erik_squires
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| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? OP: Worth pointing out that most multiway speakers need to reverse the polarity on one driver or another. That's normal. By convention (but not requirement) the woofer is in positive polarity and then drivers above that may be flipped as nee... | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? PS - Rather than me try to describe this, why don't some of you try it? Reverse the speaker leads and tell me what you hear. :) | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? Wouldn’t my system sound terrible if I have the speakers wired out of phase? @immathewj Honestly no. Hahaha. You have to have a good trained ear. It just so happens I’ve run across 2 situations in a month at 2 different dealers where this happ... | |
| New split AC System impact on sound. Yes, overall in most areas I'm on team Heat Pump for the win! | |
| Speakers sound too bright. To test a speaker use a standard battery, 1.5 to 9v and connect to your speaker. positive to positive should move the woofers towards the listener. Most important is for both speakers to move the same way. | |
| Did I just cook my preamp? How the preamp became so suddenly hazardous is beyond me. This is exactly why I tell people not to ever remove a ground pin. What happens is, as an example, the amp shorts the chassis to a high voltage, anywhere from imperfect to solidly sho... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. Touch your woofers and make sure they are active. Just want to cover the possibility they are malfunctioning first. :) | |
| Did I just cook my preamp? Hey OP, I just ran upstairs to answer you. I’m not usually an alarmist but it sounds like you have a potentially dangerous situation here. It seems like 2 things have occurred: Equipment has had a malfunction shorting the power supply to t... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. Are you sure the rear jumpers are in? | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited please correct me if I misunderstood, but after each ethernet run to each of my two audio systems (one of them is over 40'), I have a short fiber-optic "moat" which gets reconverted to ethernet via etherregens before they enter the audio system; ... | |
| Bose Chucks Mac Guess Ill have to trade in my Toyota for a Jeep. 🤣🤣🤣 | |
| Need Roon Advice. I don’t like ARC due to possible security issues. Last thing I need is a third party opening up a port in my firewall they leave open to goodness knows what. I know my IoT devices do the same but they aren’t running a full OS capable of anything. ... | |
| New split AC System impact on sound. I think the main problem with oversizing your AC/heat pump is if it’s bigger than the house requires, it cools your home too quickly and cycles on and off too much instead of running for a longer duration. Right, and these short cooling cycl... | |
| New split AC System impact on sound. Forgot to address the power issues. Major appliances plus seasonal variability cause your AC to fluctuate in ways a dedicated line won't solve. I've been watching my incoming AC for at least a decade, in apartments, condos and now a detached hom... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited I do have a couple of tips. If using Ethernet over long runs (20’ or more) use an IEC 60601 certified isolator at the end of the run. It adds 4kV of surge protection. Don’t use shorting Ethernet surge protectors. EverStar is cheapest, TrippLite, ... |