erik_squires
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| Flatscreen between speakers Indeed. Some other things to consider is thick panels behind the screen. It also helps but thicker is better here as you get a lot more low notes back there. Other things to try which can help is damping the floor behind the speakers, and under... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments BTW - if you are a ROON or JRiver user then Mitch's Convolution Filters are easy to use. Honestly too hard and too much. Simple parametric EQs in Roon will solve the OP's problems. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes The digital data rides on an analog signal that can pick up noise. High-end computing ≠ High-end audio where we care how it “sounds” Doesn't matter. The question is whether that noise makes it past the Ethernet interface. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes May not matter as much for streamers since ethernet is galvanically isolated from grounds noise. Technically only if you use unshielded cables. Though the signal pairs are balanced, transformer coupled there is usually a little cap that goes a... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments So it's worth using the AM Acoustics simulator to see where your room modes are, but one possible solution would be to run soffit traps actually in the soffits. If the modes are vertically in the corners though you'll want to put them to the side... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments Sorry for contributing only infrequently. A point that I may not have properly addressed earlier is that the benefit of a sub in a situation like this is not it’s bass output but the ability to move it to an ideal location. However if you are se... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? Sorry for not reading your post more fully, OP. I still think you should NOT compare one brand which you know to another which you haven't heard based on whether they are true monoblocks or bridged stereo amps. Having made that part clear, a ded... | |
| What type of speaker would sound better? The drivers matter but the room and integration do as well. Even in driver manufacturing there's an issue of diminishing returns and questions about whether you can hear the difference between say a specific $500 midrange and a $50 dollar one. M... | |
| AI's Effect on Upsampling Audio Files It can process super-resolution to provide high-quality audio output with a consistent 24 kHz bandwidth and a 48 kHz sampling rate from a variety of sources that produce audio signals with bandwidths ranging from 2 kHz to 16 kHz as input. This ... | |
| Is it better to get dedicated monoblocks instead of bridging stereo paired amps? I can't imagine making this decision based on the theoretical pro and cons of stereo vs. bridged alone. If I was buying amps for a touring system maybe... but this? If your hearing is as sensitive as you say it is you should 100% listen for yo... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes An astonishing 10 bits (roughly) are used for every 1 bit of the signal. As I read it's 3:1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio Philips also recognised the difficulty of trimming resistors in their resistance ladder DAC... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes My backed-up assertions are Streaming does not guarantee packet delivery nor bit-perfect accuracy Ethernet on its own does not guarantee packet delivery nor packet accuracy nor packet timing USB when used for streaming does not guarantee err... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Ahhh, the power of buffers and asynchronous output. What I think many are missing is the idea that streamers are not like the phone of old, with effectively one solid circuit between the caller and listener. There are two separate processes go... | |
| Is Stream via ethernet Superior to BlueTooth? Wifi is different than BluTooth. Wifi has essentially the same bandwidth as Ethernet. The isseus as pointed out is whether you have a strong, uncontested signal. The use of a phone or laptop based Wifi analyzer to help sort that out is really ... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Passive crossovers are using energy from the signal to create the crossover, I don't see how that can ever work accurately. @gtscott - Only when well engineered. You do make a good point that they are always subtractive, but when done correct... |