erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Think fast: What would you take? Any living creature in this house that's cost me more than $1,000 in vet bills. So both of them. | |
| Let's be a little meta: What topics are most hotly debated? What happened? I leave for 4 hours and there's already a stream of deleted posts. :D :D :D | |
| Let's be a little meta: What topics are most hotly debated? +1 twoleftears...so the debate is actually how to get the bass you want without doing what you know you need to do... My Aztec Goddess of coffee and chocolate, this is true. | |
| How long do high quality speakers "last" The foam surrounds and electrolytics in the crossover are what will go first. 10 ish years on the first, 25 on the latter. Keep them out of direct sunlight and excess moisture. | |
| Walk me thru this please... I really like my Oppo BD player but the convenience of dedicated streamers, like Tidal and local music integration are hard to best. I only turn on the Oppo when I want to play a DVD or BD. | |
| According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media Sad but true. It's really hard for me to justify buying music anymore, let alone physical media. | |
| TV Mounted above fireplace mantel - neck strain? I have found, directly below the monitor works best for center. Yes, but if possible, tilt it towards the listeners. This can improve intelligibility by reducing floor bounce and putting the listener in line with the tweets. If your main speak... | |
| TV Mounted above fireplace mantel - neck strain? Stand up, relax, and notice where your eyes normally look. You’ll notice that our resting eye position has a field of view approximately horizontal with our forehead, downwards. Approximately. If you say you are looking straight, it's not actuall... | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg Truly sad and unexpected news. My good wishes to him and his family. Erik | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Dear Audiogon,If you need to bring me over to your side, please serve me a heaping hot plate of condescending flattery drizzled with projection. Best,E | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world "A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person’s argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making." I ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Hey @mitch2Fair question. I've not heard the swarm. I've heard a lot of subs though, and most of them sounded horrible. I've heard a handful of well integrated subs which were spectacular. My point in writing that piece was that a single or dual... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world I wrote a great deal about this here:https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-not-buy-subwoofer.html | |
| Sub Question. One higher quality sub or two lesser quality? (Rythmik vs HSU) The issue is never the quality of the sub. The issue is always how you integrate it. | |
| Splitter on preamp outputs The thing is that I would like to use a subwoofer with my maggies Could I use a splitter interconnect in order to get one pair of interconnect to the main amp and another pair to the subwoofer amp Sure.without any deletrious effect on the sound ... |