erik_squires
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| Voltage regulator in the power chain Jim, That's how I did it with my 2 Furman units. The first was the voltage regulator, and the power conditioners plugged into that, however the Furman has 5V granularity. Your unit has 15V so it's not usually going to be helping you, as much as j... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? There’s no one right answer anymore. The biggest issue with on/off cycles was the initial current surge that goes through the transformer and power supply capacitors. They are much better now than 40 years ago, and many amp makers have added soft-... | |
| Improving 2- Channel Soundstage Properly set up electrostatics throw a huge sound field. There's no reason at all you should be forced to supplement them with an extra speaker. The advice is still solid, but you should need less of it to the sides and above/below. Behind however... | |
| No can understand.... Disconnect your L and R speakers and listen. How does it sound to you? You may actually have a bad amp or a bad speaker. Best,Erik | |
| Improving 2- Channel Soundstage Hi,There’s three things to tryElectronicsAcoustically Speaker adjustment. I think acoustics and speaker placement is where you should go first. I find that if your imaging is lacking you need to add acoustic damping in that dimension. For instance... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? agear,I think the state of our socialized knowledge is something like this:There are plausible reasons why vibration reduction could work in solid state gear. A) Microphonics in the components, or B) You are actually hearing the preamp/DAC, etc. m... | |
| Voltage regulator in the power chain I saw a review on that voltage regulator. It's fine, but really coarse. If you don't need it, I'd take it out of the system. I'm a little surprised you don't also have mechanical hum from it. :) It seems to have only 3 states: Boost 15V, buck 15V,... | |
| Explain to me dsd @kalali I think most people use a variety of ways to get music. The biggest reason for buying in addition to subscribing, which I do, is to have the highest quality possible. Most streaming services provide heavy compression. Tidal's best resoluti... | |
| Sub woofer GIK Acoustics has very good value, and give great advice. I'd talk to them, they have a request page you can upload photographs of your space to and drawings and they will help you within your budget. Best,Erik | |
| Sub woofer How about room acoustics? :) That's really the bigger issue. If buying new, I'd buy a Hsu sub for $1k and spend the remaining $1k on room acoustics. | |
| Doubling a Set of Speaker Cables So make yourselves happy, but it's quite possible that doubling speaker cables is also doubling cable capacitance, and I'm not sure about inductance. Anyone who wants to measure this realatively cheaply may wish to acquire a Dayton DATS V2. Fairly... | |
| Music Server format? By the way, you can build your own linux music server (minus DAC) for around $650 for a 2TB system. Using Logitech Media Server and Squeezelite you can get iPad/Android support as well. I use it with a DSD capable DAC and play PCM and DSD just fi... | |
| Surround speaker upgrade Hey,So different pro's have different capabilities. Some let you set the crossover point differently for different speakers, some do not. That's fine. Yes, processors MUST let you set distance and volume independently. The power difference isn't ... | |
| Surround speaker upgrade I am not going to suggest you upgrade to other Focals, that’s for sure. :) How are you configuring the surrounds though? I only have really 2 full range speakers, and the rest are satellites, but I can cross them over fairly well at 80 Hz. My main... | |
| Surround speaker upgrade I should also point out that manufacturers have a vested interest in di/bi-polar surrounds. Having twice the drivers they often cost twice as much. Fortunately most buyers felt they were gimmicky too and most of these have gone the way of "smell-o... |