erik_squires
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| Hales Revelation 3 Crossover Help Hahahaha. Hahahhaah. Hahahhaa. I’m laughing because I may be the only person on earth who knows what happened, because most modern speaker designers have never seen it. What he probably did was swap out electrolytics for film (a good thing) that w... | |
| High definition vs. tonal balance There are those who believe if the “soundstage” is right, the timbre will automatically be a right as well. Well, kind of. The trouble is I disagree with what "right" is. I mean, yes, sound stage and timbre is intimately linked, but those who like... | |
| My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel Sadly, what I'm reading here is not unique.It's not the sub, it's the calibration and how little most consumers know about how to do it well. Your best bet is a sub with room correction built in, or a pre/integrated with it like the new Anthem lin... | |
| Best affordable Surge protector home stereo and my TV? Hey, here's my thinking on the subject, at length, but the short answer is $180. :) https://inatinear.blogspot.com/2019/04/power-management-for-frugal-audiophiles.html | |
| High definition vs. tonal balance Re: soundstagingYep, a dip around 2.4 kHz in the response seems to do this. It’s kind of a convenient point too, as crossovers often occur in this range so as a speaker designer, all I have to do is push the high pass and low pass filters a little... | |
| High definition vs. tonal balance I agree with the OP, with data to back it up. My view is that "definition" is artificial, and deliberately enhanced. It often happens in the frequency response curves. By using relatively tight peaks and valleys of frequency response, a speaker ca... | |
| Is there an affordable long run XLR preamp to amp cable out there? My point was that the talk about pin 2 vs pin 3 in terms of signal polarity is irrelevant when it comes to balanced cables. Since they are wired 2 to 2 and 3 to 3, they will work with either pin 2 "hot" or pin 3 "hot", and there are no special cab... | |
| Hard Reading - Suggestions from a speaker maker Hi bsimpson : Speaker making is a trade secret. Those who speak out - they don't know better. Well that's a very curious point of view, since all of my life I was told it's something you can go to school for. What makes you say this, and can yo... | |
| Wireless Router - Noise Culprit Well, not really, since the Wifi radiates noise too, and I’ve read of users complaining about that until it got solved too. Just keep your ethernet wiring far from your audio IC’s, especially anything coming from a turntable or step up cartridge s... | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal It's not on their site, but download the full manual and you'll see this hidden near the end. :) Best,E | |
| Blu-ray to RCA or Balanced Do you have a DAC already? If so you should be able to use it to feed your pre from the BD player. You'll have to configure it properly. If you are using a TV, they often have 1/8" jacks you can also use to feed your pre. Best,E | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal One nice thing about several Wilson models is that you can adjust the tonal balance. I'm not sure how many know about this.They have removable resistors in the crossover which can be accessed to adjust the balance to suit.I am pretty sure I've hea... | |
| Looking for Room Measurement / Speaker Setup Software The trouble with measurement software, is, you still have to move the speaker. It won’t tell you where the right place is, it just lets you measure several places. One of the best ways to find the ideal location for a speaker is to swap it wi... | |
| Big systems - Little rooms Yep, it's a pet peeve of mine as well. One JBL super monitor room i saw barely fit the speakers against the wall. In another, hundreds of thousands of dollars of McIntosh gear in absolutely abominable placement. You can treat a rear wall, but dead... | |
| Speaker Clarifiers? In the category of : Things you should not spend money on until after you've hired an acoustic consultant. |