Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades
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Ron,
Make sure you test it on a scrap piece first and let it sit for a few days. Have you thought about a plain oil finish ie Watco satin oil or a mixture of boiled linseed oil and turpentine. Some use tung oil.
Good suggestion to test it first. I applied Watco satin oil on all of our old wide pine floor boards in our house, and linseed oil on all of the natural wooden doors. Both products are well absorbed into the wood and leave a very natural, resilient finish. Don't know if this is what Ron is after, but it may be worth comparing to the product he found.
Thank you, Roger and Peter!
Bonnie visited me on Tuesday and suggested that I put sound absorbing foam on the ceilings, backs and sides of the cabinet compartments into which new kitchen freezer, refrigerator and wine refrigerator will be inserted. I would love to do this but, unfortunately, the cabinets are already fabricated and installed and there is no additional clearance around the appliances to accommodate the sound absorbing foam.
But I ordered a variety of weight-load selected rubber hemispheres and discs from Sorbothane to place under the feet of each of the noisy appliances. That should help a little bit.
Bonnie visited me on Tuesday and suggested that I put sound absorbing foam on the ceilings, backs and sides of the cabinet compartments into which new kitchen freezer, refrigerator and wine refrigerator will be inserted. I would love to do this but, unfortunately, the cabinets are already fabricated and installed and there is no additional clearance around the appliances to accommodate the sound absorbing foam.
But I ordered a variety of weight-load selected rubber hemispheres and discs from Sorbothane to place under the feet of each of the noisy appliances. That should help a little bit.
At David’s suggestion I have put on hold the idea of ordering two heavy duty custom Herzan stands for components other than the turntable. It would be nice to have three matching stands, rather than the Nothing stand on the left supporting the turntable and a Herzan stand in the middle and a Herzan stand on the right side.
So depending on the reduced cost of David’s aluminum stands compared to the steel stand for the turntable I would consider three matching Nothing stands.
So depending on the reduced cost of David’s aluminum stands compared to the steel stand for the turntable I would consider three matching Nothing stands.
Good advice but I wouldn't worry much about it with the quality appliances that you're purchasing
!david
Did you try pure Tung Oil Ron? It has no varnish to make things shiny, doesn't discolor and leaves the wood with a natural feel to touch when it dries. The only reason to use stain is change the color of your wood panels otherwise you don't need any type of stain.
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No, I did not try that David. That would have been a great solution when I was in the mindset of keeping the walnut completely natural.
Now that I have switched to the idea of staining the walls grey, I am happy with the Gris Belge color I have been playing with.
Now that I have switched to the idea of staining the walls grey, I am happy with the Gris Belge color I have been playing with.
Got it, then the all stainless Nothing Racks will match your room more and more
!david
Ron, you and my Ra are "siblings in arms" LOL. She spent what seemed like months choosing paint colors for the chapel.
In the main space especially, at 35x30x20, that's a LOT of visible wall surfaces.
Every single white we looked at either had too much grey or pink in it.
It drove her, and our decorator, to mental distraction.
Finally, at about the nineteenth swatch in, her search was over, and she found the white she wanted, and that we used.
So when I told her of your restless search, she smiled and understood.
Even the grey in my listening space took some finding. We got it right, and I'm sure you will too.
In the main space especially, at 35x30x20, that's a LOT of visible wall surfaces.
Every single white we looked at either had too much grey or pink in it.
It drove her, and our decorator, to mental distraction.
Finally, at about the nineteenth swatch in, her search was over, and she found the white she wanted, and that we used.
So when I told her of your restless search, she smiled and understood.
Even the grey in my listening space took some finding. We got it right, and I'm sure you will too.
Thank you for conveying, Marc! Please give my best wishes — and sympathy — to Ra!
Actually, the first thing I discovered is that swatches alone will drive you completely crazy; they should be used only for getting a rough sense of colors to identify actual paint samples to try.
The second thing I learned is that small (a few cm by a few cm) single areas of actual paint color test samples for each color painted on the wall are very misleading.
The third thing I learned is that large (1 meter tall and .5 meter wide) single areas of actual paint color test samples painted on the wall and compared under artificial light are misleading and will get you confused.
The fourth thing I realized is that you must paint large areas of at least two walls in the same room with the competing colors side by side to really see how each color reads when hit with only natural daylight at different angles and at different times of day! Only then will you know what each color truly looks like in situ!
Whites and greys definitely are extremely confusing! White can lean (at the least) blue, beige, green, yellow, or grey, and thus can read “cold” or “warm.”
For white, for the entire interior, we will select a common contemporary white typically called “Designer White” which reads a little bright and leans a touch blue and therefore looks a shade “cold” versus a more neutral white.
What can we do when the Benjamin Moore fan book has about 100 shades of each color?!?!
I really like the grey you selected for your listening room. What brand of paint and color name and sheen (gloss, semi-gloss, eggshell, matte, etc.) did you use?
I'll get back to you on that.
Ra doesn't do sympathy, just good beer, she says it makes all the stress of things just dissolve away.
Ra doesn't do sympathy, just good beer, she says it makes all the stress of things just dissolve away.
I should have thought of that before we finalized the measurements for the cabinetry containing the freezer and the refrigerator.
Just joking Ron. Site does not have the option of smileys right now ! But i’m sure Stacore would love if we all use them under our appliances.
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