erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Unplugging power cords from amps/ pre amps Yes, either is fine. What wears when done too much is the springs in the female sockets, either on the wall or in the unit. Any unit with a remote or those with low and high power states may have current flowing but at such a low current it's re... | |
| My new B Stock speakers It's worth keeping an eye on MD, as they often have closeouts on brand new speakers. You can get some stellar deals. I think they also routinely carry Focal's closeouts as well. | |
| What's the value in lots of capacitors inside a line stage preamp? @noromance is also right. I looked at a pic of the inside, and even going back to the PV10, CJ uses capacitors which are just enormous. Film caps are larger than electrolytic but even among film capacitors there's large and then there's huge.... | |
| Would I benefit with Roon? I think among the best features of Roon is the music discovery and automatic metadata handling. The ability to integrate your personal library with your online libraries. DSP is of course good too. The downsides is another subscription, and tha... | |
| What's the value in lots of capacitors inside a line stage preamp? In a tube cap some of the most important caps are the coupling caps. They block DC but allow the signal to go through. Because all the signal goes through it their character can be the character of the preamp. Second are power supply caps. The... | |
| Why Preamps Thump on Turn on I am often reminded how difficult it is to write something that others find fun and engaging. | |
| Amp vs Preamp Depends how "juicy" your preamp is. An amplifier can be colorful, but it also has an interaction with the speaker load, so hard to drive speakers may sound very different depending on amplifier. Swapping out very neutral performing preamps may ... | |
| Pre Amp break-in balance issue This is not a break in issue, but sounds like a bad volume control. To be sure, swap cables to amp and see if channel problem moves also. | |
| Why Preamps Thump on Turn on Um..... | |
| Stack Audio Auva Isolator @wyoboy Coupling is relative. The ideal situation IMHO is to minimize transfer of sound to the floor AND minimize the back and forth motion of the speaker due to the woofer motion. Most of the acoustic coupling happens from the speaker panel... | |
| Using two Luxman integrated amplifiers together I think you should do this all as a personal experiment because I'm pretty sure you'd learn more than anyone here. There aren't really downsides, but I do find the SS preamp stage in Luxman integrated amps to be excellent performers, so I'd be cu... | |
| Crossovers? How do you evaluate if crossover is any good? Hey.... psst.... buddy, don’t you really want to make your own speaker?? You really do.... :D Check out Madisound or Parts Express for a number of pre-designed kits. The cabinet, drivers and crossover form an integrated system. Voicing is importa... | |
| Vacuum Tube preamp with my KRELL KAV 250a, a no no......WHY? FTR: When I mentioned that film caps get leaky, I meant the DC voltage leaked. This may have no visible effect. Electrolytic caps OTOH can literally leak, or blow open from internal gasses. | |
| Need some treble If there is a tape loop, put a Schiit Loki there | |
| Luxman M-10x and Banana Plugs @schelle100 From the picture it looks like the cover in the middle will come off. |