show us your dressing up! ????

nigelb posted:

feeling_zen posted:

S3 posted:

Total insanity......

I notice you seem to be using bog standard pipe lagging there to keep the burndy isolated. If so, you may find that regular lagging is a fairly poor mechanical damper as it is still too stiff. I use Aeroflex as it has truly excellent damping properties (extremely soft and light). I have a few cut offs at the bottom to stop long leads touching the floor and use 12mm walled tubing for the entire run of speaker cables since they have to run parallel to mains cable and it provides that 12mm of air between them. It even goes round corners at 90 degree without cutting. They do various tube sizes and even flat sheets. More expensive than regular lagging but still costs next to nothing.

Just been listening to a conversation in my head about the pros and cons of upgrading my bog standard pipe insulation used for cable dressing to Aeroflex!?!?! 

The shrinks would have a field day.

Nigel, just walk away, step back from the audiophile insulation, nothing to see here. 

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

feeling_zen posted:

S3 posted:

Total insanity......

I notice you seem to be using bog standard pipe lagging there to keep the burndy isolated. If so, you may find that regular lagging is a fairly poor mechanical damper as it is still too stiff. I use Aeroflex as it has truly excellent damping properties (extremely soft and light). I have a few cut offs at the bottom to stop long leads touching the floor and use 12mm walled tubing for the entire run of speaker cables since they have to run parallel to mains cable and it provides that 12mm of air between them. It even goes round corners at 90 degree without cutting. They do various tube sizes and even flat sheets. More expensive than regular lagging but still costs next to nothing.

Just been listening to a conversation in my head about the pros and cons of upgrading my bog standard pipe insulation used for cable dressing to Aeroflex!?!?! 

The shrinks would have a field day.

Nigel, just walk away, step back from the audiophile insulation, nothing to see here. 

But...but....my cables need  the best possible dressing, don't they?

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

Just been listening to a conversation in my head about the pros and cons of upgrading my bog standard pipe insulation used for cable dressing to Aeroflex!?!?! 

The shrinks would have a field day.

Nigel, just walk away, step back from the audiophile insulation, nothing to see here. 

But...but....my cables need  the best possible dressing, don't they?

Not necessarily, I'm more a "sauce first" person myself. 

Sod it. I’m not mucking around with Aeroflex. I’m biting the bullet and upgrading to Super Lumina pipe lagging....

S3 posted:

Sod it. I’m not mucking around with Aeroflex. I’m biting the bullet and upgrading to Super Lumina pipe lagging....

S3 posted:

Sod it. I’m not mucking around with Aeroflex. I’m biting the bullet and upgrading to Super Lumina pipe lagging....

Oooooh......how much is that a metre and where can you get it. Yes gotta get that!

The bottom plate has been lifted off and attached to the back of a new bench. I have no idea if it improves on anything but my ability to finally tidying up the cables.

Mr Fjeld posted:

The bottom plate has been lifted off and attached to the back of a new bench. I have no idea if it improves on anything but my feeling of finally tidying up the cables.

Aahhhh.......that is good to see, I am not alone.

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Mr Fjeld posted:

The bottom plate has been lifted off and attached to the back of a new bench. I have no idea if it improves on anything but my ability to finally tidying up the cables.

Very neat, Mr Fjeld. I'm impressed.

I think Mike-B needs to contribute to this thread because, from memory, his cable-dressing was as neat as that inside one of Naim's pre-amps! 

S3 posted:

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Can we please just stop this nonsense .......... everyone knows that that the Chord version will be infinitely superior! 

dave marshall posted:

S3 posted:

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Can we please just stop this nonsense .......... everyone knows that that the Chord version will be infinitely superior! 

Yeah but I have a SuperLumina full loom so I need the SL pipe insulation too so as not to ruin the SL synergy thingy. Right? And at £467 per meter it is bound to be cheaper than the Chord Taylon equivalent. The price sounds very reasonable to me. See you all at Bristol.

Mr Fjeld posted:

The bottom plate has been lifted off and attached to the back of a new bench. I have no idea if it improves on anything but my ability to finally tidying up the cables.

Smart solution — very tidy indeed. 

nigelb posted:

Mr Fjeld posted:

The bottom plate has been lifted off and attached to the back of a new bench. I have no idea if it improves on anything but my feeling of finally tidying up the cables.

Aahhhh.......that is good to see, I am not alone.

The funny thing is that when my wife wanted the bench scrapped in favour of another entirely different one I heard myself reply but....but....but you want me to destroy this (as if it was one of my biggest achievements in life )

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

S3 posted:

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Can we please just stop this nonsense .......... everyone knows that that the Chord version will be infinitely superior! 

