mswale
Responses from mswale
| Home-Made Multi-Subwoofer S.W.A.R.M System My HT is all Klipsch speakers including 2 subs. Yes, they do fill the room, gain is set to like 3. They go deep, and make a lot of noise, explosions are grand! However, they are on the boomy side for music. Would use them for dance music, but not ... | |
| Streamer recommendation What's wrong with using the Marantz built in? I know it can do Tidal cast. My HT system is a Marantz, Tidal works well on it, sounds good, like seeing album art and info on the TV screen. It is nice to stream multi channel audio on it. It still do... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Most vintage gear used carbon film, as they were much cheaper over metal film. Then there are carbon comp resistors that are garbage. We're talking about 1/4 and 1/2w that are the majority in all our gear. The 5w and 10w ceramic resistors are a di... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. More people are consuming music now over any other time in history. That being said, quality is not as important. Most kids use cheap earbuds, or cheap BT speakers. Most young people use Spotify, they do not offer Hi-rez streams. Not sure it's i... | |
| A controversial takes on low cost speakers with a lesson... Who knew if you moved speakers around it changed the sound? Did you see the speaker wire used? Looks like cheap came with my $50 speaker wire. Also how he stacked them, had them side by side, reflecting off a table. Did he break in any of the ... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase Guess, my ears are very different, to me Accuphase and AN are end game setups. Both sound wonderful to me. AN to me is a bit overpriced, the gear look bland. Accuphase while also being overpriced, at least looks cool. I will say Accuphase tends ... | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? On my setup, the sound stage gets bigger with volume. The sweet spot is around 95db, it's crystal clear great dynamics, and you can start to feel it. Most of time, it's around 65-70db to not disturb the rest of the house. But when I'm alone, it'... | |
| Streaming recommendations If you are getting dropouts, what are your DNS settings? Change them to google 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 It will work better, and usually gets you faster pings/returns. Stopped my video streaming drops. | |
| Ethernet Wiring ARHG! Everyone needs to stop being an Audiophile with networks. Analog signal is far different over digital packets. The same rules do not apply! Noise is not part of ethernet, noise is not part of WiFi packet transfer. Yes, the radios are noise... | |
| Seeking Advice to Improve My Audio System ($1000 Budget) Don't do anything, save up, then get speakers and a integrated amp. It will be hard to get both for $1000, think $1500 used is where to start. Then the rabbit hole will start, with better cables, better cart, etc... | |
| Best Receiver for “Mid-Fi” System? It's over your budget, and maybe above mid-fi, but Marantz SR8015 was last gen TOTL receiver. They have been closing them out for $2k, you will not get a better receiver for this price. It's heavy and huge, if you let it run in class A mode, it ... | |
| Problem with system Thinking there is an issue with your speakers, if everything else is checked ok. Bad driver, or something bad in the crossover. To really troubleshoot, you would unplug everything, clean all cables, connectors, etc... Plug it all back up, go d... | |
| My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours? Best $50 I have spent was a recap kit for my speakers. Then would be the refresh on my pre & power amp. Spiking my sub Swapping out the cheap $3 outlet for a $50 one. | |
| Network Switches So much misinformation on how networking works. TCP/IP packets are 100% digital, there is no place for noise, if there is any noise, it is not part of the packet. In networks, you want as few hops as possible. A hop is going from one device to... | |
| 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... |