erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @glennewdick I’ve had both WBT and Furutech locking bananas. I’m not sure if the Furutech’s I got were fake or not but the WBT’s were absolutely better. The Furutechs were made of thick pot metal, deformed when expanded, and the diameter of the b... | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box While high pass filtering is a Plus option, with an abundance of speaker amplifier power the filtering is noticeably less desirable. Honestly disagree. There are measurements showing that less bass = less IM distortion from main speakers, an... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @hilde45 - I’ve never encountered one in the wild. I have no way of statistically examining a sample of every connection ever made to a speaker. All I can do is talk directly about my experience and I've never had a banana come loose just becaus... | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box I have had good success with 8" and 10" drivers and have no desire to go larger than that. In many rooms that may very well be ideal. While I could argue you'd get more out of a larger sub, there are dragons in the depths and not messing with ... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. Let me go a little Youtube snake oil on you all: With banana plugs the electricity doesn't bend!! The electrons coming off the wire keep going straight, ,but with spades it has to do a 90 degree turn!! Of course this affect sound staging because ... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. Oh, and PS, the contact area of a split banana is quite large. | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. BTW, I'm sure you can get good spades to stay tight... but if you ask me over all the time I've been working with speakers, plugging and unplugging them and troubleshooting them, bananas have been head and shoulders more reliable. | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @akgwhiz I remember asking for a no solder banana recommendation, and I might have even asked for a spade. Eventually I went with some affordable silver plated bananas recommended to me by another A'goner and they were perfect for the 12 and 10 ... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @tomic601 Brings up a good point, and that is that a lot of spades and the speaker connectors are not given a lot of thought. Focal for instance used nickel plated binding posts, which is a very hard material. Using it with hard spades results... | |
| Furman Upgrade to Niagra @navyachts To be honest I’ve stayed away from boutique noise protection. I’m afraid if you want to know about the effectiveness of devices like that you’ll have to ask others. What I can say is that series mode surge protectors excel in reducing ... | |
| Furman Upgrade to Niagra @classic8 because that requires real surge engineering chops. 🤣 Not to mention a willingness to undergo UL testing. Even when it comes to testing, in all my life I have seen exactly 1 article where surge protectors were actually tested with ... | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box @phusis I don't think we can entirely stop talking aobut potential solutions, whether that be my preferences, SWARM or a horn loaded woofer, because ultimately they all prove the idea that large drivers aren't fast is simply not the real problem. | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box @audiokinesis is not wrong, but the SWARM solution, like adding EQ, and traps, is probably NOT what audiophiles expect when they first think of adding a sub. SWARM and other approaches prove however that the issue is not the size of the sub but t... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @ghdprentice - TBH, I don’t care _that_ much about the subject, but a tight banana beats a loose spade every day of the week. 😁 The reason I thought to post this was I just realized how my connection problems went away when I switched to bananas.... | |
| Can I turn my 2-way Bookshelf speakers 90°…? PS- The limitation is with low-order crossovers. 4th order filters, rarely used in passive 2-ways, avoid this problem pretty much. |