erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Add a subwoofer? I don't think there's any doubt a well integrated sub is a wonderful addition. The problem is usually the work needed to integrate a sub well. For a novice, success can seem random, and often frustrating. | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. Over-treat what you can treat, and use tone controls. Respect how others listen. Many just want to hear the notes and tempo and the concept of building a 3D acoustical space is unimportant to them. Control directivity. Small 2-ways with horns li... | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? I wouldn’t call them scientific, but they do have their own sound in my mind. One of the best "scientific" attributes of Magico is the power response. The extremely wide and even dispersion makes these speakers throw an excellent image to a wide l... | |
| No bass on B&W 800D2 In addition to polarity, worth checking the drivers are actually working. The inductor wires are especially susceptible to having nearly invisible cracks happen at the circuit board. | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) Don’t think you wish to be in Florida for this next one, It’s going to be a bad one. True, though Helene’s swath of destruction and power outages that reached far inland. For sure though, we are now talking the type of damage a surge protec... | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) @oldelectricalinspctor Thanks for the warm welcome. I find that other hobbies such as watchmaking and speaker making take my personal time away from general audiophilia, but I'll pop in from time to time where I can help. | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) @thecarpathian - I wish, their power recovered faster than ours did. SC. | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) Are there any audiophile level surge suppressors that do not add any conditioning or filtering? The best surge suppressors are low pass filters. The low pass filters slow down the surge to give the surge suppression gear time to respond, so no... | |
| Clipping with Separates with change of Power Conditioner[?] What is your remaining Furman? If it has SMP and LiFT I'd run the entire system through it. | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? The challenge with a Macbook, along with any other PC is the potential for ground loops via USB and noise from the power supply. Fix those two issues and they can be excellent. Many high quality DAC's now are galvanically isolated USB inputs, so... | |
| 15 amp circuit VS. 20 amp Circuit That’s a lot of gear. Honestly if you weren’t going to run them at maximum output all the time you are probably fine so long as you don’t try to turn them all on at once. The better your wiring to your stereo, the more likely you are to dim the h... | |
| Stereophile spec measurement baffling(pun?) At best it can tell you how much air the speaker can move. Audiophiles rely on this spec way too much IMHO, especially when deciding whether or not to add a subwoofer and how to configure one. The room makes liars out of all of the anechoic/quasi-... | |
| The Low Volume Loudness Dilemma The main reason tone controls were considered bad, IMHO was they were often poorly implemented compared to the rest of the unit. Some had excellent tone and loudness circuits while others simply did not. The otherwise excellent Parasound P7 was ... | |
| Processor sound comparison- Anthem avm90 vs NAD M17 V2i Skip the Anthem, for two reasons. It doesn’t handle 2 channel surround correctly and the room correction isn’t all that. It doesn’t do a great job of integrating the loudspeakers and doesn’t allow you to manually adjust either. The latter is only ... | |
| Isolation transformer question IMO a regulator can do much more for you than a simple isolator, but the isolator can eliminate DC on the line, which is kind of rare, increase filtering due to increased inductance and make the incoming AC immune to certain types of EMI/RFI noise... |