erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality Look at it another way. We spend a lot of tiem money and effort looking for things to fix. Wouldn't it be good to have a dac that turns red if a particular source is no longer performing well?I mean, if we hear something change, we often look for ... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality The reason this is not common as it’s not really needed. No one has any idea if this is needed or not because end users never get to measure it themselves. The argument here is really that unless it's blatantly obvious to the ear we should not c... | |
| Soldered VS ...everything else As alluded to above solder comes in many alloy formulations.The good old wire looped into a screw down terminal alleviates one connection point.Silver and silver oxides conduct better than gold. And none of it is as good as a cold weld for current. | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality If you are going to interject your own agenda without actually addressing the original post it is considered polite to start your own thread. | |
| Best bookshelf speakers <$2000 In all things, buy what you personally like. Pay money to make your family and yourself happy, not reviewers and not me. I will say that hearing things for yourself is critical. My goal in life is not to buy $3,000 bottle of wine. It is to spend $... | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? You may use a receiver as a pre if it has line level outputs.Under no circumstances should you hook up two amplifiers to the same speaker at the same time except in the rare case of bridging, which you are not doing. Each amp has an "opinion" of w... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? 1. The power of suggestion2. Noise - One cable may be better at rejecting noise than another3. You had a dirty plug and this cleaned it out4. Better impedance matching. Not all cables are up to spec. While lots of people pooh pooh optical cables, ... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers <$2000 I wouldn't even briefly consider buying from a company that can't be bothered to stock and distribute their products through retail outlets. Because that's just so damn easy, it's a real wonder everyone can't do it. There's no reason to believe ... | |
| Speaker type for my Conrad-Johnson ET5/LP70S tube combo Magico A3? I'd also suggest Monitor Audio, but may be too laid back for you. | |
| Soldered VS ...everything else How do people feel about set screws in bananas or spades? Not by themselves, again, in a gold plated copper crimp sleeve is ideal.However, again the issue is that in the cheapest types the threads are too coarse and the material is too hard to se... | |
| Bluetooth converter for headphones. You want something like this:https://amzn.to/2KugtcQ | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? Tandberg. I wish all stereo equipment looked as well and performed like their FM tuners or tape decks. | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. OP :Yeah, you are not the only one to listen to Boulder and really wonder what was going on. | |
| Optical + Auxillary Mixer "auxiliary" is one of several analog, line level inputs which were all identical. CD, Tape, Tuner, etc. all used the same physical and electrical specification. The Echo Dot also has a Bluetooth though, so you can pair it with a receiver like this... | |
| Drink of choice for serious listening? I have a few. Maker's MarkGreen Dot Irish WhiskeyComandon cognacTheme? Smooth and sweet like my stereo system. :) Best,E |