erik_squires
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| Wireless or wired? For reliability issues, I try to go wired any time I can, and relegate wirless to convenience devices, but not music or movie streaming. Of course, I'm in a dense apartment building with 2 dozen wifi signals. | |
| Bass and the REQ room simulator Hi @bacheI did not mean to start a thread on how to make your room better. :) I just wanted to show how this tool is interesting and how you can use it to learn or place a sub. Best, Erik | |
| Suggestions for some Monitor Audio These are pretty lively speakers. Even your average warm amp would do well. Try a Class D or Parasound classic. | |
| Bass and the REQ room simulator Hi @BacheThat's good to know, but we're talking about simulation, not measurement. :) Best,Erik | |
| Bass and the REQ room simulator The room simulator will do normal speakers too, and you can put in your cut offs to see how different main speakers would behave. I suspect a lot of people will be really surprised what happens when you go from a two way to a full-range, multi-way... | |
| Bass and the REQ room simulator PS - I encourage everyone to play with it, it’s a great great learning tool and the more we have trying it out, the better. It does support up to 4 subs, so I’m sure the swarm people will go nuts with it. That’s fine. This is exactly the place for... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? I never had much of an impression of Rega, and when I tried a headphone amp I was severely disappointed. The Project I ended up with was nearly an identical circuit, but with a far better power supply filtration. One cost $90, the other $300. | |
| Do pure copper banana plugs make a difference in the quality of the speaker sound. I will say that what does NOT work is hard metals, like rhodium, or solid brass. You want your plugs to be soft and non-tarnishing, preferably with a spring to them, like banana plugs have or the spring loaded WBT spades. Anything hard like rhodiu... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? I should also mention Accuton ceramic drivers. I drooled over the specs and performance, but when it comes to actual speakers with them, I’ve never been more let down. | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? Erik talks about how he doesn't hear much difference with absorption at first reflection zones. I have not actually said this. I've taken like 2 dozen posts to explain this. | |
| Aiff or Flac I worry that a lot of audio myth here was formed with older DAC's. Modern DACs, even the cheap ones, have amazingly good clocks. Definitely worth listening for yourself. | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? Hi Brad,Yep, that's one reason I often recommend audiophiles listen to their speakers from 2' away. The difference in clarity and resolution and tonal balance between that and the normal listening position is mostly the room. Once they understan... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Brother Thelonius is in fact one of the best beers out there. :) The Infinity floorstanding speakers were really kind of nuts. The crossovers were designed before we had current simulation tools, so if you have them and can find an upgrade kit th... | |
| Another Bass discussion... Again, you answered your own question. You have a different set of values. You admit to having poorly integrated bass, something I could not live with. Of the different qualities in a speaker system, having _good_ bass is really hard. I would p... | |
| Another Bass discussion... So your observation is that you only care about bass, and you could care less about how well it integrates with the rest of your system?? Then why are you surprised audiophiles want to listen to all kinds of music, really well, that may or may not... |