mwatsme
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| Ultimate test of bass - Lana del Rey's A&W I tend to like Lana Del Rey, but if A&W is the best track on the album - maybe not my taste. Sounds a lot like Billie Eilish to me (at least I'd put them in the same category). Cool of her to make something unusual. Try Maggie Rogers' Alaska f... | |
| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? I find that my interest in listening is sporatic. Sometimes its obsession, other times I couldn't care less about it. When to listen... I have a routine where every Friday evening (after work and before dinner, I sit down and do the bills. I have... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... I have a set of Morrow speaker cables (SP2 or 4?) about 4 years now. I was neither dissapointed nor thrilled with any difference in sound. They are well-made, very bendable, somewhat unique in design and length to order. These days I make my own c... | |
| Qobuz dropping rights to my favorites. A pox on their house. @kletter1mann The same culling happens on Amazon/Prime Music including the most expensive HD Family plan that I switched to from Tidal. And it can be very frustrating when tracks suddenly disappear from custom playlists. Not only that, but on Amaz... | |
| Crimping tool? $450 for a tool to crimp Tin connectors for hifi!? I hope you are crimping a US-Ton of those connectors, but if so - you might just buy an automatic computer-controlled stripping/crimping machine for the same cost... https://www.aliexpress.us/item... | |
| Crimping tool? Ideally, you want a tool that has jaws shaped like this. They are shaped to roll the crimp and strain-relief then punch them down to 'bite' the wire. This is very difficult to do correctly with normal crimper or needle-nose pliers, etc. (almost... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll For 2-ch system, I use NcoreMP, 6 channels (LXmini + subs) use 0.8 A (120VAC = 96W) including power to N130 - everything runs cold. For HT system, the Denon X6400H (class A/B) runs so hot, I added a cooling fan, which is very noisy when it turns ... | |
| Open Baffle Experience LXmini plans are available here: Phoenix open-baffle sub plans are free from Linkwitz Labs website, here: https://www.linkwitzlab.com/woofer.htm The specific Phoenix[alt] version I built is here: https://www.linkwitzlab.com/woofer3.ht... | |
| Mesh network versus a simple Wi-Fi extender The purpose of Mesh is seamless transition between wireless routers for mobile devices that are actually moving through the coverage area. I use a higher-end Asus (6 antennas I think) as the master and three Asus AC1900's (Ethernet-connected) 'nod... | |
| Open Baffle Experience @reimarc Those 521's are beautiful. I've never heard them, but have a spare 4x10HD and 12-ch amp and intend to build them one day. | |
| Open Baffle Experience @twoleftears For those interested, that track was Birds by Dominique Fils-Aimé from the album Nameless. Nice track. | |
| Open Baffle Experience @coralkong I switched to OB speakers (Emerald Physics) a while ago, and I don't think I could ever go back to a box speaker. ...they sound absolutely glorious when you get them dialed in. Anyone who tells you differently is talking out of th... | |
| Open Baffle Experience @erik_squires I get edge diffraction, but my speakers have 1/2" rounds on the edges and I defy anyone to tell me they can hear where the speaker is. If a box is unavoidable, it should definitely have the largest radius edges possible, and ide... | |
| Open Baffle Experience @jaytor Wave-guides, yes that makes more sense, open-back - nice! One of the things that has prevented me from pursuing large front baffle designes (like Spatial, Pure Audio Project, Caintuk, etc.) is one of the same problems I hear with box spea... | |
| Open Baffle Experience Spatial Audio sounds better to me - which is surprising since I'm not a fan of horns, and tend to ignore all but the most botique giant horn models. What did you use to record that? Recordings sound great! |