erik_squires
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| Digital Audio for Dummies I strongly recommend Tidal. It streams uncompressed, and has an enormous catalog. Everytime I hear an album on a Jazz or Classical station or Pop I can find it on Tidal. Even obscure things like the complete speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. are ... | |
| I have question about frequency response and power issues Hi James,So, as loud as you wish to play the speakers, the amplifier overheats? I've looked at the Stereophile review, which is sadly incomplete compared to modern Stereophile measurements, and the Ampzilla specs. I think it's around 220W/8 Ohms a... | |
| Monitor Audio Platnium II Big, They don't fit the "High end" mold. They are far too smooth and neutral, and perhaps at first listen a little dark. Compare to B&W 801s or Golden Ear speakers to hear what I'm talking about. I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying, these ar... | |
| Advice Needed On Recapping Power Amp Hi OP,I think you are a little early for a recap, and by the time your amp was made capacitor quality (i.e. low inductance and ESR) had taken a major leap forward already. Also, there are no output caps on most SS amps. I would strongly suggest y... | |
| Integrating a DAC into an Analog System To keep things simple, keep your Duet and feed it's output to a DAC. I did that for a while until I got a dedicated media PC (running Xubuntu). Feeding my Mytek Brooklyn, it worked superbly. I've now moved it to my bedroom feeding an NAD 3020 D vi... | |
| Missing the Old Days I think after thinking about this, that the M2!5 has what might be called a "discerning" speaker. Meaning, it’s more likely to show differences in an amplifier’s current capability than less challenging speakers. Still, for the output I think that... | |
| Long RCA interconnects You'll want to make a very short run to your phono preamp, and make the long run from that to your integrated. As @folkfreak says, balanced is best. | |
| How to properly hook-up a Martin Logan Grotto sub to Parasound pre P5? With vandy 2sig.... Matt:I think the preamp's controls will be the simplest, and leave you with the simplest audio path. Otherwise, you have to run long RCA cables to the grotto AND back. Overall, Your #1 problem is going to be room integration, not who makes a bette... | |
| Mixing subs for live music. Whoops, I thought this wrong. If you place both subs next to each other, you want to cut the small one's output so that both reach their maximum at the same time. If you place them far apart, you'll want to level match them, and limit your output ... | |
| Missing the Old Days @pbnaudio - I was a little hyperbolic there! Yes, it is resistive, so it's not quite as bad as an exotic ESL or pure ribbon speaker, but even with the low impedance out of the bass area, a better than average amplifier should be used. OTOH, I assu... | |
| Missing the Old Days @pbnaudio Love your M2!5 design! but man, that impedance curve is rather murderous to the average amplifier. I would love to have a home theater with a set of those for the fronts. I bet it would be fantastic. Best,E | |
| How to properly hook-up a Martin Logan Grotto sub to Parasound pre P5? With vandy 2sig.... Hi Matt,Sadly you've run into something a lot of buyers don't realize: That setting up a sub is difficult. The settings for one person may not work for you.First, do you have a measurement microphone? You can use something like the Dayton Audio im... | |
| Mixing subs for live music. So this means if you keep the sound balanced, you'll only have the output of 2 of your original subs. If that' enough, you'll be OK. | |
| McIntosh and line arrays - Awesome site Related text:https://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/comb-filtering | |
| Attending an audio show Always sit near an exit... :) Here's my tip: Listen to rooms from the outside. The one's with the best room treatment which will be most worth listening to actually sound great in the hallway too. So, make a quick pass listening as you go, then c... |