Something New Has Arrived :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

Two pieces at 176 lbs. each require the guys from Manny's Piano Moving to bring up to the listening room :~)

 

More to come. Stay tuned.

 

[Jud]

EMM amps?

[firedog]

13 minutes ago, Jud said:

EMM amps?

Got to be some insane massive amps.

Unless Chris is going to move his perfectly placed Wilsons and listen to some big new floorstanders. Somehow I don't think so.

[The Computer Audiophile]

No new amps or speakers :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

Two transformers. One 4kva and one 5kva.

 

http://512engineering.com/index.php/power-delivery

 

[firedog]

Will be interesting to hear your results I tried one in my system and didn't think it added anything (or hurt anything).

[Albrecht]

2 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Two transformers. One 4kva and one 5kva.

 

http://512engineering.com/index.php/power-delivery

 

 

WHOA!! You can make some money selling all that extra power back to the grid!   😛  😀

[lucretius]

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Two pieces at 176 lbs. each require the guys from Manny's Piano Moving to bring up to the listening room :~)

 

More to come. Stay tuned.

 

 

You're going to need to install a freight elevator at your house!  ☺️

[charlesphoto]

Oh man. Was frustrated with my printer yesterday and looking into the latest model. Only 313 pounds shipped (236 is the printer itself). The thought of getting that down to the basement makes me think my current one can be coddled a bit longer! 

[AudioDoctor]

1 hour ago, charlesphoto said:

Oh man. Was frustrated with my printer yesterday and looking into the latest model. Only 313 pounds shipped (236 is the printer itself). The thought of getting that down to the basement makes me think my current one can be coddled a bit longer! 

 

 

I have experience with that, it took a lot of creative thinking to get the damned thing OUT of a basement and up a narrow staircase.

[Samuel T Cogley]

A home printer that weighs over 200 lbs.  Wow.

[lucretius]

1 hour ago, charlesphoto said:

Oh man. Was frustrated with my printer yesterday and looking into the latest model. Only 313 pounds shipped (236 is the printer itself). The thought of getting that down to the basement makes me think my current one can be coddled a bit longer! 

 

Are you running a copy/print shop out of your house? ☺️

[charlesphoto]

18 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

A home printer that weighs over 200 lbs.  Wow.

 

Canon Pro-7000 24" wide format photo printer. My current Canon ipf6400 ONLY weighs 154 lbs. Let's not even talk about the 44" wide models. 

[Samuel T Cogley]

I'm so not judging.  I purchased a $2300 ADC just to digitize LPs. 🙂

[rando]

2 hours ago, lucretius said:

 

You're going to need to install a freight elevator at your house!  ☺️

 

 

I can about imagine his wife, much less the city permit board, looking over that plan. 

 

Structural analysis to estimate the approximate safe load bearing capacity of his attic floor sure sounds fun on the other hand.  We build 'em pretty big and feed 'em pretty well up here.  Which is fairly well accounted for in older houses.  So he's still got a margin to play with I'd imagine.  At some point I'd start being wary about adding two piano mover sized guys carrying twice their weight again.

[charlesphoto]

40 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

I'm so not judging.  I purchased a $2300 ADC just to digitize LPs. 🙂

 

I never thought you were. FTR I'm a professional photographer who makes most of his living selling fine art prints of my music work. Just printed up some this morning for an exhibit in Florence, Italy next month. Honestly considering the size and tech in these printers they are cheap. The expendables not so much, which is where they make up for it. 

[mansr]

1 hour ago, rando said:

I can about imagine his wife, much less the city permit board, looking over that plan. 

 

Structural analysis to estimate the approximate safe load bearing capacity of his attic floor sure sounds fun on the other hand.  We build 'em pretty big and feed 'em pretty well up here.  Which is fairly well accounted for in older houses.  So he's still got a margin to play with I'd imagine.  At some point I'd start being wary about adding two piano mover sized guys carrying twice their weight again.

Now I'm imagining working out the locations they can safely sit without putting too much load on the floor and underlying structures. Getting them into position one will of course have to follow carefully planned paths, possibly coordinating their movements to avoid temporarily exceeding any limits. Kind of like those old Sokoban games.

[One and a half]

@The Computer Audiophile, you may need some of that snow to cool the transformers, at low loads , reactive currents keep the temperature warm.

 

Good to see the ground can be tied together between the two , that’s really important for keeping the grounds the same potential.

 

There's enough difficulty in moving a 2 kVA around, let alone 5 .... your floor up to it?

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, One and a half said:

@The Computer Audiophile, you may need some of that snow to cool the transformers, at low loads , reactive currents keep the temperature warm.

 

Good to see the ground can be tied together between the two , that’s really important for keeping the grounds the same potential.

 

There's enough difficulty in moving a 2 kVA around, let alone 5 .... your floor up to it?

This floor is made of incredibly strong wood from the 1940s when houses around here were built very well. 

[rando]

44 minutes ago, mansr said:

Now I'm imagining working out the locations they can safely sit without putting too much load on the floor and underlying structures. Getting them into position one will of course have to follow carefully planned paths, possibly coordinating their movements to avoid temporarily exceeding any limits. Kind of like those old Sokoban games.

 

Like I said, fun!  

 

 

[Foggie]

Manny’s out on delivery 

”oh geezzzz, not that speaker guy again”🙄

[One and a half]

2 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

This floor is made of incredibly strong wood from the 1940s when houses around here were built very well. 

Ahh, in the days where QA didn’t exist and just by looking at the timbers, it would last a very long time.

Seems these days houses are made of pressed pine laminates and hardwoods a rarity; in our country anyway.

[ShawnC]

Is it Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard cryogenically frozen?

[mansr]

34 minutes ago, One and a half said:

Ahh, in the days where QA didn’t exist and just by looking at the timbers, it would last a very long time.

Seems these days houses are made of pressed pine laminates and hardwoods a rarity; in our country anyway.

Where I come from, the structural elements are mostly pine or spruce with no treatment whatsoever.

[Rexp]

Look forward to hearing how these transformers affect your SQ, as most Audiophiles know, power supply, especially to digital sources, is key!