erik_squires
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| Power Conditioners This comes up so often I wrote a blog about it:https://inatinear.blogspot.com/2019/04/power-management-for-frugal-audiophiles.htmlBest,Erik | |
| laid back stereo power amp Parasound. | |
| Integrated streaming amplifiers under $3000 Not sure if you can find them in your price range but the Anthem STR line may be a good fit. In your price range, sure you wouldn’t consider a Rogue integrated plus a separate streamer?? It's a really nice sounding tube amp I can recommend for so... | |
| Headphones .......... Huh? Room acoustics. Do this experiment. Sit 2' from your speakers and listen to the detail there. The difference in detail from 2' to 10' away is your room acoustics and speaker dispersion pattern. If you find yourself much happier at 2' than 10', g... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Right. If we are talking about a 2 channel high fidelity system one sub never works well for a multitude of reasons. I must have a magic sub. | |
| What's become of David Garrettson? If you mean @dgarretson, he's been on until Sept. 10th: https://forum.audiogon.com/users/dgarretson/posts | |
| Total bass suck out at 40hz The problem is when you have your subs placed symmetrically.My suggestion is, put 1 sub in your listening location, then measure where the bass is best. When you find htat, put the sub there. Problem solved.Also, the imm-6 from Dayton does a be... | |
| Neutral Sounding Tube Amps - what gives? I can't help but wonder about how much of this trend has happened due to the ubiquitous red Wima caps everywhere. In my mind, the sound of a tube preamp or amp is in very large part due to signal and coupling caps. I think I once called a tube pr... | |
| need more power 100% treat the room first. Your opinion about what you need and what is missing will totally change. Talk to GIK Acoustics. Especially the part about your wife saying to turn it down. It means the room is too live to be intelligible. Best,Erik | |
| Wild Fires, Air Purifiers and Sound Systems Of course. I think I got the last Merv 13 in LA. :) Regarding this DIY box fan, if I understand you correctly: duct tape a high quality filer to the back of the box fan, insuring all air must go through the filter. Then turn the fan on and let t... | |
| Wild Fires, Air Purifiers and Sound Systems Hey OP,I’ve had to do quite a bit of research onto this subject for the same reasons. A high quality furnace/AC filter which is rated to at least Merv 13/Filtrete MPR 1900 will filter out smoke very successfully. For the wood smoke we are sufferin... | |
| Speakers hung from ceiling on aircraft cable. Newton's third law says no. The drivers are motors and pushing back and forth against the cabinet. If they are not rigidly held in their 3 dimensional space relative to the listener you will introduce all sorts of artifacts. In fact, even with sta... | |
| Cheap/Fun experiment - Record your listening If possible, just leave your phone on your chair. Again, I am curious to know how well the room stands out in the recording. When I've done this in the past, whether to record people talking, or systems, it was amazing how much more of the room ... | |
| Cheap/Fun experiment - Record your listening I'll get to it this weekend, but I would love to have others record and post their systems too. Again, the goal is to listen for ourselves and see what the room sounds like. Doesn't sound like anyone is really interested in trying it though. | |
| Cheap/Fun experiment - Record your listening Hi @riley804 OK, but the point of this exercise is more to hear how the room sounds in a recording, not how my system sounds. If you think that’s interesting I’ll do it. I doubt you can tell much about my system. Do I talk that much about it? I ju... |