erik_squires
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| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? A good pear brandy, or Green Dot Irish Whiskey | |
| What is the current equivalent to the Logitech streamers? You can use Squeezelite to make a lot of devices act like Logitech streamers. Especially useful with old Android phones you have lying around the house. :) I use a real Squeezebox Touch in my bedroom, but a PC with USB 2.0 to my DAC in the living ... | |
| SS Amp for Triangle Speakers I'd also recommend the middle-of-the-road Wireworld speaker cables as being able to take some of that brightness off. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? @geoffkait Then please tell me a model to mathematically describe the effects of microphonics and vibration. Lacking that, it IS trial and error and devoid of engineering. Weren’t you a few pages back arguing it was impossible to use basic enginee... | |
| Any News on MQA Lately? @emailists Well, read Benchmark's blog on the matter. To them it IS a seriously flawed system. Their points are accurate too, but I'm not sure about audibility. Personally I was really excited about the "digital origami" idea, when I thought it wa... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Remember that in audio, the FTC sets some standards, but doesn't measure the gear. It's up to the equipment makers to measure and make claims, and occasionally magazines test them to see how close they are to the specifications. We are far from a... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations My experience with silver coated copper in speaker cables is not very positive. It starts out harsh and then eventually gets to the same level of performance as copper. My experience with solid silver interconnects on the other hand is quite posit... | |
| Looking for laptop Windows 10 for music only. Does it have to be a laptop? I use a DIY 2TB 16 GB micro tower which cost $650. I do use Xubuntu with Logitech Media Server though, so didn’t even pay for Windows. Eat that Microsoft! Hahah. :) I could add a mega-graphics card if I wanted serious ... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations I was suggesting DIY for the Connex cables my friend. Well under that for a self-made pair. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? It is quite possible we are approaching the real problem the wrong way. What if the real issues are not that electronic signals are being contaminated by vibrations, but that we are hearing our equipment stands resonate? Same for cables. I could ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Hi @folkfreak Anything mechanical and spinning has known susceptibility to vibration noise, including CD’s, DVD’s and of course phonograph players. I wouldn’t be surprised if CD players were susceptible to jitter or even flat-out read errors with ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Erik -- I have nothing to add to your comments, best take them up with Shunyata directly. That's far beyond the level of attention this deserves. :) Best,Erik | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? As I've said before, testing and measuring the benefits of vibration control in home audio should be easy, and inexpensive. I've yet to see the loop closed. Doing this work could lead to cheaper and better sounding equipment when we have definite,... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? @folkfreak 2) Grand Prix Audio racking systems -- which include a variety of isolation methods including ball/cup feet exactly to deal with floor borne vibration (Apex footers)http://www.grandprixaudio.com/research http://www.grandprixaudio.com/... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? 1) Shunyata Dark Field Elevators for cable isolationhttp://www.shunyata.com/images/technical_features/dfss-chart.jpgIf the claim is that these images demonstrate the benefits of cable vibration isolators then I call BS. Notice please:The time (5 m... |