A good friend let me borrow his PS audio Stellar P3 for the last two weeks, as I was on the fence for a good two years on how to best approach power issues
Despite what some have said, you know who you are, 75 pounds in this form factor is not easy to move around. I need to wait on a friend to help get it onto the shelf in place of the Stellar P3 this weekend.
Glad this worked out, the Stellar P3 was a game changer for my system and this will let me run all my gear and not worry about running out of watts or outlets!
Needed to balance my chair/headphone time with woods/binoculars time!!
After a LOT of research and trying different brands I decided on these…love 'em so far!
Northing changed in my system other than using the powerplant, except the P3 only had six outlets and limited to 300 watts of power consumption. My integrated amp is 320 alone, so could not have other pieces connected and running. For a DAC, turn table, and headphone amp this is not much of an issue.
I am not following you on this, to pass on clean power to my gear?
Got some new feet for my Tyrs. Took off the front two feet on both amps and replaced them with these, then placed a third in the back middle on each amp. Can’t really say I noticed a sonic difference, but I have noticed both Tyrs are a bit cooler to touch and the mechanical hum seems a little less noticeable.
I get it man. I needed help from my wife moving my 70lbs IA. You only have one back and everyone I know over 50 just talks about how much theirs hurts all the time.
I see now, well I wrote about it in more detail in the PS Audio thread over the last few weeks. Here is a good place to start as I had to deliberate on what to plug into it given the limited outlets and power capacity;
Be patient and read through, as others gave me good advice on how to approach it. I was skeptical but knew I had a power issue which needed to be addressed is the bottom line.
Hope this helps, if not let me know and happy to respond. Best to move it over there so we don’t derail this show and tell thread.
Thank you for saying the obvious, my back has already been through some hell along with some other physical issues I won’t bore the others with. I am happy I could get it situated and not have to wait until the weekend when I could grab a friend to help out.
This is current backlog from years ago… and that is after I sold a lot of the kits I didn’t care about. I have about another 60 fully built kits, straight builds and probably a dozen or so full custom builds chilling in hobby room.
Currently I’m in a holding pattern where I haven’t actually worked on a kit in several years due to spacing restrictions in my current house.
The problem with plastic modeling, or to be more exact my problem with plamo is that I went balls deep in the hobby over the course of 4-5 years, started paying super close attention to all the pro builders both in China and Japan, as well as here in the states, reading specialized books and watching all the high level content on plamo. I could tell that I was getting really good at it and that I was absorbing techniques and different methods for custom builds at a really fast clip.
The thing is once you get to this sort of level it is hard to go back to straight builds, not to mention it gets more expensive then you think. Multiple airbrushes, more paint then you have ever seen in your life of various brands, tools upon tools upon tools. so many tools lol chisels different scribers of various thickness, plastic styrene and several over kinds of raw plastic for scratch building, glues for everything, like seriously 10 types of glue. a ridiculous amount of blades and hobby knifes and well as hand brushes for detailing. custom paint booths, bigger custom paint booths when you inevitably outgrow the old one, ventilation for said paint booths. specific tools for every little thing. At on of other shit I spent a fortune on that I can’t remember now there is also buying extra copies of kits just to use as kit bash fodder.
I basically got to the point where I needed several rooms in my home purpose built for the hobby, especially for painting. A lot of the model paints are very bad for you and the volumes I was spraying I really needed/want a full room ventilation system separate from everything else to do it properly/safely.
So I guess the moral of the story is watch out, don’t get too deep haha Although I still love it a lot and I do plan on one day being able to do all this again at the scale I want to, maybe.
Also it’s been a while since I’ve posted in here, got about 900 posts to read… very unlikely sorry Work is finally slowing again though. I don’t have anything audio related to share but I did recently buy one of these
Getting obsessed with Eink and Epaper tech in the last year, decided to get a separate device from my main Ereader that I use for books. This is basically marketed as a Epaper tablet PC that can be used to replace or in tandem with a traditional tablet/laptop for different productivity tasks but without the eye strain of traditional screens. It is a color implementation as well which really pops and makes a lot of difference when browsing and uses a wacom layer for note taking and annotations. I’m mainly gonna be using it for eye strain free browsing and typing as well as taking more hand written notes. Also some reading both novels and manga when at home since it’s not really meant for ultra portable Ereading like my Boox Nova Air is.
Its so common with hobbies that the better you get the more you need to dive into it fully and dedicate time, space, money to it. Well time comes with it, thats why its a hobby. But even cars, to avoid audio, there is a sudden cliff to the investment, then the space to work on it or keep it nice, then the tools etc etc. Keyboards too, you start on one and now you want to go deeper, do more, try out what higher end models do, and bam you have shelves of keyboards. Woodworking is another one where there is a tool, finish, method for everything but you need a garage dedicated to it.
Please feel free to share photos of completed models in an off topic thread. This is absolutely an audio site but sharing of other hobbies and talents is much appreciated and keeps us coming back for more
Feels like Christmas this week, I must say Pete at TWL was great to interact with and help me decide on some power cable pairings. I call this the TWL starter pack, next month will get another pack of cables from him if these work out well.
thankfully I have zero temptation to get that far with this hobby most of the joy I’m finding in this hobby so far is the building process just simply snapping together a kit is thankfully satisfying me and just appreciation custom builds from afar is nice.
. Enjoy your new toy!
there is also buying extra copies of kits just to use as kit bash fodder.
Work is finally slowing again though. I don’t have anything audio related to share but I did recently buy one of these
This is absolutely an audio site but sharing of other hobbies and talents is much appreciated and keeps us coming back for more 
