erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Room is way too bright. If you can't do anything else there's a variety of window film and installers. Personally I dislike traditional blinds as I find they often don't cut enough light, or leave obnoxious holes of light through. If you need to cut solar heat transfer... | |
| Is the microwave the perfect model for audio marketting? @larsman You are right. The revolving platter is now such a ubiquitous feature I completely ignored it, but it's essential. | |
| The end of physical media is neigh For the record... I did not misspell the title of this thread. I typed it correctly but Audiogon's server software changed it. Horrible bug that creates typos where none existed before. I know others have suffered from this too. << a... | |
| Streamers and software Can you try Roon? Supports Qobuz and Tidal. I don't use the playlist features very much though. | |
| How does 10+ year old technology compare to modern: Musical Fidelity M1 DAC Prior to that I'd say a great deal. In the last 10 years though? Not in my mind. The advent of cheap femto clocks and DACs which do much better with Redbook (44.1kHz/16 bit stereo) than the previous generation happened around 2000 or so. Afte... | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? @mashif - Thanks for the follow up. Just because I focused on large speakers with EQ doesn't mean I wanted to discourage anyone from also using room treatments. Effectively dampening the mid-treble energy in a room can bring out the bass. | |
| How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff? Listen to a great human based radio station like Jazz FM 91 | |
| What is the advantage of being able to select the MONO button? There are also issues with how sounds cancel coming from 2 speakers vs. 1 due to head related effects. The ideal playback for mono recordings really is just 1 speaker, or two speakers right next to each other. | |
| My high pass filter experiment and a couple of questions A single capacitor can be an effective high pass filter. Combined with port plugging makes it easier to raise the subwoofer Hz, something many who have resisted found irresistible after trying. :) YMMV. | |
| My high pass filter experiment and a couple of questions only going by the posts I read here on A’gon, I was getting the impression that the going thing now-a-days was to augment full range speakers with a pair of subs? While true for many, for the most part I find these approaches barely scratch ... | |
| My high pass filter experiment and a couple of questions I remember that back then the conventional wisdom seemed to dictate that if one wanted to use a sub for low bass, the logical choice for speakers would be "book shelf’s" as there would be less overlap of bass frequencies. That was the way it was ... | |
| My high pass filter experiment and a couple of questions Oh man, the M&K high pass filter!! That brings me back. M&K was a major proponent of the satellite/subwoofer movement and I think their targets were more or less adopted by THX. Sealed speaker that goes down to 80 Hz (the S-1B for instanc... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh Related, but a tangent, is the way AI is taking over our listening. Driving in my car it is impossible to ask for U2. Google keeps hearing it as Youtube and damned if I can specify "Play the irish band U2" Alexa for instance can’t hear "Halie Lo... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh I can’t deny the convenience of streaming. The problem I have is that we are at the mercy of whatever the streaming companies want to have in their library at the time, which is not a cultural or artistic decision, it’s based on negotiations which... | |
| Music for Working Creatively – I need your help! I like Yo Yo Ma but got to the point where I feel I can hear him more than the music. Try Brandenburg Concertos as well as anything related to ancient music. |