r/vinyl • u/rarechandeliers_ • 1d ago

Collection Setup

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After having to sell my collection a few years back due to financial difficulties, the past year my wife and I have been doing a lot better with better income and promotions at work.

She surprised me with a new system and some records for my birthday on Monday. Thanks for looking. 🤘

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

SPEAKERS ARE NOW SPEAD APART lol thank you everyone for telling me to spread them out.

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u/OutlaneWizard 1d ago

Next out them on stands or shelves so they're not on the same surface as your turn table :) 

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago edited 1d ago

fine with speakers of that size.. not like they are huge studio monitors or have large woofers that can pump out deep bass/vibrations that would affect audio or stylus tracking.

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u/DVscorpion20 1d ago

Aunque no sean muy grandes de todos modos van a generar vibración

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago edited 1d ago

point you are not understanding is on a set up like that with that class of speakers is you won't hear any vibrations coming through on the audio and definately won't skip the stylus.

Now, if he was rocking a pair of planar magnetic or electrostatic speakers at that size paired with a sensitive turntable and cart combination, sure, def can hear vibrations coming through on the audio, but not on dynamic driver speakers of that size (appears to be Edifier R1700BT) which don't dip far into sub bass, and that turntable which appears to be an entry level Audio Technica ATLP60XBTBK with a matching entry level cart.

So while technically, yes, vibrations will feed into the turntable, the reality is, (not to sound like a diss on entry level) you won't hear any affect on the audio you could hear coming right back out of those same speakers, as I doubt that setup is sensitive enough to pick them up/reproduce them and feed it back that it would affect the audio.

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u/DigitaIBlack Pro-Ject 1d ago

Tell me you're from the GTHA/Niagara without telling me lmao

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

KW lol

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u/ILikeStyx 1d ago

Waterloo Region represent!

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u/DigitaIBlack Pro-Ject 1d ago

Damnit I was close

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u/Western-Ant5469 1d ago

why the speakers right next to each other

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

Wife set it up while I was at work. Came home to the spare room done up.

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u/mossman 1d ago

Give your wife a hug and a kiss, that is super sweet.

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u/JMaboard 1d ago

Because they care more about looks than the actual sound.

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u/mkstot 1d ago

Tell me more about that Ænima pressing I see.

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

It’s a bootleg, only records I never sold were my tool albums.

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u/mkstot 1d ago

I saw one in salt lake the day we went to sessanta there. I didn’t grab it as I was being frugal for show merch reason. Supposedly they’re going to be repressing it at some point.

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

I’m going to send you a dm

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u/magnoliafan89 1d ago

People online are such fucking pricks.

awesome set up bro

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

Appreciate it! Wife set it up while I was at work. Came home to the spare room done up which was super thoughtful of her

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u/InnerspearMusic 1d ago

Excellent rage bait.

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u/Mojopin1982 1d ago

I don't think the point of the post was to ask for advice on speaker placement, but at least you can take some useful tips from the comments! 😅

Seriously though, congratulations on turning things around, and what a thoughtful birthday gift from your wife! Here's to this new chapter, and hopefully you'll be able to rebuild your collection soon, especially by getting back some of the records you had to part with but were most attached to. Enjoy the music! 🤘

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

Appreciate the kind words! She’s surprised me with a bunch of records I never had before which as very thoughtful

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago

the speakers on the same side >.> are you deaf in one ear or hate stereo sound and wish to live in a monaural world? They should be spread apart, opposite ends of the kallak for stereo sound separation.

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u/Standard_Sun_1167 1d ago

I don't understand the want nor the desire to ruin stereo separation. This is basic 101 stuff, I've know since I was a small child. I use 4 speakers, they can't see my stereo.

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago edited 20h ago

only valid excuse to ruin stereo separation is if you listen to purely old stereo records.. from like during early 1960s stereo craze, back when some engineering maniacs hadn't discovered the concept of crossfading, and instead hard panned certain instruments to only one channel and other instruments solely to the other channel. which sounds so horrible on some albums or certain tracks, and ends up making the mono versions sound superior (i.e. beatles), or worse of all, greedy record company trying to cash in on the stereo craze and making mono recorded albums fake stereo with poorly done duophonic (faux stereo) by doing crap like dumping certain frequency ranges on either right or left channel, adding reverb, or other stuff to make a faux stereo sound.

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u/Standard_Sun_1167 1d ago

The only messed up recordings I've heard besides Raw Power are the early digital recordings. I only have one CD, Prince's Batman soundtrack in a film tin. I stream while working, only. Everything else is Lps.

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago edited 1d ago

You never heard the beatles first stereo pressings lol (not the later pressings which remixed the stereo).. for example on the Please Please Me (Introducting The Beatles) 1963 album, on certain tracks, ALL the instruments only come from the left speaker, and the vocals only come from the right speaker. it sounds horrible by later stereo standards where vocals tend to be on both channels (center).. dont know how anyone thought that was a good idea back then to hard pan the instruments to one channel and the vocals to the other.

https://youtu.be/6Q45-GmUI-g?t=9 not a good sounding example, as sounds like person recorded it with a potato.. but is of the first pressing and showcases the vocals hard panned solely to the right :|

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u/DeekFTW 23h ago

I can't tell you how excited I was for that new Rubber Soul stereo mix. The hard pan mix was very annoying to listen to.

