erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment Hmmmm, so I make my own loudspeakers so therefore can measure them fairly well in terms of frequency response and distortion. They are objectively pretty close to neutral, with no sweetening peaks and valleys that are often the darlings of high en... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? So the conclusion is, if we had transistors first, then all tube amps would be trying to be as good as transistors? :) | |
| What is this speaker doing right? Wharferdale uses really smooth and low compression tweeters and don't get enough credit for it. | |
| High order crossovers Again, I strongly suggest anyone who REALLY wants to walk the walk and stop debating forever, build a pair of the A26 kits. It doesn't get any lower order than that. Zero order is NO crossover, not low-order crossover. Best,E | |
| High order crossovers If memory serves, time / phase coherent speakers often use 1st order tweets, 2nd order on the mids, along with physical offsets. But as I have mentioned, I've heard them and they were not for me. I didn't think that dynamics was a particularly ste... | |
| High order crossovers There is no correlation between part count and difficulty of driving. In fact, after a crossover is done, say you end up with a dozen parts, you might often add a few more to reduce impedance peaks and make the speaker operate more consistently wi... | |
| Floor-Standards to Monitors? Monitor Audio are superb. | |
| Safe to use stereo amp for Movies in the long term? Yep, perfectly safe so long as you don't hear amp distortion. | |
| blu ray coax out You need to tell your blu ray to output PCM and downmix. Your DAC won't know how to handle it. If you run the coax out to a HT receiver you can do 5.1 or 7.1 but you are limited to the DVD specs. I'm not sure how lossy it will be either way. | |
| Small or large sub for music TBC, having the space and money to have 4 subs is not the normal music lover's situation. @mapman was talking to that. He was not discrediting the use of 4 subs. I too will never be able to have more than 1 sub in my listening area so to me, the ... | |
| My music sounds brighter oh, and high efficiency lights or dimmers. New cable service... what else. Nope, that's it. :) | |
| My music sounds brighter Also possible, new wifi / radio devices. Alarms, routers, etc. | |
| My music sounds brighter Acoustics, and the AC power. Courtains, rugs, moving furniture? Turning off the gear at night now? | |
| Do electrolytic caps need burn in? Wow, that really is overkill. :) Often preamps have caps in the range of 2-10 uF. Strongly consider you use small film caps in that range instead. And yes, probably 48 - 72 hours of burn in to be safe. As for electrolytics, Panasonic makes some ve... | |
| Small speakers for the kitchen - Sensitivity Check Parts Connexion, they often are having a sale on a variety of brands. Monitor Audio, Focal, Wharferdale often end up there. https://www.partsconnexion.com/speakers-electronics.html |