erik_squires
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| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! At the end of the day it will be hilarious if the actual issue was the amps. I'm not sure the OP can even tell if he had DC or not. Has anyone else validated his claimed root cause analysis? Best,E | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! Has anyone actually validated the OP's failures are as stated? Does anyone have eyes on a bad cap? Best,E | |
| Mega D'Appolito Speakers - The Holy Grail? Hi @timlub Thanks for your contributions, here and elsewhere.I _really_ did a poor job of explaining myself. I'm really not thinking of D'Appolito 2-ways. I'm thinking more of large expensive towers with drivers arranged vertically around a tweete... | |
| Streaming vs traditional Should also point out, with exceptions like DSD and https://referencerecordings.com/it is very difficult to get high resolution music files. You are stuck with Redbook. Truth be told though, modern (< 5 years) DAC's sound phenomenal with Redbo... | |
| Streaming vs traditional I could not live without streaming. From being able to listen to great radio stations like Jazz.FM from all over the world to having all of my music at the touch of a button or browser. I buy CD's, but I cannot remember the last time I spun one. ... | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? Had an interesting event courtesy of Music Lovers in San Francisco. I got to listen to the ARC integrated. First, sounds good. Then over the next 30 minutes or so sounds really hard and grainy, and then it swings back to velvety smooth. NO idea wh... | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? The last time my system sounded bad, it had been off for 24 hours. I had forgotten about it when I sat down to listen, it had been on already a couple of hours, but ugh. I kept asking myself "why does it sound so bad?" until I remembered. So, it's... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! By the way, just in general, calling to boycott all products from a certain country or region based on two samples is not really something I can support. It's not the country so much as paying a fair wage and maintaining consistent quality control... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! HI @upscaleaudio Thanks for your thorough reply. Could you give me any specifics, even privately, as to the brand of capacitor that failed? Best,E | |
| Dunlavy Minimum Phase Mods Unsound, That's a really interesting perspective. As a DIY speaker designer, I never bothered to match drivers, and had to trust the manufacturer's provided high quality, and very consistent parts. I cannot afford to buy 100 midranges to sort. The... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Thanks for the link @sfseay Best,E | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! OP - Do you have any idea the brand of caps that failed? As a speaker maker (hobby) I'm very much into capacitor brands, I'd be very curious if there was a failure in a Mundorf or SCR, especially if there were repeats. Best,E | |
| Mega D'Appolito Speakers - The Holy Grail? Now we are getting into the weeds of a slightly different topic. When I started this thread I was thinking more of the W M T M W type of design, or W W w m t m w WW like the mega speakers use. I borrowed the good Dr.’s name to kind of illustrate a... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass @fsmithjack Based on your room and equipment I think the S1 Mk II was actually made for you. :) The combination of your gear's own warmth and the S1's coolness may be ideal. To be fair, I think some of that coolness (but not all) also came from th... | |
| Dunlavy Minimum Phase Mods @unsound That's kind of what I am asking. From a technical perspective, recreating a square wave, or near perfect impulse response with purely passive, multi-way speaker is really difficult. Worthwhile? |