erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Shouldn’t Do This, but… Get a hair dryer and toaster oven or vacuum cleaner on the same outlet. You’ll want the right tools. Sandpaper, wire strippers, wire cutters, needle nose pliers and small and medium screwdrivers of both kinds. Square drive electrician’s is ideal, ... | |
| Shouldn’t Do This, but… Also, put in an outlet that isn’t going to be immediately obviously different. Don’t put in a black outlet if the others are white. Don’t put a 20A outlet if the others are 15A. If the other outlets are already TR, you'll need to do the same. Al... | |
| An Amp Nobody Talks About, Bricasti Design The other amp no one talks about is Vandersteen. I’ve not heard any Bricasti gear I’m afraid so I can’t compare, but the Vandersteen amps I’ve heard were amazing. Like @roxy54 says though, almost no one can afford them either. If anyone has a Br... | |
| Shouldn’t Do This, but… My suggestion is to overload the outlet and replace it when the breaker is still out. 😂 | |
| Acoustic with wood panel Well I'm not sure where exactly you want to put MDF and what you have right now. If you have drywall and putting an MDF panel in front of it it will be roughly equivalent. Depending on the location and your room's existing layout and treatments ... | |
| Help, my system seem to have slowly gotten " bright" Do you have a tube preamp? Could the coupling caps be going bad? | |
| Acoustic with wood panel It sounds like you want to put a flat piece of MDF behind the speakers? They'd sound about the same as bare drywall. | |
| Gain control for low-pass bi-amp OP: If you are not getting the crossover upgrades, then rip out the woofer crossover in it's enitrety and use a miniDSP in it's place. | |
| Taming/Damping Electrostat Backwave @audiokinesis is right on about primarily needing diffusion though perhaps combination diffusers/absorbers could be considered. | |
| Power conditioner/Surge Protection Based on the testing done by Wirecutter, if you want surge protection Furman is the right choice. They make dozens of products however so you want to make sure you have the top of the line surge protection which is SMP/LiFT and EVS. Some of the ... | |
| The Horror @roxy54 I strongly disagree with your opinion of the intent of @audiodidact ’s thread. I think that it was sincere, if a bit tongue in cheek. Hey Roxy. That's fine, I'm not the A'gon police at all. I just ... don't ;like the smell of this ... | |
| The Horror This smells even more like a troll cave which upsets me mostly because too many a'goners will try to help out of genuine concern for the OP's post not realizing they are being kited around. The OP has essentially tied the problem and solution tog... | |
| The Horror You’re displeased because I had the sickening realization that there are major differences in what money buys you in this hobby. Not even a little displeased. More like, surprised that you had any sort of revelation at a trade show. You’ve also... | |
| The Horror Honestly it’s hard to tell how much of a troll this is. The number of great systems I’ve heard is about 1 system per show, on average. Usually the rooms are so bad that I can’t tell anything good about what I’m hearing (with Vandersteen and Fritz ... | |
| Are your speakers losing air? @deep_333 The concentric drivers are also very interesting ideas here. The big challenge for a center is you want to have the dispersion of a 3-way speaker, but the height of 1 woofer! It’s a compromise achieved in a variety of ways. Sometimes wi... |