erik_squires
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| Best Capacitors for Crossovers But also, most caps take 24-48 hours to finish breaking in. | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers If you are going to compare caps, I would use screw in terminals or even speaker binding posts. You'll definitely hear relative differences that way. | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers Ozzy, Possible but unlikely. Avoid shortening the leads, and make sure your iron is hot enough, and the tip wide enough. Melting solder should take like 5 seconds or less! If you are sitting there for half a minute waiting for solder to melt, the... | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers Hey @dgarretson When will CSA range become available in the US? I'm happy to note the CMR is already orderable from Parts Connexion.Best,Erik | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers While I admire technology, I believe in results. I can take pretty much any DAC chip, put it on a circuit board and make it sound like garbage. Same for most technology. Beryllium tweeters, AMT, etc. can be implemented well and poorly. I think kno... | |
| Dipole Asymmetry @cleeds time.You need about 15 ms between the direct signal and first strong reflections so your brain builds up the image and tonal characteristics of the music without significant blurring and smearing. At about 1ft per millisecod, 5ft x 2 = 10... | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. I’m not sure about the nCore, but as for the ICEPower units, I would say that’s true, they really don't add anything to the signal so if you need warmth or liquidity added these are b. .... however.... Using my current reference speakers I could n... | |
| Dipole Asymmetry I agree that is pretty close to the rear wall. Solutions would be acoustic panels from GIK Acoustics.Also, put a panel between the speaker and the rack. It won't be ideal, but much better. :) | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers @grannyring Thanks for that. I've been seriously considering the Jupiter line, especially since Soniccraft has them on sale often. I have a pair that sounds very nice, but I am thinking about completely re-doing the crossover design, and Jupiter c... | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers You might want to try DIYAudio, but in the "affordable" boutique crossovers my favorites so far: Clarity MR (now CMR) Clarity ESAMundorf MKPMundorf SupremesYeah, I list the Supreme’s lowest due to an artificial Disney-like sheen or scintilation. I... | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. I found your comments about frequency response interesting. That would imply that they have high output impedance (or low damping factor) which they do not, by themselves have. Tube amps of course tend to behave this way. If you can point me to an... | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. By the way I’m not a huge NAD fanboy. I really like nCore, and ICEPower though. The NAD DACs I’ve heard were not to my taste, but damn, I like the look and modular concept of their processors. :) Arcam is also nice, but not a very good track recor... | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. Multichannel amps are usually compromised some way. From limited power outputs, inter-channel crosstalk, heat generation and disspation and yes, the shared power supplies. Especially if we are talking 7 channel outputs. Otherwise, you get into rea... | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. One other question, are those speakers one's y ou own or are thinking about? | |
| Need Advice on Multi-channel Amp Choices. Do you have good room treatment? Especially important with subs. I am usually suspicious of multi-channel amps, especially if linear. If I had to go with a single multichannel amplifier the NAD M27 is one of the few I'd be serious about. |