erik_squires
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Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... my all time favorite speakers when setup properly were the Great MBL -101 UltimatesOh, yeah, there's three other audiophiles in my apartment with those ... | |
Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary P.S. - In house speaker making is no guarantee of anything, and often is used to lower parts cost. Using off the shelf drivers from a good manufacturer is a fine thing for speaker makers to do. | |
Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary Burchardt uses SB Acoustics in at least some of their models, nothing wrong with them at all. From the pricing I've seen, it's quite fair. The crossover I've seen however seem overly engineered. A thorough analysis would be interesting. I've n... | |
YBA PRODUCTS As I understand it there was a great deal of personal intrigue in this brand, involving a divorce, and brand ownership, yadda yadda. I didn't follow it very closely, but this may partly explain why this brand kind of exploded on the American scene... | |
Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... @French_fries : You are arguing car brands, while I am arguing vehicles. To completely overuse this metaphor, I argue that the 4 door sedan is the vehicle of the century. I’m not arguing which brand / model, but that overall, this type of design h... | |
Dolby Deterioration Dolby SR!! I haven't heard that term in ages. As far as I knew it was a very short lived experiment in multi-band compression. It was (like Dolby A) a pro-only noise reduction format which came out after Dolby C. Like DBX. I vaguely seem to rememb... | |
Recommnedation for the BEST SOUNDING integrated amp up to $3500 Luxman 507 is on the A'gon right now. | |
Dolby Deterioration Hey gang, so few different things are involved here.1- The Dolby noise reduction professional (Dolby-A) was a monster card of parts and op amps. Dolby was not particularly careful with their designs when it came to noise and distortion. I know bec... | |
Best mid priced Amp-Preamp NAD - worth trying their little digital integrateds. | |
My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel A single sub, with bass traps and DSP, when optimally placed, is an amazing thing. People keep adding more subs, and more complexity because they never heard the single sub well integrated to begin with. | |
Best affordable Surge protector home stereo and my TV? Yep, the BrickWall was the first series mode surge suppressor I knew of.This Furman uses exactly the same series mode power filter at the front end, but adds: LiFT - Additional active filtrationCable TV protection Telco protectionbut is $130 cheap... | |
Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... And bi-amping is so very simple, inexpensive and easy to do in space limited environments. :) | |
Is it possible to use speakers with the Marantz HD-DAC1? Yes, powered, or desktop / PC types. Easiest would be to use the RCA outputs on the back. They do make RCA to 1/8" converters in case you want to go to a PC type of speaker. | |
Hales Revelation 3 Crossover Help This speaker uses 4th order crossovers with all film on top. The concept that Erik is referring to should not happen with smaller tweeter caps when only tweeter caps are replaced. Pretty much true, though I could imagine if a zobel or notch f... | |
Hales Revelation 3 Crossover Help PS - Based on the STereophile measurements here: https://www.stereophile.com/content/hales-revelation-three-loudspeaker-measurementsThat speaker is already very difficult to drive. Even small variations can perturb it further. Also, because it’s s... |