erik_squires
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| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? OP: To be clear, your speakers don’t exhibit what I'd normally call horn colorations. While not perfect, the overall response in the horn region is pretty smooth compared to say an old-school Altec. The complaint ASR makes is that the two drivers... | |
| Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing? Should have been more clear. Installers love them because it gives them the chance to balance speakers in different rooms, so this is really, IMHO more of a whole home audio kind of feature than it is something the average audiophile would use. | |
| Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing? @jl35 Not really surprised. For most of us, those level controls are just one more component for the signal to go through. | |
| Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing? Do you mean they have independent gain and level controls, or are you calling them the same thing?? A gain control on a preamp can be really great, since most have too much gain to be useful, and therefore too much noise. It could also change the... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? I should have been more clear. It sounds like a power supply or static electricity problem could be the root causes. Not exactly the same thing. A power supply issue means the parts responsible for maintaining the DC voltages constant are not. A s... | |
| What is going on here? Streamer or DAC? Use a free phone/laptop app, usually called Wifi analyzer or something like that to check that your Wifi broadcast is on an isolated channel and has strong reception. Often times routers bunch up on the first channel, which later gets congested wi... | |
| Balanced preamp with bass management Are you looking for balanced inputs, or a fully differential preamp?? | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming @mitch2 Yes, we do know. Fiber optic cables, lacking in any metal components, cannot transmit an electrical surge from point to point. For this reason I use a fiber converter between the cable modem and Wifi router. There are still potential pa... | |
| Subwoofer 101 Needed... OP: Some of the biggest improvements in clarity and imaging from adding a subwoofer happens from adding a high pass filter to the main speakers, so if you can I encourage it. 80 Hz is about as low as I'd go. Many audiophiles try to add a sub un... | |
| Subwoofer 101 Needed... Hey. Listen, the most important thing you need ot know is that the actual response of any speaker in the bass is a crap shoot. I mean it’s not very closely related to it’s specifications or settings anymore because the room/speaker interaction is ... | |
| Subwoofer 101 Needed... https://boomspeaker.com/subwoofer-qts-meaning/ My thoughts are to measure measure measure | |
| Shunt versus Ladder Passive Preamp? You might want to ask this question over in DIYaudio. | |
| Started with $1k speakers … what now? I just don't think the number we find in the used market is an indicator of value one way or another unless we take into account volume vs. say JBL or B&W or Martin Logan. | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? @toddalin That was my memory/expectation as well. | |
| Kenwood Super 11 has different internals than expected .. Well, it looks like the other online pics of the inside... what was it you needed done that has to wait? With a vintage piece like this replacing the power supply caps and local power decoupling caps is what you hope for, and those are pretty eas... |