Yeah but I have a SuperLumina full loom so I need the SL pipe insulation too so as not to ruin the SL synergy thingy. Right?

Yes, you're absolutely correct, silly me. 

Just to turn completely sensible for a mo' ............... call me Mr. Obsessive, but I've completed the full SL loom, (or is that full loon?), by getting hold of a pair of SL links for my bi-post speakers.

Mad, or what? 

MDS posted:

I think Mike-B needs to contribute to this thread because, from memory, his cable-dressing was as neat as that inside one of Naim's pre-amps! 

Nah    I’m too shy to do dressing up.  I must say I’m impressed with Mr Fjeld’s NACA5, I would be happier if it had pukka Naim banana plugs into the amp tho’   but hey ho  its a nice neat way to loose speaker cable. 

You're too modest, Mike 

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

S3 posted:

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Can we please just stop this nonsense .......... everyone knows that that the Chord version will be infinitely superior! 

Yeah but I have a SuperLumina full loom so I need the SL pipe insulation too so as not to ruin the SL synergy thingy. Right?

Yes, you're absolutely correct, silly me. 

Just to turn completely sensible for a mo' ............... call me Mr. Obsessive, but I've completed the full SL loom, (or is that full loon?), by getting hold of a pair of SL links for my bi-post speakers.

Mad, or what? 

I couldn't bring myself to spend the several hundred pounds on the SL links so got the next best thing, Vertere Pulse B Mini (I think) links. For your system though, probably worth the extra. Like you, my thinking was why spend so much on an SL loom, just to terminate it at the speaker end with NACA5 links which I was using. But then I saw how much the SL links were and there was a loud voice in my head which sounded remarkably like my wife!

nigelb posted:

But then I saw how much the SL links were and there was a loud voice in my head which sounded remarkably like my wife!

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

S3 posted:

They are launching it at the Bristol show. £467 per meter. You get what you pay for.

Can we please just stop this nonsense .......... everyone knows that that the Chord version will be infinitely superior! 

Yeah but I have a SuperLumina full loom so I need the SL pipe insulation too so as not to ruin the SL synergy thingy. Right?

Yes, you're absolutely correct, silly me. 

Just to turn completely sensible for a mo' ............... call me Mr. Obsessive, but I've completed the full SL loom, (or is that full loon?), by getting hold of a pair of SL links for my bi-post speakers.

Mad, or what? 

I couldn't bring myself to spend the several hundred pounds on the SL links so got the next best thing, Vertere Pulse B Mini (I think) links. For your system though, probably worth the extra. Like you, my thinking was why spend so much on an SL loom, just to terminate it at the speaker end with NACA5 links which I was using. But then I saw how much the SL links were and there was a loud voice in my head which sounded remarkably like my wife!

I did have an extended conversation with Bob Surgeoner at Neat, (one of the good guys, by the way),  to see what it would cost to re-wire my speakers internally with SL.

Let's not go there ................ and actually, I'm really joking anyway ................ honest! 

MDS posted:

You're too modest, Mike 

Aww shucks       I've got a lot on at the mo,  but as we have a wet saturday coming & with some time off  (please boss),  I might be tempted the pull out the rack for a spring (late winter) clean.  Not least because, spurred on by this thread,  I don't have an up to date photo of my set up's rear end & underwear dressing,  all I have is CDX2 & that was moved out almost 4 years ago.  

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

feeling_zen posted:

S3 posted:

Total insanity......

I notice you seem to be using bog standard pipe lagging there to keep the burndy isolated. If so, you may find that regular lagging is a fairly poor mechanical damper as it is still too stiff. I use Aeroflex as it has truly excellent damping properties (extremely soft and light). I have a few cut offs at the bottom to stop long leads touching the floor and use 12mm walled tubing for the entire run of speaker cables since they have to run parallel to mains cable and it provides that 12mm of air between them. It even goes round corners at 90 degree without cutting. They do various tube sizes and even flat sheets. More expensive than regular lagging but still costs next to nothing.

Just been listening to a conversation in my head about the pros and cons of upgrading my bog standard pipe insulation used for cable dressing to Aeroflex!?!?! 

The shrinks would have a field day.

Nigel, just walk away, step back from the audiophile insulation, nothing to see here. 

But...but....my cables need  the best possible dressing, don't they?

Until you've dressed a burndy in a smoking jacket and cravat, you're just not getting top class performance wot wot.

You mean Armaflex? Horrible floppy ugly black stuff. Got a couple of lengths of it in my garage. It’s staying there. 

I think I need to get Mr Fjeld to come round and sort my dressing for me...

Stu