erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Using non-terminated speaker wire? The biggest issue for me is that most speaker connectors come undone very easily. The lightest movement of the speaker cable, whether you use bare wire or a spade and the nut comes loose. For this reason and others I always prefer bananas and I l... | |
| Have JBL K2s...best Amp pairing please? If you didn’t like the Macs for being bright you’ll love the Luxmans. Excelellent extension on both bass and treble, tube like liquid mids and glass smooth treble. Very close to D’Agostino in sound characteristics. Not nearly as laid back as say P... | |
| Do sound characteristics matter when moving from midfi to hifi? Hypothetically, if going from Sony, Marantz, Schiit am I going to find something that I don’t like about Pass Labs, Conrad Johnson, Coda? Oh hell yes. :) I think that our industry pushes you to upgrade based on perceived value ($$$) instead... | |
| Klipsch vs B&W brightness These speakers are for kids. If you are really deaf you need Triangles. | |
| REW with subwoofers Weird I thought I answered this one last night. Check out the miniDSP application notes here and especially here. Also ask this in the REW forums and DIYaudio. | |
| External Speaker Volume Control Do the second amp. Not just about sound quality but reliability too. | |
| Long Run to Wall Plug vs Short Run to Conditioner? Short after conditioner. Reasoning: Noise pickup. A good conditioner removes audible noise and EMI/RFI as well from the AC signal. However this output is not guaranteed to stay clean. To ensure the signal stays clean you want a short and shielded... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? @taoist just reminded me. Used to live near Boston and used DirecTV. Lost a couple of DirecTV receivers, but it wasn’t actually to lightning. It was to wind storms. The wind would cross the surface of the antenna depositing an electron charge. It ... | |
| Cheap crimp connection vs. Solder No one should use a cheap crimp. However, there are good crimp attachments and tools and they are far better than solder for speakers. I say this as a speaker builder who also has 2 lbs. of Cardas solder under his workbench. I save the solder fo... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? A little off topic, but here’s a fun site if you like to look at the end results of electricity doing bad things. https://www.electrical-forensics.com/SurgeSuppressors/SurgeSuppressors.html | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Thread from 2020 | |
| Did I just cook my preamp? as it turns out as others have pointed out, no ground pin was removed and the amp is by design ungrounded. I agree it’s dangerous. Could you elaborate on what an outlet tester would tell me? A basic one would tell you if you if the wiring to t... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? It may help to preface this by saying I live in South Carolina near the ocean and we have severe storms roll through here yearly. For this and other reasons I'm paranoid about lightning protection. Yes, I turn off my power conditioners and som... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? @billpete The battery test will only tell you which way the woofer goes. It should move one way or another. The crossovers up above will filter DC and prevent you from learning much more. If you aren't getting much movement, consider a 9V ba... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? The inversion in the preamp happens when you have a single tube gain stage. The famous Conrad Johnson PV10 and related pres were the same way. CJs philosophy was to minimize circuitry as much as possible so an additional tube just for polarity inv... |