erik_squires
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| Why does a Music Server require high processing CPU power? Roon may over-estimate it’s CPU requirements, mostly because they want to specify a CPU that is capable of doing all the upsampling you might ask it to do. I’m running an 8 y.o. AMD A10 with no issues, but if I attempt high level DSD sampling I wo... | |
| Why does a Music Server require high processing CPU power? Nearly all the CPU-intensive activities you cite (except for equalization) are the responsibility of the DAC. Um, what?? Depends. In my world, a DAC takes S/PDIF in, or USB in, and produces an analog signal out. While upsampling may be done by th... | |
| Surge Protector - Brick Wall/Zero Surge vs SurgeX @Zerosurgejim Hello there! Can you talk about licensees?? McIntosh, Furman and PS Audio have at times offered products which seem to be, either by using the phrase "series mode" or with their specs. Can you confirm or deny which are?Thanks,Erik | |
| Why does a Music Server require high processing CPU power? Hi Hgeifman,The question about lots of CPU processing is not necessarily the same as having multiple cores. Scheduling work to be done on a CPU is complicated, and desktop OS’s are not designed to be real-time(RTOS) or to guarantee latency between... | |
| Parasound A21 and A21+: Significant Improvements in SQ? While there are many ways in which the Parasound line excels, even the Luxman integrateds can make them sound constrained and too warm sounding. Depends very much on your speakers though, with B&W, Focal, Dali or GE I would imagine the Parasou... | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article BTW: I really like how Ayre amps, and especially headphone amps sound. | |
| Looking For Advice After Dumb Vandy Purchase Wait, do you mean the high pass filter?? Those are super easy to make up yourself. :) May I suggest some Jupiter copper foil caps?? :) | |
| I can prove your room is bad should have included dipoles in general | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article here is a thought: own better speaker with a smooth impedance modulus, You know, this can be done artificially for peaky impedance speakers, but it's expensive and wastes a lot of heat. Low order crossovers (1st) and series crossovers also avo... | |
| I can prove your room is bad "A speaker that has controlled dispersion does basically the same thing you’d expect an acoustic panel to do, but it does a better job.” Absolutely true. The more controlled, the less treatment. This is why ESL's can rock this test. | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound I could find nothing in that post which supports your statement that flipping polarity of a driver is in any way related to it behaving like a pistonic driver. I suggest you quote any relevant sections. | |
| Vandersteen updates and amplifiers Have you had your room acoustics professionally evaluated? Talk to GIK. | |
| How important is a Linear Power Supply Versus a Switcyed one? It really depends. Good switch mode power supplies can have phenomenally low noise and high current.... but !! the concern now is how much noise they inject into the AC. This is why I suggest a dual-zone power configuration. https://inatinear.b... | |
| Full range break in I think it's really just a matter of time. The issue from measurements of woofers I've seen is the suspension is a little too stiff at the beginning, and the resonant frequency of drivers drops afterwards. Since the problem happens at the low-end ... | |
| Upgrade help: Luxman and McIntosh. I can't tell you how happy I have been listening to my own 507ux. It is extended in the bass and treble, and has a sweet liquid midrange. Also, the tone controls, including loudness work very well. My experience with Dynaudio is they tend to mak... |