erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| lightning storm The Internet is filled with stories about lightning coming in via the cable modem and taking out entire HT systems via burned out Ethernet ports. Most Internet users rely 100% on Wifi, but for those of us who use it professionally or just don’t ... | |
| Extreme Toe In Not at all crazy, often recommended especially when side walls are close in. | |
| A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player? See if you can find a Parasound. Their DAC's and CD players always sounded really sweet to me. | |
| lightning storm Even when lightning does not directly strike a power line the magnetic pulse is picked up by every cable nearby, from high tension lines to your house wiring, antenna cables and Internet provider's wiring. We don’t always know when a surge will... | |
| Options to improve digital sound The CPU utilization of Roon is quite variable, and relative. The biggest challenges for Roon CPU are use of DSP and format conversion such as DSD to PCM or vice versa. It's also relative to the CPU that you have. Very low power CPUs as used in... | |
| OT: Espresso machines @kijanki - you are right about the paper filters, but apparently the oils they filter out are what makes coffee bad for your heart. If you drink filtered coffee coffee is generally good for you. | |
| Speaker crossover capacitor & inductors values: schematic & implementation? BTW, if you are doing this, get something like the Dayton Audio DATS. It's immensely useful for speaker diagnosis, part measurement and creating accurate schematics. | |
| Speaker crossover capacitor & inductors values: schematic & implementation? Let me add a little more... if I have a choice between a smaller coil with more DCR or a big coil and separate R I'll pick the smaller coil because coils handle high power better. | |
| Speaker crossover capacitor & inductors values: schematic & implementation? It has been suggested that when switching to low ESR film caps, to add some compensating resistance in series at the driver Well, the importance of this really depends. If this is in series with the driver, and the difference is < 0.3 Ohms ... | |
| Leave it on? Turn them off. Heat and cost matter. The exception to this is some Class D, like ICEpower which absolutely sound bad until they have warmed up for 2-4 days. Can't explain this in any logical way. | |
| Tripp Lite? In regards to Isobar surge protectors, I stand corrected... but!! It seems that this was a change I was not aware of. My bad for not keeping current. Based on help from ChatGPT, it seems Isobar models around 2015 did NOT have the shutdown featu... | |
| Don't try to fix these electrical prolbems with a conditioner! @wsrrsw - Excellent numbers. Now just watch it during the day. :) | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I'm kind of anti-competitive. I see speakers or gear on Stereophile and think "Wow, I've got a better sounding system than that and I only paid 10% of the cost!" | |
| Tripp Lite? OP: Let me geek a little more on Tripp Lite. I have 3-4 of the Isobar surge protectors. The big plus is the metal housing should be more or less immune to fires started by exploding MOV's, unlike a lot of plastic housed surge strips. The b... | |
| When using a power conditioner, why is it advised to run amps directly to the wall? PS - Worth checking your conditioner's voltage display with a reliable meter. While I trust them to be relatively accurate, in absolute terms I've seen them be 2-3V off. This is not usually a problem unless you are seeing values at the edges of... |