erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Restored Dual vs. Restored Technics Build wise, the old Dual won't perform nearly as well as a Pro-Ject. So, given a choice: Technics > Pro-Ject > Restored Dual | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? When were Snell A/IIIs made?? | |
| Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms? Hey @rvpiano - Your problems started about a week before the sun had a flare or coronal mass ejection. Also, they are bizarre, I have been thinking maybe what you had was some weird ground loop problem caused by the speaker amp and the sub amp b... | |
| Importance of clocking What about the clock accuracy releasing the buffer, then? I specifically addressed this in my first message. You literally can’t avoid jitter without buffering, but in the case of a network stream from outside the home having more "clocking"... | |
| Importance of clocking OP: Um, yeah, OK. I’m going to sit here and wait for you to explain to me how on earth you would even reclock a TCP/IP stream without actually buffering it. Just lemme know when you work out that mathmagic. Erik | |
| Surge protector @jea48 I use the Siemens BoltShield, and the reviews are much better. The complaints seem to be from defective units that are DOA or people misunderstanding how the indicators work. Seems a lot of people received pre-owned/defective units from A... | |
| Beryllium Tweeters Good AMT and ring radiators may sound good to you, but i find a lot of Be tweeters to be splashy and over saturated with color, so compared to that you may find a lot of designs to be underwhelming. | |
| Listening Room You want to minimize toe in and look for speakers with wide sweet spots. Also consider satellite/sub configurations or wall mounted speakers as well. Revel is a reasonably affordable brand that fits this description. Some of the mid-small size ... | |
| Surge protector Dammit, I did the Vrms to Vpk conversion wrong..... my bad! A 120Vrms has a Vpk of ~170V. Doh! It's been too long. | |
| Surge protector @jea48 - Class D amps may have a linear or a switch-mode supply in front of them. If linear, it’s just like any other amp and inrush current depends on whether the designer put an turn-on limiter on it or not. Larger amps really should have this ... | |
| Surge protector @ozzy I've had similar experiences with a whole house unit. The one piece of gear I lost was a laptop (Macbook Air with amazing battery life, so sad) which was the only piece of kit in my home that was not further protected by plug in strips. | |
| Surge protector @squared80 - For safety and reliability reasons whole house surge suppression units have a clamping voltage around 400V from neutral. I can tell you from personal experience they don't do great with sensitive electronics. Lets talk specs though:... | |
| Electric bill any high Check to make sure your fridge is closing correctly or that your freezer isn't slightly open. | |
| Sound Quality Also want to point out that at least in the early days, DSD promoters were caught cheating by juicing up DSD releases via significant added EQ. Also, while talking about DSD, please check out the small but mighty Blue Coast Records. | |
| Electric bill any high Unless you are now listening to music much more often this doesn’t make sense in light of what a whole house’s normal electrical use is. Streamer/DAC/preamp are all pretty low wattage appliances, though I think the Spectral could be a little high,... |