mswale
Responses from mswale
| Stacking Right now, I have not run all HT wires under the floor, so my subs are stacked in the corner. It works, but it's not optimal. DSP helped, but they need to be moved. What did help was putting isolation pucks under both subs, decouple the subs fro... | |
| Satellite radio tuners XM sounds like poop. Streaming is the "best" format for satellite radio. There are dedicated tuners, but really, just stream through a device. XM are also thieves! Try to cancel your subscription. You will be on the phone for 2+ hours. After tha... | |
| use of ChatGPT for HIFI AI, is just a data mine. Right now, all it is doing is creating a data lake, using your inquires to gain more data. Sometimes it gets it right, other times it does not. You still need to FACT CHECK AI. | |
| Best practices for speaker cabinet care My speakers are from 1989, they get Howards wood care on them. They look almost new after all this time. Also use it on most of my vintage MCM furniture. Spray on a MF towel, wipe speakers, buff off, done. Do it every couple months. The bigger ... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @invalid I'm not saying that they are bad caps, just bright/detailed. Have used them in both ribbon and horn speakers, they were too much for them. Think more modern less sensitive speakers will benefit from them, also any speaker on the darker ... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Danny is Danny, at least we learn something from what he is saying, get a better understanding on how speakers work. Almost every speaker I have torn into has had cheap, or really cheap crossover parts. Even some more expensive speakers still ha... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers Pull your speakers out when listening. They should be a few feet out from your TV. So many HT (mine as well) have the speakers in-line or just in front of the TV. Have has great luck with heavy HT curtains, they work so well for windows, maybe p... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes "@sns Still, one can benefit from a 'clean' home network." This needs to be clearly defined. Are we talking about a clean network, or clean components from an audiophile stance? Sadly, us audio guys try to treat networking like our stereo systems... | |
| What is your scariest moment in High End audio? Vintage setup, so anything can happen. Added a sub a few months ago. Sounded great after getting it all sorted. Thought I'd swap out the speaker cables from the amp to the sub. 4ft of 10g wired in, over the zip cord that was thrown in for setup.... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Just a warning, before everyone goes out and purchases enterprise networking gear. DON'T! Not unless you fully understand networking, layering, NAT, porting, etc.. Most of all know CLI commands. These switches are super hard to setup and maintain.... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments @captouch that looks like a great music room. Think I understand better at what is going on. Everything looks a bit compressed, and yes, the room is filled. You might have a lot of speaker/power for that room, but that's ok. Had a thought, if yo... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering Every room, and every system is different. My take is don't buy new stuff until you need it. Also what is the problem you are trying to solve for? Like are you missing bass, or are you missing deep bass? Run the mains full spread, add the sub, ad... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments You got a few issues going on. Think you have a couple nulls going on. The bass energy spike 30-40 is huge, then that massive hole at 50-80. Some peaks in the middle, with treble dropping off. This tells me you have a boomy setup, with bright mi... | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! Yeah, if they are on the way out, it will be a drastic before/after! Done a couple sets of Vintage speakers now, the improvements have been huge! Almost like getting new speakers. Depending on the replacement quality, it can be done fairly cheaply... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? There are a few different things going on here. 1. Most speakers comes crap crossovers. Even with higher end speakers, there are compromises with the crossovers. Any company will skimp on parts for profit. Putting in higher end parts of the same... |