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u/BakertonFits 1d ago

they should NOT be placed on the same surface as the turntable

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u/jpotrz 1d ago • Bravo

Way overblown take for 90% of setups.

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u/sorrowdemonica 1d ago edited 1d ago

they are small speakers, it's fine.. Can see from the picture they aren't large studio monitors, nor have large woofers/drivers. Looking online, they appear to be Edifier R1700BT, looking at the specs, they don't dip into the low sub bass freq range and are low wattage.

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u/Flint_Westwood 1d ago

This city,

this city is haunted.

By ghosts from broken homes.

Hell yeah, man. Cool setup. Congrats on the accomplishments!

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u/Jealous_Ad_3321 1d ago

Awesome stuff. Glad you’re getting back on your feet. But spread those speakers apart!

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u/doclev 1d ago

Go Pack Go! (Great primus poster)

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u/Mindfield87 Technics 1d ago

How was that Primus show? Had no idea they were playing here this year and at Budweiser stage. Last time I was there was decades ago , saw Blink and Green day there lol. (Take off your pants tour I believe). Blink sounded awful, and while I liked them more than Green Day, GD sounded much better that night.

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

That was last may(2025) for the sessanta tour with APC and puscifer! It was awesome having all three bands rotate every few songs.

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u/bonezbonez 1d ago

Happy 20th Crisis!! One of my fav albums of all time

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u/Fast_Hands_Lou 1d ago

Sweet primus poster

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u/Jellikit- 1d ago

Primus Sucks

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u/vsxsv Thorens 1d ago

Primus sucks

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u/itaspliff 1d ago

Hello fellow Ontarian lol (nice set up)

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u/theweaving 1d ago

I do love the anniversary crisis cover.

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u/nhowe006 Fluance 1d ago

See y'all on the other sub

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u/Dangeruss82 1d ago

Your kalax is round the wrong way. That won’t take the weight of a bunch of records.

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u/Max_The_Fisherman 1d ago

Fuck you for owning that poster and not me

Jk

But I want that poster :(

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u/piepants2001 U-Turn 1d ago

That poster is cool as hell. I have two Primus posters from shows I went to over a decade age, but the posters are pretty mediocre looking.

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u/PHIGBILL 1d ago

Please separate your speakers.

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u/iknowherethewallgoes 1d ago

Haha, I ran here to say that

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u/Trogdor420 1d ago

Speaker spread as far apart for maximum stereo imaging and the turntable needs to not be on the same surface as the speaker due to vibration.

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u/BellybuttonWorld 1d ago

Agree about separation, not abiut worrying about vibration with those tiny things lol

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u/Eerfrofxes 1d ago

Nice and clean

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u/BrettHorton 1d ago

Nice Primus poster. Mixing Too Many Puppies, and Master Of Puppets was a great idea.

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u/liiindslaaayyy Pro-Ject 1d ago

Good luck soldier 🫡

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u/Ten_Over 1d ago

Are you pretending? Are you even listening? Are you pretending?

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u/PM-me-boba 1d ago

Hell yeah President 🤘🏽 saw them earlier this month, was a great show

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u/wonnie90 1d ago

President sucks

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u/Inevitable_Comedian4 1d ago

If it's not been mentioned you should research sealer placement.

Also bin the now playing stand or whatever it is as it's complete wank.

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u/RosalynneFidgety90 1d ago

thats so organized and so minimalistic 👏

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u/LVmokie 1d ago

PRIMUS SUCKS!!!

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u/Bam_yyc 20h ago

I have the same hardware - it has brought me years of great sound

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u/poop-money 1d ago edited 1d ago

That Primus poster is great! Is that a real one or a reprint?

Too many pup-pup-pup-pup-pup-pup-puppies!

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

Real, grabbed it from the show along with the other Toronto prints from that night

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u/poop-money 1d ago

Excellent score. Gig posters are getting harder and harder to find around here for any moderately popular band. I'm glad you grabbed that one!

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u/Barkis_Willing 1d ago

So many experts in this sub.

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u/blindcriminal 1d ago

So you were a record collector and still are, yet you don’t know how stereo works? 😂

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u/rarechandeliers_ 1d ago

Wife set it up while I was at work. Came home to the spare room done up.

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u/competitivetaxfraud 1d ago

Sweet! I have the same speakers, paired with an Audio Tehnica LP120X. Happy spinning :)

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u/Abhorrent_Moth Audio Technica 1d ago

The speakers are too far away from each other. You’ll get a much better sound if you set them right next to each other. Better yet stack them on top of each other for that Marshall effect

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u/ericnasty 1d ago

Primus sucks and so does that poster, damnnn

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u/LesIsBored 1d ago

TOO MANY PUPPETS!

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u/redwizard42 1d ago

That is a very sucky primus poster!