erik_squires
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| Conrad Johnson Mf-2500a amp and PF-1 Preamp Recap? Depends how long you plan to keep them. If these are lifetime purchases for you, it’s worth doing. Not the signal caps but the power supply caps, ESPECIALLY in the amp as their failure can cause a cascade of failures that may leave you with a boat... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Also, of course, having a room that is too reflective acts as a tone control, making the speakers sound brighter and short of enough bass. In these cases some damping around the room can really help the bass bloom, in addition to improving imagin... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers for Luxman 590axii? +1 for Fritz especially for it's sound quality and easy to drive nature. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? OP: Measuring your speakers at your listening room could really help understand what oomph you are missing. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? It's a shame you don't have measurements. Also, putting an EQ just in the path of your sub is a very good idea. You may be suffering peaks that need to be clipped that would let you raise the sub level. For an amp with Oomph I like Luxmans, w... | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. To clarify, with shielded power cables there are up to 3 ground conductors. A foil, a small drain wire, and a equipment grounding conductor which is the same gauge as the hot or neutral. If the shield is braided there is no separate drain wire. ... | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. Shields only get connected at the source end In the case of a power cord the source is the wall. The ground WIRE gets connected both ends. Same is true for ICs. Fyi I only use shielded power cords and fully shielded ICs. | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? Does building a custom room or optimizing the room with treatments count as EQ ing ? @ronboco Really not for this discussion. Once we go there the whole thread goes to a general discussion about how to get better bass, which is NOT actually w... | |
| Should I replace the crossover capacitors in my vintage AR 3a speakers? Indeed, specifically old elctrolytics. Film to film is usually OK. What I find amusing is when modders replace old electrolytics wiht film caps, removing 0.5 Ohms of ESR or more in the process and then proclaim what a difference it makes. Well, y... | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? I just remembered that Vandersteen had some models with built in bass amp and EQ, those definitely count! | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! Oh, almost forgot. Ayre. Very different sounding, I like them a great deal. If you want an amp that sounds different, almost like it sucks noise out of the room, try one. | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! I don’t think all amps sound the same, but usually when I hear about reviewers hearing "things I never heard before" it speaks to the device exaggerating one tonal range over another. Especially true with speaker reviews. This is a never ending cy... | |
| Single Sub Position BTW, it's always good to check out the AM Acoustics free room mode simulator. It can help you find places to sit and put your speakers. | |
| KEF ref 1 vs. ref 1 meta @audiotroy - Potato potatoe. Revealing of an amplifier’s current delivery is not the same as revealing of an amps musicality. But, since a gauntlet of sorts has been thrown, I offer a link to measurements. Regardless of how you word these speake... | |
| Should I replace the crossover capacitors in my vintage AR 3a speakers? OP: Honestly the issue I brought up is rare, but when it happens it really messes with people who don't understand why their new fancy caps made the speaker severely change character. It's worth doing a full impedance simulation for this reason... |