erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! Kosst's assessment is correct, methinks, however again I caution against making broad claims about a class of amplifier being better or not than another.Amplifier class bigotry is short sighted in both directions. Best,E | |
| Triangle speakers Ouch. | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. Hi @ebmWow another very important thread!!!! Maybe you aren’t in the right forum for you? I don’t see you making any constructive statements, I don’t see you being helpful, or appreciative of the work anyone else here does, but I seem to live rent... | |
| corner speakers Yes, they have rear firing ports. You’ll loose maybe 10-15 Hz if you plug them. Less than perfect environment for them, yes. Very very good for $400 a pair, their size and where they must live, yes. Best,E | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. I hope I'm not breathing new life into old arguments. My intention was to bring a synthesis of competing ideas together into one that makes us happier, and reduces cognitive dissonance. :) | |
| corner speakers Look at the Hsu satellites. Those horns would be ideal, and they sound really good. | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. @orpheus10 The difference in sound quality, if any, is going to be highly gear dependent. However, converting FLAC and ALAC to WAV is super easy, and bit perfect. Best,E | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Diy from Parts Connexion using Eighman bullets and Connex silver. | |
| Forking from the cables thread to a discussion of whether hi-res is audible..... @ahofer I disagree. I've heard a lot of oversampling CD players and DACs that never sounded as good to my ears as the latest generation. I suspect this has more to do with the quality of the clocks, as well as the use of multiple DACs per channel.... | |
| Constrained layer damping tape on toroidal transformer? Uh, the transformer is not “live”. Siri, how does electromagnetic energy transfer work ... | |
| Constrained layer damping tape on toroidal transformer? @geoffkait is right, but don't use anything conductive! | |
| Shunyata Denali Power Cord Depends on the noise sources near you, and the gear's own filtering. Looking at them, it looks like a very similar thing that goes on with series mode surge protection. Big coil in series with the load. Good idea. It would be really interesting to... | |
| Forking from the cables thread to a discussion of whether hi-res is audible..... I think if you found a DAC pre-2010 you'd have no problems at all hearing the difference. The last DAC I had which was clearly better with high rez was the ARC DAC 8. Several DAC's I've auditioned since then do equally well with Redbook now. | |
| Yamaha integrated amp as3000 vs Pass integrated I get that many love Pass, but it is not universal. I don't think Pass is or should be the gold standard at all. You are free to like it, but please keep in mind it is a personal standard, and most certainly not universal. No one should buy a Pass... | |
| Building Speaker Cabinets- Recomendation Needed Taylor does absolutely fabulous work. Probably better than the originals, but on the other hand, you are getting into DIY and bespoke territory here. You really need to love those speakers to spend the money. Otherwise a kit, or design from Taylor... |