erik_squires
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| Repair Used Focal Speakers With the speaker disconnected, gently move both woofers. See if the "good" and "bad" woofer move with the same degree of freedom. If the bad one feels in any way different, then that’s your answer. Make sure your amplifier is off for this, as amps... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Wow, for some one not here to fight you type with a lot of attitude. Let me rephrase my meaning in a kinder, gentler Erik in the hopes that any attitude present on my own writing is taken away.I only meant that if you need to upgrade a source comp... | |
| Upsampling - but seriously folks DSD is another thing. The noise performance of normal DSD is normally pretty poor compared to 44/16 PCM, so it may in fact be a very good thing to do. In this case the argument is entirely about noise performance.Who can hear it and when can they... | |
| Repair Used Focal Speakers Tone, so you have 2 woofers in the same speaker that are not operating the same way? Then it's likely to be a woofer problem, but it could also be a cabling problem. If you can, remove the back plate and look at the crossover. See if the woofer ... | |
| Upsampling - but seriously folks Jim,Well, it won't give you more data, but it may push any noise up a few octaves, whether you like that or notice it or not may have a lot to do with your DAC. There's no 1 way to do upsampling though. Of course, you can draw a line between samp... | |
| Repair Used Focal Speakers Focal is distributed in the US by Focal North America. You should look them up, but any Focal dealer should help you at least get repairs.If you try going directly to Focal NA it may help you to have the driver part number handy. They are more lik... | |
| Magico S1 Mk II - The First Review Thanks to measurements taken at the National Research Center of Canada I've been able to produce an updated critique here. In some ways I was right, in some ways not so much. | |
| Bookshelf speakers on a budget Want to build it yourself? The LM-1 or Jeff Bagby's Continuum are in your price range. Figure you'll end up with speakers worth $1,500 to $2,500 speakers for the same spend. I have no financial interest in you building either, but I did design th... | |
| Attack of the Clone Amplifiers I’m not sure it’s an input resistor or a 2:1 isolation transformer actually. The latter makes more sense and is more likely to warm up the sound. Good one’s are around $75 each from Jensen Transformers. I believe this is similar to what JR was doi... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Needed I'm a big fan of the Monitor Audio silvers, never heard a Zu. Also, the Wharferdale diamond series use remarkably good tweeters, and over at the DIY forums a couple of members have upgraded the tweeter caps and been very happy with the results. No... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD ctsooner kind of proves my point. :) That's a lot of upgrading to make a source sound good. I'm sticking to my Logitech Squeezebox until the Zombie apocalypse happens, thank you very much. Then I plan to walk into an empty audio store and pick u... | |
| Will an Isolation Transformer Help My Digital? I agree, it's more likely you have a bad device. This sounds like a digital power supply nearing the end of it's life. Getting a noise isolation device is just going to mask the problem until smoke comes out the top. :) Best,Erik | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Well, if we are now talking about what makes an upgrade expensive, I read online, but never verified myself, that B&W has a couple of very closely related lines. The higher end line is identical except for a Mundorf MKP replacing the default ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD So a couple of the worst sounding reproductions I’ve heard came from a Mac Mini. Not sure if it was really a Mac issue or coincidental. One was with the Oppo high end headphone DAC/Amp. The other was the sound of an Ayre QB-9. I love Ayre and the ... | |
| Attack of the Clone Amplifiers I bought a set of ICEpower 250's from Parts Express, I traded all my Parasound A23's out after listening. I couldn't hear a difference and the ICEPower units cost a lot less to run in a smaller space. I think that spoke well for Parasound AND IC... |