erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| NAD Preamp The P5 is not half the preamp the P7 is. I'm afraid I can't recommend it at the price point. What about a DAC/Pre ? Best,E | |
| Tekton DI Monitors @charles1dad I think as a buyer you are right on. :) One important part of the hobby and engineering though is to examine our assumptions about what sounds good (and good enough) vs. measurements. A couple of weeks ago, comb filtering was all the... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors P.S. I reserve the right to coin a new phrase, in this case quasi-D'Apollito to mean speakers which use a Woofer - (something) - Woofer array when that (something) shares a similar crossover point that could be expected wiht a D'Appolito, around 2... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors You keep referring to the DI Monitor as a "quasi' D'Appolito design" , however I politely disagree with this statement@teajay If the monitors are not attempting the same dispersion control that D'Appolitos bring, then it is just bad speaker design... | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? Listening to the Mytek Brooklyn (original) driving a pair of ICEpower monoblocks. Could not be happier. :) | |
| Tekton DI Monitors It would be very interesting to know if anyone had been able to compare the Enzo's to the DI monitors, for the sake of comparing the quasi' D'Appolito style to a more conventional use of dual woofers. Best,E | |
| Tekton DI Monitors Hi Charles,My critique may be a moot point is listeners don't mind the off axis performance or plan on only listening in one fixed location. I think that for the same price, a slight re-arrangement of the woofers along with a higher order crossove... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors @teajay - I understand the theory of the tweeter array and I think it's very interesting. What I meant was, the DI monitor's quasi-D'Appolito design leaves things to be desired. If those woofers were closer together you'd get even more of the arra... | |
| Mytek Dac going Ac to DC power. I'm using Monster cable's finely stranded 14 gauge speaker cable. If I can find them in my bag of goodies I'm going to try snap on ferrite cores. | |
| Tekton DI Monitors Based on the impedance charts, I'm guessing the woofers cross over at around 1kHz when (based on spacing) they should have been crossed around 300 Hz. Alternatively, the designer could have done an (array) - WW design, eliminating the comb filter... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors @teajay - On the other hand the woofer to array crossover seems rather high, around 1-2 kHz, so we can’t call the outer ring mid-woofers either. Point is, why bother with a W - (something) - W array if you are not going to get the benefits? Yeah, ... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors teajay - * moot * :)And thank you for your informed listening experience! It sounds like that tweeter array is behaving as expected for you. Erik | |
| Tekton DI Monitors @corelli - It really depends on the buyer. I often have music playing in my home regardless of what I'm doing, so having a pleasant off-axis experience in both planes is important for me. There's much that has been written that a lot of consumers ... | |
| Tekton DI Monitors Sean - Quite possibly. The proof would be in the measurements. Best,E | |
| Magico A3 vs. Focal Kanta 2 I would not trade the Elipsa or the Stradivari for anything on earth. Not only are those tweeters and drivers top notch, but those wide baffle speakers are transcendent. They bring their own sense of acoustics with them in ways narrow baffle speak... |