erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? Meh. As a person with 3 measurement mic's in his house, I wouldn't trust the speaker maker's measurements to begin with, and don't think most would interpret them correctly, and what good is a quasi anechoic (or fully anechoic) measurement when i... | |
| miniDSP SHD integration @baylinor if you find yourself adjusting bass levels for music too much you may have some resonances you can tame with EQ if not otherwise. Some music may excite a room mode, which has you reaching for the volume control. Check the AM Acoustics ... | |
| miniDSP SHD integration Hey @baylinor - You can’t hurt speakers by plugging ports, but you are changing their behavior. The behavior when plugging any ported speaker is going to be rather similar. You raise the -3 dB point, but also dampen the response. That is, if there... | |
| miniDSP SHD integration Great! Good luck. Forgot to mention that you can build effective high pass filters for your amp with screw down RCA terminals, a little wire and some caps. I suggest Cornell Dubilier for your starter film caps. Then if you like the high pass p... | |
| Krell 350 MCX Coupling Cap Jumpers @invalid It’s a good precaution as the coupling caps on tube preamps DO go bad and leak. If the amp is otherwise DC coupled, even a few volts of leak (say 10v leak on a 400V preamp ) could be catastrophic. | |
| miniDSP SHD integration I really do think the SHD is overkill for this, when the HD for $250 will work just fine. The SHD is really meant to be a full function streamer/preamp. If you must have Dirac the miniDSP DDRC-24 will add that capability ~ $500, but then you are... | |
| miniDSP SHD integration To clarify: I'm paraphrasing Toole's take on EQ, but the suggestions for plugging the ports and using a high pass filter on the mains is not part of his argument. | |
| miniDSP SHD integration OP: You read that correctly. this is pretty much the way the great Floyd Toole recommends. His point, and I agree with it, is why buy a certain pair of speakers you like the sound of and then try to EQ them to sound like somethig else? Except i... | |
| miniDSP SHD integration I think the easiest thing for you is going to be to put the miniDSP right before the sub. That’s where most of your bass issues will occur anyway, and miniDSP is pretty transparent, especially for subwoofers. Plug the ports on the back of your ma... | |
| What to change in my system OP: The suggestion of a different amp was just to be different, not necessarily better. :) A romp through some classic tube amps might be a fun adventure, not necessarily a better destination. For your budget and system I think overall keeping ... | |
| What to change in my system There are kind of two things I’d consider: Speaker and sub optimization A really fun integrated. For the first part, I’d invest in measurement microphone and make sure you’ve eliminated all the big peaks subwoofers sometimes cause. It can he... | |
| resonance at 500 Hz using headphones - maybe need a different DAC? Note that all my equipment has modifications by a technician in the N.J. Audio Society. He adds bypass caps, damping, and ERS fabric. Yeah, well, try something he hasn't touched. | |
| Noob question about streaming . . . I don’t think you should pay for another DAC, but I do think it’s worth it to have direct streaming of Qobuz or Tidal that doesn’t involve a tablet or phone as an intermediary. I have Roon and while it’s OK, I find the overhead of keeping another ... | |
| Subwoofer Out VS Subwoofer Crossover You can still set the sun low pass filter lower than 100 Hz if you want. | |
| Subwoofer Out VS Subwoofer Crossover I'd look at the 701's manual and see what the sub out is doing and whether or not it has a built in high pass for your mains, or a low pass for the sub. Neither is better, but with luck the 701 includes a high pass filter for your mains that will... |