erik_squires
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| You want the TRUTH from those Wilson Alexia's, maybe you can't handle the TRUTH @ivanj Electrical panels are rated by amps, not watts, but I get your point. :) Fortunately most audio equipment is reasonably efficient at idle. Unless you plan to run those amps near peak power, I suspect most audiophiles will have no trouble at... | |
| Martin Logan Motion 35xt Or B&W Cdm-1SE I have only heard the B&W's. If you aren't going for an ESL, then I'd consider Monitor Audio as better. I always felt Dynaudio speakers shouted. I'm probably by myself there too. Erik | |
| Adding a 2nd Sub to a 2 Channel System @limniscate You can't localize a single sub either, when "properly integrated". I defy anyone to hear either my main speakers or my sub as distinct sound sources. :) Again, it's all about configuration, and configuring a sub is a major PITA. :) B... | |
| Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever Sophia Loren. http://www.italymagazine.com/news/bing-bang-bong-sophia-loren-her-music-performances | |
| High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real? I'd say room treatment was more important than speakers. :) In the sense that once you have good room treatment you won't swap it out, but you may change speakers a dozen times. It's also a bit of a chicken and egg problem though. Consider for i... | |
| My Daughter changed my Subwoofer settings! Phase is highly distance and crossover dependent. No reason to invert it as a default. Also, receivers may correct for distance, making a paper and pencil calculation of phase irrelevant. Best,Erik | |
| KEF 205.2 or B&W 802D2? Delpi Good observations.... :) Erik | |
| Center Splice Speaker Wire @gdhal Copper is a great material. One cool thing about it is that copper oxide is just as conductive as copper. That is, even after oxidizing it still works pretty well. :) Despite this, I still use WBT for my speakers. :D :D :D | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup Hi GIC,I wrote a blog about it actually. The short answer is, you use Ubuntu with Logitech Media Server. The complementary Android app I use is Squeezer but I believe there are others as well. http://inatinear.blogspot.com/2016/08/ubuntu-mytek-br... | |
| My Daughter changed my Subwoofer settings! Refer to your receiver's manual then. :) It has built in room correction, and will need to be re-calibrated. Set the Low Pass filter to as high a Hz as you can, and let the receiver do the rest.Best,Erik | |
| KEF 205.2 or B&W 802D2? Um, that you should listen to the top of the line Monitor Audio before making any choices. Also, if you will use this for movies at all, pay particular attention to the clarity of voices, especially when very soft. Now that I think about it, that'... | |
| My Daughter changed my Subwoofer settings! Um, depends actually on your processor. What are you using, and how did you calibrate the sub? Usually, with fancy shmancy HT processors, you want the subwoofer to be "out of the way" of the HT settings. For that you can find instructions in the ... | |
| High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real? My own experience, having owned a Theta Casanova long after it’s prime, is that it’s sadly very much still touch and go. More than a decade after the Casanova was out of production it was still better sounding than a lot of mass market processors ... | |
| You want the TRUTH from those Wilson Alexia's, maybe you can't handle the TRUTH @mapman No, I didn't say 10 watts was enough. What I meant was that too often reviewers focus on things like S/N at maximum output. If you have a 700 Watt amplifier, it may have a better S/N than a 100 watt amp, but in my house could be 4 times no... | |
| You want the TRUTH from those Wilson Alexia's, maybe you can't handle the TRUTH @roxy54 Hahahahaha. :) Not far off the mark of the old SAE. Haven't heard the latest. While I appreciate power, I'm with Nelson Pass. I'm much more interested in the performance of an amp between 0 and 10 watts than 10 and 100. Best,Erik |