erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| What happened to Berkeley Audio Design I’m curious what you think made products introduced in 2014 or this year new. I have no evidence of a truly vibrant engineering effort at BAD. I see more effort on marketing materials and cases. Out of many features that could have been added, or ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil @dgarretson Fair enough. For comparison, what is the size of the new 4.7uF and 10uF caps at each voltage?Your explanations would definitely explain my own findings. :) Guess I should stock up on small CM's for bypasses. :) Best,Erik | |
| Oppo 105 DAC vs. Bluesound Vault DAC In this case "perception is reality" That is, your ears are the final judge of what, if anything is better, so if you can't hear a difference, rejoice! :) Use whatever connections you like the most. However, I would encourage you to listen to musi... | |
| What piece(s) of equipment would you most like to try? The big Gryphons and big Tidal speakers side by side. | |
| Please Help!! looking to get into computer audio. @brenro I'm not sure what your core problem is though. :) Are you saying you don't like downloads? If so, you are exactly the sort of person MQA was designed for. It offers to compress high resolution audio several fold without loss.The Ayre IS a... | |
| Please Help!! looking to get into computer audio. Gee @dtc it took a lot of typing before you got what I was saying and got mad at me for it. I like ASRC by the way, and buffering and stuff like that. I don’t think the engineers at Bryston are crap. I just don’t think all jitter reduction solutio... | |
| Moving From USA Overseas... Looking For Advice re: Electrical Service and Gear Battery’s are no cure-all. They have a lot of effective source resistance, unless you use a car battery type device! :) Dear god, please don’t use equipment designed to be grounded in an ungrounded situation! At the very least add GFCI protected o... | |
| Moving From USA Overseas... Looking For Advice re: Electrical Service and Gear inna,As far as I know, PS Audio did a lot of listening tests and modeling of power supplies. They concluded at the end that while they could make things sound different it wasn’t really better.Their current units actually provide the equivalent of... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 Great! Chris is a great guy. I buy parts from PCX all the time. Let me know what upgrade you get and how it sounds. :) I'm unable to switch right now because of my 5.1 needs... but the SP3 has always been one of those romances I wish I had commi... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 True. Some of the caps they are using now are a huge improvement over what was available 20 years or so ago. Worthwhile. I honestly don’t know of a preamp that is inherently better than the SF 3. I know of a lot using more modern or more expensive... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 Hehe. If I wasn't still unpacking I would have told you that your pre-amplifer was absolutely garbage but for $50 I would help take it off your hands..... :D :D :D | |
| Room Acoustic treatment suggestions, ideas & recommendations Get some free consulting from the pro’s at GIK Acoustics. They know their stuff and their products are very effective and affordable. I’d start there for the very best information. Best,Erik | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 Have you thought of some upgrades for your SF L3? Ask at PartsConnexion. The owner was a founder of SF. :) I'd ask around though, I loved the SF preamps I heard, but have not kept up with tubes at all. I'm just mentioning it as a way to go, witho... | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? Just to be clear, I am moving away from the SB Touch, but keeping the Logitech Media Server (LMS) infrastructure. I'll be using that with Squeezelite to drive my new DAC via USB 2.0 directly. Yahoo! :) Erik | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? @mapman I did too, but after trying and failing to get my ARC DAC 8 to sound as good as it did in the store I have come to the conclusion that despite the reasonably good Stereophile measurements it was not working as well as I would like. I stron... |