holmz
Responses from holmz
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? Yeah thanks Jim. I already have the old SE version and 2W… but if I switch to XLR amps then the M5/M7 XO maybe makes sense. I am still rubbing my pate on whether to do that. … and whether to update the sub. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nice New Nishia Smith “friends with Monsters” on pink vinyl. A bit of surface noise and definitely it is pressed on yeah hotter side, so tracking is a challenge. But pretty oiled school lounge sound is nice. | |
| How To Connect a DAC? My active speakers are BeoLab 8000’s. My room is 20’ x 40’ with mostly hard surfaces, but also broken up by furniture, protruding bookshelves, etc. The only option for treatment is ceiling absorbent panels. Is there a rug on the floor? Or a cou... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience Now discussion of how signal is actually transmitted through a SUT would be quite interesting: does the signal actually move through the wound wire? As we know, the electrons in a wire don’t travel. . . do you think that the signal is rather tran... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? I keeping getting a “verify you a human” when trying to send a message, and in a never ending cycle… (We might need to try a forum that specific to the brand.) | |
| How To Connect a DAC? Keep and use the Node 3. Trying to add a separate DAC is a futile endeavor at best. For real sound improvement buy a better pair of speakers. Don't pay attention to the audiophools who spend thousands on DAC's and streamers! @jasonbourne52 ... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl Thanks, that is good to know. | |
| How To Connect a DAC? I am cautiously optimistic that a separate DAC will sound better. I doubt it… but I am not an optimist 😀 If you could describe what is lacking, or how it could be better then it can be easier to determine whether it might be better than the N... | |
| How To Connect a DAC? How do you think a separate DAC will help? If it sounds good, then there could be other places where you might more benefits. Do your active speakers have any room correction stuff built in? Ideas: I note that my DAC has only XLRs and what l... | |
| Sound is better when I stand up? tom_guyette it would be the latter. It's plush and upholstered which means I'm definitely, according to your observations, getting some absorption mids and highs Ah… no. (He is saying the opposite.) The sound hits your ears first. Then it boun... | |
| Open Baffle Experience But, that’s his specialty and sole reason for being. My guess is he isn’t allowed to leave his padded room enough to get out and actually listen to anything. Also notice he never discloses what’s in his system. Hmmm He may have more than one... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? another vote for the teflon high pass filters ;-) I call them the Kento filters but they are as @raindog911 pointed out a great low cost upgrade. Ah JIm - I see my problem now, the exponent on “my low cost” differs. (The mantissa is ok though... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? Top tip for the Vandy lovers with external subs (2WQ or Sub3), I recently upgraded my M5-HP filters to M5-HP TEF filters. @raindog911 are you moving your older (non TEF) crossovers on? | |
| Enough noise reduction? what makes them better is the rectangular shape of The wire greatly reduces the skin effect, @urbie But I thought that skin effect was mostly something affected high frequencies and the power cord is 50 or 60 Hz? As we approach DC the entire ... | |
| Sound is better when I stand up? If one like films, then later in Jan in the PSFF, and that and their summer film festival are both good for film loving types. We wing back, winged horses, and now a winged plane. What is next? Paul McCartney and wings? |