erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Cardas RCA Silver connectors Thanks Aux! Yeah, I've had that happen to me more than once. Neutrik also. Best,Erik | |
| ROI. Where is money better spent? Room treatment vs. speakers is kind of a chicken and egg. Good room treatment makes a room more speaker and sub, and genre and movie friendly. However you don't really know what the problems are until you get speakers. :) I will say that once you... | |
| Cardas RCA Silver connectors Also,I bought high end Furutech locking bananas a while ago and was so disappointed in their mechanical performance I won't ever consider them again. I used them in some Focal speakers which seem to have slightly oversized plug holes. Two of the f... | |
| Mono vs stereo When you listen to mono, you should use a single speaker, in the center, not two speakers playing the same signal, it won't sound the same. When you listen to stereo, one thing you will notice is instruments at the sides get brighter than those at... | |
| Cardas RCA Silver connectors Thanks, I have the KLE silvers on the way already, but I still have a couple of pairs of Cardas RCA to use. Best,Erik | |
| ROI. Where is money better spent? Better room treatment.... then better pre. :) Best,Erik | |
| To reclock or not to reclock I would go with something you could listen to. Schiit and Mytek are very very good and have as good if not better clock / jitter performance than Aries. Best,Erik | |
| Wilson Audio Haters I don't hate the Wilson's per se, it's their price vs. performance. I think they are just fine. Maybe not the smoothest or airy-est (two different things) on the top end, but certainly have good dynamic range. I do find them over-bearing. Their la... | |
| To reclock or not to reclock I have a W4S and used it between my Logitech SB Touch and previous DAC. It worked pretty well, but given everything you are contemplating, I suggest you upgrade your DAC instead. :-) Some DAC's have reclockers built in, such as Schiit. Some functi... | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? It may help to understand that a SMP acts like a low pass filter. It is always in the circuit, and has a -3 dB point of around 3 kHz. That’s really really good since most EMI/RFI filters start working at around 100 kHz. The low-pass filter is alwa... | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? The time is a little misleading. The surge protection is always on, however it has a clamping mode. It's deceptive (or overtly conservative) because the surge protection slows the surge down by a huge amount. The clamp time and clamping voltage (1... | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? Equipment fuses are not designed to protect you from electrocution, but the safety ground (that nuisance that audiophiles love to remove) and Ground Fault Current Interrupters are (like the outlets in your kitchen, I hope). GFCI trip at around 5 m... | |
| Audio Research is launching new products, "The Foundation Series" I've said this before. I find the modern ARC quite different sounding, and for me in a good way. The sterility of before is gone and they sound warm but not yet euphonic, while keeping the sound stage and openness.Regardless of their ownership, I ... | |
| Class A/B Home THeater Receivers Well, you can do a very light A/B amp if you severely power limit it. That's another reason I'm not a big fan of most receivers. I like to have 100W of "real" power (i.e. 200 @ 4 Ohms) per speaker. At 5 or 7 channels, that's quite a bit! I'd much ... | |
| Class A/B Home THeater Receivers I've heard much better Class D amps than I have Japanese receivers! May I suggest a Parasound P7 multi-channel pre-amp with your choice of amplifiers is a better option for you then? I use a P7 with an Oppo 103. The downside of this approach is yo... |