erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Coda Tech Amplifier Well, when I say you really need to listen to it, I say so neutrally.While it was robust, I found the amp QUITE cool sounding. More blue than red. Kind of how I felt about older Krell equipment. It was also a lot finer and more delicate across the... | |
| Speaker phase observation and question? I really again, suggest anyone who wants to learn more would do so with the LM-1 simulation files. You can review the frequency, electrical and acoustic phase of the drivers by themselves, and then see how the crossover adds to it.Best,E | |
| Coda Tech Amplifier I believe the designers are Threshold alumni. Sander's Magtech amplifiers are built by them, with significant enhancements and spec changes here and there to improve ESL performance and power supply stability. I would say you absolutely should lis... | |
| Speaker phase observation and question? Hi @kosst_amojan,Well that is unusual, but not the end of the world. Well, I consider that quite predictable, this is what math and simulations are for. But your comments seemed to be mixing up phase and polarity. Best,E | |
| Full range or subwoofer with bookshelfs for best bass at low to moderate volume? Guys, if you hate crossovers, get a sealed 2-way,plus a sub and don’t use a crossover at all. Run the satellites full range, and only use a crossover and EQ on the sub. You won’t get big gains in the amp's dynamic range, but you will avoid the el... | |
| Time for Two Ways ! I have never heard Fritz, but he's picking great components and selling at bargain prices.They are definitely speakers I would have to audition before spending more. | |
| Full range or subwoofer with bookshelfs for best bass at low to moderate volume? The only empirically proven method discovered to date for providing very good bass response that is well dispersed throughout any given room is the use of a Distributed Bass Array (DBA) system. << cough cough>> Hahaha. Hahahah. ... | |
| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions By the way, I do hear the more open and more dynamic aspects of the CMR line. I'm also saying that so far it is significantly cooler. Imaging is not gelling either, but I have been testing asymmetrically so hopefully as they age together this will... | |
| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions Hi Dave,What measurements seem to change with break-in? The Farads seem very stable to me. Best,E | |
| Best car audio, Burmester? highly disapointed Yeah, in the Audi the Bose is the way to go. the B&O system has a ton of features but the top end sounds like their headphones, artificially exaggerated details. I have the 2012 A4 and man, it has way too much road noise. It got much better wh... | |
| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions I'm going to mention @dgarretson the US rep to see if he would like to chime in. So I finally had the health and energy to rebuild my crossovers. Hopefully this trend continues! :) Also I am relying a lot more on barrier strips, so future updates ... | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? So this brings me full circle. I've seen speakers that are hard to drive at the top end, at the bottom and all across the spectrum. The ESL speakers come by their low impedance and difficulties as do the full-range planar-magnetics (Apogee) via le... | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? All ESL panels I know of follow this descending impedance curve, which is a problem for a lot of amplifiers since most amplifier’s have rising impedance at the upper end of the frequency spectrum, resulting in an overall significant net loss of ou... | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? @atmasphere Wrote this false and misleading statement (<----- a paraphrase of how atma has posted): The ’original Quad’ (as bdp24 put it) is an easy load to drive. Differences in damping between amps is one of the few things that **isn’t** au... | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? Also want to say, we are lucky to be alive right now. There are some wonderful Women and Men making violins, violas and cello’s these days for relatively paltry sums compared to buying a Strad. Anyone who gets a chance to listen to an accomplished... |