glazing your quadraspire

Posted by: gerni g. on 14 July 2003

hi,

had this strange idea some days ago. what would happen if you take three chromium steel balls about 1,2cm in diameter, 3 stainless steel lock nuts m10 and 2 glassplates each 10mm thick?
had all by hand.
and how would this change the sound of my quadraspire?
first i must say, my quadraspire was standard and is upgraded to a reference but without changing the rods. there is the drilled out veneer, the spacers, the al-spikes and the bog seats. i know that somethings missing to the real reference but it will quite come close. so far.
what i did was inspecting my friends fraim, messuring the distance where the balls are located. then marked the first glass plate and put the locknuts and balls into position.
some time ago i double glazed my soundframe which supports my poweramps. so here for my cd the same again.
now my cd has some killerbass. really enjoyable.
taking away the glass the sound gets more natural or how my friend describes it: "more timbre".
i highly recommend this to everyone missing the killerbass. try this first under your poweramps.
this will definitly leave more naturalness as going source first.
for me one rack can´t give true satisfaction.
going always for a combo.
first started with a quadraspire and reckognizing that there´s something missing.
the best was to put some mana under my poweramps. this was very good, leaving the frontend untouched.
but always had thoughts about giving a little more killerbass. the glass works fine and does exactly what i want.
if you don´t want to experiment this way try the following: for sources take a fraim, for preamps take a qs reference and for poweramps go for mana.
if you want to experiement further switch between all three for the sources.

happy listening,

g.
Posted on: 16 July 2003 by Thomas K
I think Gerni uses this term to describe low, tight bass with "clout".

Although I know Gerni's QS-supported system well, I haven't heard it with the Fraim-type ball-bearing and glass mod for the CDP -- he's changed back and forth a few times and hasn't decided yet which sound he prefers.

As long as I've known him he's been using a mixture of stands: modded QS for sources and pre, Mana Soundframe for the power amps. That combination with painstaking setup has resulted in a stunning bass performance from a simple pair of Katans. A rather unorthodox approach in the world of endless stand wars.

Thomas
Posted on: 16 July 2003 by Steve Toy
Time to get the Ref rods methinks. It will be simple and effective.

The tapering, whilst more costly to turn, kill resonances better.

Steel and glass will probably sound, er, different...


Regards,

Steve.
Posted on: 17 July 2003 by gerni g.
hi mr.toy,

the rods are one plnned future upgrade.
what´s the tapering?
as far as i know, the ref does have a different laquer which effects the sound too.
the bog seats are diy and are matched for each device. so if i change one box, the bog seat can easily be larger but not smaller.

-g.