erik_squires
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| B&W Nautilus 800 vs 802D If you like the 802s.....Listen to Golden Ear, Triangle and Thiels. Also check out the new Sony speakers, They will be along, but not exactly, like what you seem to like. You may also like to listen to modern Monitor Audio, which are definitely go... | |
| Conversion to DSD: Does It Eliminate Digital Glare? @mahler123 nails it. I have the Brooklyn. There’s no glare in any format. They all sound good. What I did noticed with my previous dac is that a Remedy Reclocker improved the top octave resolution. The RR re-clocks everything to 96/24. After audit... | |
| Review: Wyred4Sound Remedy Reclocker One thing not enough consumer device makers test for is heat. Wonder what your ambient temp was?? :)Erik | |
| The best Standmount Loudspeaker $6k or under Glad you are happy! :) Interesting. He's using series crossovers instead of the more common parallel types. Best,Erik | |
| Polarity of speaker drivers Forgot to mention, you can experiment with full-range drivers, those that have no crossover, relatively cheaply. Madisound is selling a complete kit on sale. Some people get a couple of hits of that and never look back to multi-way speakers again. | |
| Polarity of speaker drivers @sbank is right. However, that not every speaker maker has adopted time and phase matched designs should tell you something about how important it seems. If time coherence was that revolutionary no one would be able to sell any other kind of speak... | |
| I NEED AN AMP!! BUT WHAT?? HELP PLEASE!! Parasound A21 would have gobs of power and may sound a lot warmer to you than the Brystons. Very quiet, very good sounding, and reasonably priced.If you must go expensive, try out Rowland's own amps. | |
| Input/Output line level transformers for digital glare If these are Jim Thiel era- Thiels, then I'm quite sure what the problem is. Your hearing is far too good for your age. You either have to get an excessively warm/mellow DAC's like the ARC DAC 8, more neutral speakers like modern Monitor Audio, or... | |
| Polarity of speaker drivers glai,Not by 90% of listeners, no. There are some who claim to be able to hear this difference, and I cannot prove if they can or cannot. All I can say is I most definitely cannot. What all listeners could hear is if the drivers are not matched pro... | |
| speakers for listener with Tinnitus +1 on EQ/tone controls as being your starting point. You really should figure out exactly what you need first, before doing speaker trading. You can do this most easily with an EQ. THEN worry about getting all audiophile about the speakers. | |
| Help, my system sounds lifeless! While some room treatments are really expensive, meant for the custom installers who are building million dollar listening rooms, GIK is not only quite affordable but effective. So much so that I wouldn't make my own.Best,Erik | |
| Balanced power and 2 prong plugs I hear you. The Equitech will reduce noise just as much for 2 prong as 3 prong devices. I can't afford anything that expensive, so I use Furman with LiFT instead. It's effective enough, and expensive enough for me. :) Best,Erik | |
| Capacitor pricing George, don't leave us hanging. What are the brands you think are the same?One of the "tells" for me is the 7.5uF caps, which AFAIK only Solen/SCR makes. | |
| Capacitor pricing @georgelofi Solen = SCR = Axon. Axon is essentially the middle of the road Solen for half price. Focal and others do seem to source their caps from them.However, I would only use an Axon as a bypass. The middle to low end Solen’s are, to my ears, ... | |
| Do all tube preamps leak DC? Well then, I stand corrected! :) As I said, it's been a very long time, and quite possible I'm confusing the behavior of electrolytics. :) Good to have those with more and more current experience here to correct me. Best,Erik |