erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| are 4000$ /pr speakers today better than $4000/pr speakers from mid to late 1990's? In general, speakers are going to be a lot different. The tonal balance is different, the 2.4 kHz drop is going to be absent, and the ability to consistently find outstanding tweeter performance for cheap is a lot better. Fast tweeters with limit... | |
| Listening to full LPs vs virtually endless digital tracks. The thing you can do amazingly fast with single track listens is discover new (to you) artists and music you might otherwise not. Then you can jot them down and go back to look at the albums. Also, to be honest 2/3rds of the time I listen to my ... | |
| Luxman M900U any experience ? There's nothing veiled or slow about Luxman SS amps. You do describe a softening of the mids. Are you coming to the Luxman from Pass or Audio Research? | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one 2 is better than one, especially if you can locate each in the optimal locations, which is usually not symmetrical. | |
| Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise? I think you'd have a really nice starter system with Klipsch heresy and a Rogue tube integrated. | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, I don't think old gear is outdated or useless, but I do think old DAC's (before 2015) are severely outclassed by most modern equivalents. In terms of amplification, tubes hold up a little better than solid state in terms of sound quality differenc... | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, PS - I meant tubes. :) | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, Audio gear, like most watches and most cars, is a really bad financial investment. I'm having a very hard time thinking of any audio gear that has even kept up with inflation, let alone appreciated. In terms of gear to keep around, I accumulated ... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D Honestly the proof is in the listening. I’ve not heard these integrateds, and I have been burned more than once by reading a series of glowing reviews for a product only to be completely let down after listening in person, but based on my listenin... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D The mini, book sized integrateds are also very nice for desktop or bedroom use. Look at the 3020D for instance. It would be very interesting to know if those hybrid Class D modules were brought over. The issue I've had with modern NAD was not the ... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D I also find the NAD Class D I have a little lean, however, as I said, this is a tonal issue. I find the ICEpower the opposite. I have _exactly_ the same problem with A and A/B amps today. I'm not saying you should not criticize Class D amps, but ... | |
| Where are the cheap home streamers? I'm really not into the whole streamer/DAC concept per se. What I fear most is not that DAC's will improve (they won't) but that streaming services come and go and the need to keep up with them. It's more of a software and interface thing than ha... | |
| Dirac use while still keeping my DAC? OP: You didn't look at all the products. :) The SHD Studio model has no DAC, but they can all stream.https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd-series | |
| Dirac use while still keeping my DAC? miniDSP has a number of products that would work for you, including Roon ready streamers.If you need something less comprehensive, Roon includes DSP capabilities already. | |
| Too terminate or not I use copper crimp sleeves for all of my terminations, and it's flawless, cost effective and lets you re-use your expensive terminations from several manufacturers including WBT and Furutech. You need to get the right kind of crimper (WBT's is lik... |