erik_squires
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| Need streaming advice The Wyred4Sound Remedy (full disclosure, I'm selling one on e-bay) Is a pretty good add on for these low cost streaming appliances. Best,E | |
| What does a bad tweeter sound like? If you have a capacitor short in the tweeter path, you may get a lot more mid/bass (a dangerous thing!) | |
| What does a bad tweeter sound like? Usually, it's no sound, rattling, rasping, or tizzing.If you have one speaker that sounds a lot brighter, it is probably the other speaker's tweeter died. :) Best,E | |
| recommendations for amplifiers that don't emit tons of heat Space is actually one of the big issues for me. I'd love for instance, a pair of Parasound monoblocks, but have no room at all. | |
| recommendations for amplifiers that don't emit tons of heat There are a lot of good Class D designs out now. You may pick up some ideas in this thread:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/class-d-is-just-dandy?highlight=dandy | |
| California audio show in SF Bay area oh, thanks for posting this!!! I was just assuming it had been cancelled.Damnit, I could set up a table and get rid of all my cables. :) I also just bought the last thing I needed, a desktop integrated. :( I should have waited. Best,E | |
| How to measure step up transformer ratios You could do this with your PC if you were willing to hack a couple of those cables. :) Get a signal generator (lots of free out there, including Room EQ Wizard).Load the output with a typical resistor. I'm not sure what the appropriate voltage ... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! NAD D 3020 sound qualityThis is a good performer, a huge step up fro my $20 Lepai 10W/ch digital amplifier. It is extremely quiet and smooth, without grain or harshness but also without warmth. The bass boost is a huge help as my desktop speakers ... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Found a partial answer: NAD calls the D 3020 a "hybrid digital amplifier," by which they mean that not all of its circuitry is in the digital domain. The D 3020 combines a Cirrus Logic DAC (eight channels mixed down to two) with a class-D output s... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! My goal was a little desktop integrated or pre/amp combo. After hemming and hawing and fretting I purchased an NAD D 3020. My local dealer had one $100 off. I ruled out all of the Parasound Z series just because they are too big. at 9" wide they w... | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. It is not clear if you have an attic space available. If you do, using an outdoor directional FM antenna mounted in the attic is a great idea! Best,E | |
| What kind of controller are you using for your Hi-Fi music system? Part of this is the general Wi-Fi issue. If you live or work in a heavily populated residential area, Wi Fi can be pretty unreliable thanks to channel congestion, made 2x worse by XFinity doubling up the number of channels a single router uses. Fi... | |
| A to D conversion I would talk to them, but a common issue is incorrect, or no, sample rate conversion. This could happen anywhere in the chain. I’m sure if you reach out to them they’ll respond. Best,E | |
| Aurender upgrades Tidal - MQA -Only for A10 and 20 - lesser models not worth their time This device is fully capable of producing MQA encoded streams to a DAC. What it will not do is decode MQA. This is how MQA works. The decoding firmware should be DAC specific. Having said that, I think Tidal is doing a quasi-MQA decoding if you ru... | |
| The best tweeter design You know everyone who is lauding the MBL tweeters, I wonder how much of it is really the tweeters. I mean, if you turned them off, you'd still hear most of the piano notes. :) Perhaps there is more to the MBL sound than _just_ the tweeters? Best,E |