Seems to have been an explosion of threads about turntables since the Naim announcement

Should a grand piano and drum kit sound bigger than everything else? If Baldrick played his triangle how big should that be?

I think those stainless steel balls are too thin walled (1mm) to be any good unfortunately.

Found some 38cm (15") stainless steel balls on Amazon. Slightly too big but wow. They do smaller ones too. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Tlhx0QU%2BL._AC_SL1001_.jpg Stainless is hard to work and don't know it's acoustic properties. The listing doesn't give a wall thickness....

Making a thinner faceplate. Sheet copper, brass or aluminum can be had in thicknesses of 0.4mm and 0.5mm. That should be strong enough for my needs. I have some 0.7mm copper sheet. Will the extra 0.3mm thickness matter in the grand scheme of things ? Copper isn't the easiest metal to work with but c...

Gone off that idea as it is bound to affect the dispersion and act as a sort of waveguide. Probably ok if you were making a point and squirt controlled directivity speaker. That's not what I am doing here :naughty: I am trying to do it in a way that means I can do away with the face plate altogether...

CycleCoach wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:53 pm Can't see the pic Stu.

Very odd, I could see it in chrome but not bing. It was a copy image address from diyaudio. Imgur would not upload it for a while but I have managed to upload it there now and replace the address. You should be able to see it in my last post now.

Smooth from dome to edge of faceplate and nicely rounded over. This sort of thing could be done and blend in with the curve of the spherical enclosure. Like a donut cut in half. https://i.imgur.com/f6Mk4Gm.jpg Just don't know what will happen unless I tried it. How would dispersion be affected ?? I ...

One more thing I have noticed after removing the faceplates and improving diffraction is that sibilants are less pronounced. Not that they were a problem before but they sound more natural now. Some Stevie Wonder recordings emphasise sibilants and they are more rounded now.

Over the 15 years I have been reading audio forums, articles etc on the internet I have often come across comments like "I didn't like speaker x because the trumpet image was 6ft tall or wide" I have never listened for such things in a recording. I have been listening for it recently thoug...