erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... OK folks. Listen up. Here’s WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. ... Except when they are not. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency dependent, the fact that there are multiple impedance peak... | |
| A vote for amber LED lights on components over blue lights. I like amber. You know, multi-color RGB lighting is so cheap we should be able to dial in whatever we want to now. My MytekDAC actually has a color setting which does that, I'm going to try amber, while thinking about the Amber audio company that ... | |
| How to do room acoustics correction the easy way. Without doing my normal show, while "room correction" software works, it works MUCH better with proper room acoustic treatment. With a very reflective, sealed room ARC won't work nearly as well as one with controlled reflections (absorption and di... | |
| How to do room acoustics correction the easy way. Here is a streamer/DiracLive unit that would go before your DAC:https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd-studioHere's an analog DiracLive that you'd put before your amp: | |
| How to do room acoustics correction the easy way. Number 1 - Treat the room first. Number 2 - You'll get purer results if you apply corrections before the DAC. miniDSP offers DIRAC Live in pre/post dac versions. Best,Erik | |
| Power tube operating temperature a good proxy for power output??? So, the thing to keep in mind is that the power dissipated by a tube is a function of tube efficiency, signal output AND idle power. So, a variation in tube temp may be nothing more than seeing how each tube is biased, but not an indicator of th... | |
| Which speakers to be ''in'' the music? The most important thing for imaging is room acoustics. If you are not feeling depth, height, and a width that goes past your speakers, your room is failing you. | |
| Okay, How Important Is Speaker Break In? (Dynaudio Contour 60i) Takes about a week of playing at listening levels. Also, before you keep going on your merry-go-round, having good room acoustics will make a lot more speakers sound good in your room. | |
| Openning a hi fi shop I would start a church, and make the hi fi shop part of the salvation plan. I'd be rich. | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... @duckworpYeah, setting up a good sounding room curve is hard work. Lots of ARC systems out there and only a few IMHO get it right. Toole doesn't really like any of them, but I think a couple like Anthem and Dirac and JL Audio have come along in ... | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... The eternal debate about active vs. passive speakers is exactly that, an eternal debate.The truth: Pros and cons are complicated. Only in the consumer land the raging debate tends to exist only because there just isn’t that much of a difference fo... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? HI,So the caps I was suggesting is the same exact idea. You'd just have to build your own RCA cable. :) | |
| Subwoofer placement - does it matter? Yes. To play with this idea, try out the room simulator built into the Room EQ Wizard software, which is free.Best,Erik | |
| How I'd spend money given no limits Honestly, Duke, creating and running a speaker brand is the most thankless task on earth. | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? You may want to go even cheaper than a miniDSP. :) Get a capacitor of around 0.04uF and put it in line with your amp inputs. https://www.partsconnexion.com/JAM-82668.htmlBTW, I have a miniDSP and I love it, but I only use it in my sub path way for... |