erik_squires
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| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus The OP is probably not very technically savvy, but if he were I'd encourage him to open up a shell to his Nucleus and leave top running. See what takes time when things slow down, and how much RAM is being consumed. Also, be aware that solid s... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 Should have pointed out, another sign of poor room acoustics is not enough bass. The reflections accentuate the mid-treble significantly. Adding mid-treble absorbers fixes the imbalance and lets the bass bloom. | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 Hi OP, The harsh treble, especially when the volume goes up is often a sign of excess solid reflections. I'd suggest you consider your room and placement before starting to swap gear. Describe your room, amps and where in the room you put your... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? Furman P-2400 - 20A with built in voltage regulation, series mode protection and linear filtering. The one caveat is that for any power conditioner you run into the issue of attaching dirty power supplies to the clean side and re-polluting it, ... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I'll be done when I'm dead. :) I have a music and movie system I'm very happy with but as a builder and DIYer being done is like being dead. Even if it's a project every couple of years the passion to try something else will always be with me.... | |
| Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre? Read up on the Double Diamond circuitry, its the real deal Yes, I have, and while I do like the sound it's also IMHO kind of unique. so much so that I feel it's an amplifier that I might really like but not sure you would. What a differenc... | |
| Speaker internal amp shutting off due to heat What kind of monster can listen to music in 85 degrees?? Ok, seriously though, may just not be designed to run in such heat. Talk to ML and consider a fan on the back of the units. If they are 100% sealed they may do all their cooling through t... | |
| Mixing Crossover Caps..., What Would You Do??? What is the goal? Where is this cap used? | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Wow, I barely follow this thread but based on the A’gon headlines I’ve definitely learned that Danny Richie has a lot of opinions. | |
| ICEpower 125ASX2 front end I'm not sure... if you mean a preamp, then my experience with the ASP line was that they were a little on the warm side. Close to Parasound Halo, like the A23 but also good candidates for Parasound's P7, which worked REALLY well with mine. | |
| Ethernet Wiring I’m late to this discussion. Yeah, running Ethernet in a duct is probably not a great idea. My biggest issue is that when you have long runs of Ethernet they can inductively pick up a lightning surge. I recommend the use of medical grade (U... | |
| Network Switches I use fiber conversion but only to air-gap my cable modem from my router. This is mostly to deny lightning this path to all my expensive electronics in the house. It comes at a cost however in that I now have 2 additional power supplies to deal ... | |
| Network Switches My advice is that switches upstream don't matter. Bad power supplies do. Keep your networking power supplies (i.e. wall warts) off your clean power area. Use a separate conditioner if you need to, and consider using iFi power supplies for the... | |
| If there is one thing you could change in your current system. What would it be? Besides better organization of my living room the only gear I have seriously heard that was just so spectacularly better than current is perhaps the CAT preamp and Vandersteen amp. Yes, they make an amp. Besides that I’ve heard incremental diff... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Lets talk cheap big film caps for the bass section. A number of people I've trusted have reported positive experiences from switching caps from bipolar to film. I believe Solen has an even cheaper brand named Axon which is useful here. My one c... |