erik_squires
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| Power supply for ethernet switch? Ethernet jitter has nothing to do with DAC jitter. Or should not. The reason is buffers built into the streamers, which may hold several seconds worth of music. The buffer's output is doled out by the DAC chip itself on demand. Even a loss of ... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? Another 4 year old thread resurrected. | |
| Furman IT Reference 20i PC price differences No idea but get the cheaper one. :) Furman is often on sale depending on where you look. Nothing wrong with them. I would suggest the 15i is the right size for most. Also, this model is substantially cheaper. It does not have balanced outputs bu... | |
| Speaker hum from Subwoofer Well, that's interesting, Luxman has gone to using a grounded AC socket, and no longer carries the double insulated label. | |
| Power supply for ethernet switch? Hey @amtprod , Furman units with SMP are series mode surge protectors. Like ZeroSurge or Brickwall. What they all have in common is they have a low pass filter at the start of the surge protection circuit, which is another word for "noise filte... | |
| Cannot do 5.1 then does 3.1 make a difference or just stick to 2.1? This thread was started in 2018. Since then in a variety of threads I've written about this. The biggest benefit of a center is off-center listening. If you sit in a narrow window in front of the TV then the center is a lot less beneficial than... | |
| ACURUS A 125 Amp Speaker protection question The devil is in the details. In older designs there was circuitry between the output transistors and the speakers which did current sensing and the like which would disconnect the outputs. Note that this is different from the RC network used to pr... | |
| Which inexpensive speaker cables... Mogami | |
| Such Great help before. Maybe some more help now Sounds like a really great setup. I don't think you can do much better, but many audiophiles get bored with "great" and start experimenting. The tone controls on the Luxmans are really great, including the loudness feature, so I encourage you ... | |
| Class A\B or D for summer months (vs Class A) This is a case where you might like a Coda A/B which tend to run very cool, but are still linear amps. I'm not against Class D at all, I just can't imagine going from Pass with it's own signature to any Class D amp and being thrilled. I'll be in... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? @rfagon My no bs answer is I dont have that specific model. I have a much older AR model which feeds two other Furmans with SMP. Under normal operation in my HT it is silent and produces no heat, BUT occassionally when the incoming voltage is ... | |
| Pass INT-25, split decision and maybe option? Listen to Luxman and Ayre | |
| Power Distribution - to separate source components from amplification? Sometimes. I do recommend a dual zone approach. One zone for your purely audio devices and another for networking/streaming. The main issue is really the power supply polluting an already cleaned up AC. Ethernet/router wall warts tend to be terrib... | |
| AB testing of power regenerators?? Ever do it? A dedicated line is usually substantially more voltage stable. You're not going to plug a vacuum into it because it's a dedicated line. That's the whole point. And how often do you do that while listening? :D Yes, it's more stable, that doesn... | |
| AB testing of power regenerators?? Ever do it? For what it’s worth, there IS a middle ground between nothing and a power regenerator and that’s a voltage regulator. The Furman conditioners such as this one with AR offers tight voltage output with high current, and don’t generate any Class D n... |