erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Advice on whether speaker upgrade is in order Room acoustics. Do that first. :) | |
| 12 Volt Trigger You may have a bad cord, or dirty connection. See if reseating the plug and/or wiggling the cable does anything. If wiggling the cable makes it change, you have a bad cord. Also, if your amp and pre both have triggers, you may not need the furman... | |
| MQA and classical music Are we still not understanding that MQA does not include copy protection? It also doesn't sound very good. | |
| Best amp to drive Wilson Yvette’s Listen for yourself and judge the performance.Unfortunately, like many many speakers, the Wilson’s have an impedance dip in the 100-150Hz range down to 3 Ohms. https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-specialties-yvette-loudspeaker-measure... | |
| THD In Light Bulbs Depends on the light. I've heard and measured on a scope what compact fluorescent light bulbs do an AC line and they are horrible. Others have reported issues with dimmable LED's. The traditional wall dimmer is also a potential noise source. I try... | |
| Best amp to drive Wilson Yvette’s Luxman, D'Agostino, Ayre are all amps I'd recommend you listen to. | |
| Should the power be off every time changing cables? The amplifier is definitely a component you want to keep off during any cable changes. It and the speakers are the most likely to have ballistic failures (as in, things fly) if you do something bad.All other gear will be OK, with low voltages and ... | |
| Headphone DAC for under $150. Oh, one other possible suggestion you might be interested in is the miniDSP headphone amps. What they add is the ability to EQ to adjust for your headphones and personal taste. One way you could use this might be to help you listen to different as... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts OP, if you think this is a phase problem, in the sense that you would hear out of phase L and R speakers, swap both of your main speaker cables. See if that fixes what you are hearing.If that's not it, then I have no idea why we are talking about... | |
| Best bass in Earth! Bass that just smells right... I finally find myself with 26 10 inch woofers (only using 20 at the moment) from four Kinergetics sw 800's in a small 20 x 16 room. 4 towers with 5 10 inch Seas each and 2 of the smaller subs with 3 10 inch woofers each I dunno, maybe, 1-2 su... | |
| Time to retire my McCormack DAC-1 ? Hey there, OP.My typical advice for these sorts of questions is to listen to CD's and high resolution music.If your DAC has a big discrepancy between the two, it is time to upgrade, because the latest generations are much much better with Redbook.... | |
| MQA and classical music Your experience is worse than mine. I found MQA not better than any other format, and found I preferred FLAC with fast rolloff filters to the apodizing filter demanded by MQA. Yes, it did make sounds like cymbals sound soft and squishy. Not even s... | |
| GAIN ON PREAMP VS GAIN ON POWER AMP More gain = more noise. Power amplifiers usually have fixed gain, about 20x, or 26 dB. They need this to translate the input voltages (often around 1-2 V) to the speaker voltages. They may have adjustment pots in the input, but the gain of the cir... | |
| Headphone DAC for under $150. Hey! I'm a big fan of Fiio headphone amps. If it's your cheaper option and you can't hear both with your headphones, jump on it. The Fiio Q1 includes a Lightning (not lighting) to USB adapter built in! I know it's not popular among audiophiles, bu... | |
| Amp, One Set of Speaker Connections Or Two? Having 2 pairs of speaker outputs does not mean you have 2 amps. :) My integrated has this, so I can use 2 pairs of speakers, A or B or A AND B. this is purely a convenience feature. Still single amp. |