erik_squires
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| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @johnk Has a point. It's not about the technology, it is about what the market will bear. @audiofreak32 This is kind of my point. If you insist that a PASS is the very best (which you may) then no matter how good another amp sounds, if it is diffe... | |
| home circuit breaker - good idea or not to increase to higher amp fuse? The fuse size will not help or hinder you. In all cases, obey federal and local electrical codes. AFAIK you may not put a larger sized breaker on a 120V/15 or 120V/20A circuit that uses the common outlets. Maybe this is just tied to wire guage. 12... | |
| The best coupling caps in power amp ?? Mundorf, Infinicap ?? I have been in touch with Chris over at V-Cap and it seems I am somewhat corrected. Turns out hermetically sealed caps are more rare than I thought, but that still doesn't make them subject to atmospheric effects like I had surmised. I hope he wil... | |
| My JL Audio sub is dead. What exactly happened? This is a real shame as they have what I consider among the very best sounding auto-eq systems. Not becuase of high-tech necessarily but the choices it makes.Guess I'll stick to my Hsu + miniDSP! | |
| The best coupling caps in power amp ?? Mundorf, Infinicap ?? I've never seen any film cap that wasn't hermetically sealed. This is very weird. I mean, if not sealed, then really any change in atmospheric pressure or humidity could change it's value over time. | |
| The best coupling caps in power amp ?? Mundorf, Infinicap ?? @atmasphere So you mean the caps are easy to mechanically deform? For instance, squeezing them along the length? Never handled a cap that delicate! E | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers I am, same name without the underscore.Best,E | |
| Best Capacitors for Crossovers Parts Connexion will often give you a discount if you ask. :) http://www.partsconnexion.com/ | |
| Know of a "Dirt Cheap" tweak? Oh, and one of my favorites, Nivea body wash. Rinses out ear wax. | |
| SS preamp with tube amp I don’t know where Audioman is coming from, but in terms of resolution, an integrated may very well be the most transparent and best combination, since everything is in one chassis and the entire design is thought out as a whole. To my mind the li... | |
| low-level background white noise - Parasound Halo JC-3+ Parasound is incredibly responsive. Have your JC3 checked out! :) Best,E | |
| Listening room questions Try it! You may want to try some curtains on the windows to balance it. Best to experiment inexpensively. :) Or hire experts like GIK Acoustics.Best,E | |
| Has anybody heard this newer brand of turntable? Shineola Runwell out of Detroit, MI USA? Instead of a Schiit, get a Mytek DAC with built-in phono preamp and a Shinola and be done with it! :) Best,E | |
| Better 2 channel music performance via upgrade? I have the Parasound P7 and had the A23's. The A23's were very quiet, powerful, neutral in a modern sense. If anything, slightly warm. Quite pleasant. Class A up to around 20 Watts or something, circuits _derived_ from work JC did in other models ... | |
| Any electronic modders here at Audiogon? +1 4krowSeriously. Especially when it comes to users trading amps and cables to try to get the tonal qualities they want, nothing beats your own speakers and crossovers. Every day I listen to the best sounding loudspeakers in the world. Not becaus... |