erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Inherited 21 piece of vintage McIntosh and need help building a system I should also mention, speakers are the first to go. Surrounds rot or break, crossover caps get too old. Unless you are absolutely in love with any of them, I would sell them first, get speakers you really like, then see what electronics you want ... | |
| Inherited 21 piece of vintage McIntosh and need help building a system Maybe start with the speakers? Then you can listen for yourself, and see how much cabling and other issues you are willing to live with. :) For instance, you could make a really nice system with the integrated amp alone, a nice music streamer and... | |
| Speaker placement behind the screen It is hard to tell without speaking to the OP, as some one who has worked in motion picture sound I have some thoughts:Take care of the basicsHorns are positioned facing the middle of the audience, not the back wall and ceiling. Measure your speak... | |
| New Surrounds On Wall +1 Auxinput is right. The original surround speakers were on the sides. Only later on was a rear surround introduced. Of course, what matters is your own enjoyment, so I find myself putting them to the sides, but maybe 1-2' behind my listening pos... | |
| Speaker placement behind the screen Hi OP, I'll send you a message so we can chat direclty. | |
| Mini dsp what's the deal Just wanted to recap. The recipe for ideal bass is usually room acoustics PLUS equalization. The two combined are a much better recipe than either alone. The bass traps provide an energy sink, so the room does not resonate indefinitely, and the EQ... | |
| Mini dsp what's the deal Hi OP,Yes, running miniDSP from a second set of outputs is ideal, so long as those outputs are after your volume control. Best,E | |
| Mini dsp what's the deal Hi mofojo,It is definitely fun to play with. I use it for my HT sub and it's perfect. When necessary I also use it on my center channel. First, EQ's work best with bass traps and room acoustics already in place. If you have that, then EQ's in com... | |
| High quality high pass filtering for speakers? Should say it also depends on what you want to fix. If you want to minimize your main amplifier's output, you want an active crossover before the amp. If you want to perfect the integration between your sub --> room and sub --> satellites, a... | |
| High quality high pass filtering for speakers? Your comments about a good sub, well integrated are not wrong. So, no high pass filter is a brick wall. If your 2-way is sealed, and you add a 2nd order filter you end up with a total 4th order. Pretty steep, 24dB/octave. That is how THX attempts ... | |
| Ineed some help with a simple math equation Also important to understand how they eat power. Are they low impedance ? Difficult to drive due to high phase angle or low Z in the bass? You may indeed need a very solid amp, but not necessarily need all those rated watts at 8 ohms.Best,E | |
| Ineed some help with a simple math equation Better measurements IMHO are distortion and noise in the actual usable range. If you have spec sheets, look at the THD+N in the 30-100 W range.However, inefficient speakers are less sensitive to noise, and many doubt we can hear anything below 0.5... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Could be. But it could also be in addition to. Looking at the specs for the B&O amps for instance, they could benefit from this idea.Also, as I have noted, you CAN do this yourself using miniDSP, if you were so inclined. I wish I had the time/... | |
| Puzzled... If we are talking rock/pop I'd say it is compression. Lots of albums were mixed for absolute loudness instead of dynamic range. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? Because Phil Collins and Meatloaf aren't really producing? |