jaytor
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| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? @jerryg123 - Thanks. I haven't had a chance to work on optimizing position or sub settings yet, but just plopped down they sound stunning. The detail is better than my Audeze LCD-2 headphones and vocals sound like the singer is right there in fron... | |
| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? @bdp24 - Thanks. I might have mentioned that I owned Tympani IVs in the mid 80's. I used Entec subwoofers (one of the first servo controlled designs), but I was never able to get these to fully integrate. I imagine that your OB subs work MUCH bett... | |
| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? I've been waiting to finish building these speakers for two years. I ordered enough Bohlender-Graebener NEO10 drivers from Parts Express before they became unavailable. But the company building the cabinets for me ran into Covid supply chain issue... | |
| Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects I second Mike's suggestion to get some cables made from Mogami W2549. You'd have to spend quite a bit more to get better cables. In my experience (with the Terminator and Terminator Plus), the Denafrips DACs perform much better when using balanc... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp I'm also a strong believer in using high quality film caps. I've had good luck with V-cap ODAMs (very neutral and clear) and Miflex KPCU (a bit warmer with a beautiful midrange tone). A couple things to keep in mind. These caps all take a few hu... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects The adapter that Emotiva sells does not do balanced to unbalanced conversion. It just dtops the negative phase signal, so you aren't getting any of the benefits of a balanced connection (significantly reduced common mode noise and elimination of g... | |
| Maybe this is the winter you build something! After almost 40 years of not doing any DIY (used to build stuff in college), I decided to build a pair of speakers (just before Covid hit). I got a lot of satisfaction from it and it rekindled my interest in doing more. Since then, I've built a st... | |
| Component placement for open baffles? I found that moving the equipment to the side wall improved the depth and image precision of the soundstage. I also far prefer diffusion behind the speakers over absorption, but I have my OB speakers about 7ft into the room (measured from the fron... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects The amp and preamp do not have to be fully balanced to get benefit from XLR cables. While it is true that the simple adaptors that convert XLR to RCA are pretty much worthless, the device linked by @holmz is not a simple adapter. This box includes... | |
| Theoretical battery power supply question There is no telling how good the inverter is in this unit. It could produce a ton of distortion and be way worse than your grid power. | |
| Warming up digital in my setup Also look at the Border Patrol DAC. Very warm sounding and reasonably priced. | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range I added a Denafrips Gaia DDC to my Terminator (original with DSP upgrade) and used an i2S connection between the Gaia and DAC. I was very surprised by the improvement. More dynamic, smoother sounding, and improved sound stage. I've since upgrade... | |
| Speakers need to be placed close to back wall. Help I heard a system at the Pacific Audio Fest that delivered amazing performance for the money. It's a pair of small stand-mount active speakers from Vanatoo. They sell for $599 and are driven by a digital source (USB, spdif, or Bluetooth). They incl... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest My favorite overall was the Alsyvox/Pillium system. This was the only system that I would happily replace my own system with. I was actually really disappointed by the Genesis system, although it could have been the material they were playing o... | |
| Krell anticipator circuits of the 1990s Based on the way this circuit works, it should easily be able to keep up with a low frequency dynamic spike. By the time the waveform returns to the zero crossing, the bias will have been adjusted so the other half of the output transistors are bi... |