Latest project completed

Finally finished a project I have been dragging my feet on for awhile.  The surround on my Vandersteen’s midrange detached.  I have tried  my hand at re-foaming speakers before and didn’t have very good luck with it.  I decided to remove the drivers are send them back to Vandersteen.

Model 3’s without the sock installed

Above is me testing them once I got the drivers back and re-installed.  Richard Vandersteen really is brilliant with this design.  Everything is well build but he saves so much money on the finishing just covering it with a sock and some fancy top and bottom plates!

Model 3's with sock installed
Model 3’s with a new sock installed

 

Above you see them under test after I installed the new socks and top and bottom plates.  They sound as good as ever even without proper placement.  Still working on getting this system back up and running.  I have some really nice vintage amplification going on them soon and my highly modified Rega P3 as the main source.

 

 

Roon Nucleus Plus Music Server

Does anyone out there have any experience with the Roon Nucleus Plus music server?  It looks like a really cool device!  I will be finally setting up a proper listening room in the coming months and I think the Roon music service really brings something to a digital collection. The server itself is kinda expensive and I can probably do the same thing under a Linux VM but sometimes it’s nice to just have something turnkey that just works without having to mess with it.  I think audio equipment should be that way so that is why I’m thinking about adding it to my setup.

If anyone has anything to say about this please chime in!