erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| room setup suggesion needed Anyone who thinks they know anything about how their speakers sound in a room because of the specs is probably mistaken. The room changes everything and measurements are key. The ability to limit the bass in main speakers and move subs to ideal ... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @m2team00 It seems to be a relatively new feature to have album art in WAV files and not sure all converters support it. See more here. | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? It may help to think of an audio file as having 3 parts: Metadata needed to read the byte stream and it’s location in the file Optional metadata about the recording (Composer, artist, year of release, lyrics, album art) The music data byte st... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? wav does not contain metadata while flac does Um, beg to differ. You are correct in that the existence of album art or metadata should make no difference to a properly behaving streamer. Perhaps @audiotroy you are conflating album art wit... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @stilljd - The FLAC compression levels are aspirational. Think of them more as setting how much time to spend attempting to compress a song, more than how much they will compress a song. That is, as you increase FLAC compression it spends more an... | |
| Melco E100/N 100 Combination OP : In that case I think Roon is a bad fit. MediaMonkey is what I'd recommend. | |
| Is there a cheaper alternative to this: Kind of. Butcher Block acoustics makes solid wood bases with threaded inserts. Those threads can be adjusted and in some cases swapped for IsoAcoustics footers. Check the thread size. | |
| Melco E100/N 100 Combination OP: That means that I still need a PC in the system if I were to add Roon, correct? Yes, Roon read and Roon tested mean they will connect to a roon core, somewhere else. And does the PC need to be hard wired? Ideally yes, but it's more ... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? OP: The metadata and audio are separate. They share a file, but it’s not as if the album cover art is being sent per musical frame. It is in a different location, along with all the credits, so once the music starts to play, it is completely out ... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? The only way you’ll ever convince me there’s a lick of difference between WAV and FLAC is with the jitter measurements. It is _possible_ that the decompression has so much of an effect it overworks limited or pooor buffers and jitter control mech... | |
| Different Types of Spade termination ie gold plated copper, or other metals combos Go with soft. Copper and gold are among the best choices. They are excellent conductors and soft enough to really let the terminals grip. Rhodium on the other hand is a terrible conductor and far too hard to keep a strong grip. IMHO, besides s... | |
| Audio Research versus McIntosh tube amps: anyone experience or compare both? I agree with @cleeds In particular, how they handle the upper midrange and treble is very different, and also different for vintage AR vs. current. I'd suggest Ayre and Luxman to be on your short list, as well as Parasound. | |
| Why Preamps Thump on Turn on Amplifiers should always be turned on 1st and last off! This will eliminate speaker thump due to large current inrush filling capacitors in the amplifier. The inrush current is the same whether first or last. However, turning it on first will ... | |
| Gain control for low-pass bi-amp Any passive volume control on the bass amp will work for you, no reason to make it very expensive, but if you wanted to spend a little money, I’d get a miniDSP AND bypass all of the low bass woofer’s crossover. This would take some careful measur... | |
| Stacking subwoofers You would be better served by adding just 1 IF you can place it optimally so as to eliminate any existing dips. If you can't choose where to put it bass traps and EQ may be a better direction for you at this point. |