand side of the case, my TT is to the left of the amp, so the cart and power supply are pretty close. Let's give it a shot.

I pulled the two apart as far as I could on my rack and fired it up, sure enough, no f**king hum. Just for the hell of it, I started to slide my amp closer to the TT, and I'll be damned, you could hear the hum come back and get louder as it got closer to the cart/TT.

So, another lesson learned, if you have a "Grado hum", maybe move your amp away from it and it will solve your problem, just something to store in your database just in case. I highlighted some parts of this in red so you can see the pattern due to the distance between cart and power supply, it made perfect sense ;)

PS: I love this cart :)
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i sorta wonder if this is what's happening with my current setup...my TT is stacked on top of my phono, then maybe 6-8" below is the NAD. the hum is very faint but can hear it on headphones easily. haven't been able to fix the issue although will try to swap the power cable at some point so I can try that iFi defender...
 
Angsty said:
Kinda looks like a snake hanging off the back of that speaker….
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