russbutton
Responses from russbutton
| Is bi amping worth it ? @phusis Most of the pro grade active crossovers do not have DSP EQ, particularly the low cost ones. Active crossovers have been around for at least 60 years. DSP EQ as a feature is relatively new. I have a miniDSP DDRC24, so I know what they ca... | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? @billpete I believe that John Curl is the chief designer for Parasound, so their amps are going to be very good. I don't know that Krell is better than Parasound. I just know that they are more expensive. I like to say that today's $10,000 wond... | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? @billpete Active crossovers and equalizers are totally different animals. Let's first understand the difference between active and passive crossovers. A passive crossover is an electronic circuit that has no power supply. It is just a circuit ... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole @soix I am quite familiar with the timing issue. I added a reclocker to my system and heard no effect as a result. That being said, a good DAC should have a sufficiently large buffer that would make timing a non-issue. The big thing about al... | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? @emergingsoul The chart attached to my post shows the impedence of the tweeter I reference, which is the bottom curve you see there. When people design a passive crossover, they assume that the impedence is constant over all frequencies, but th... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole @goodlistening64 I am aware of reclockers for digital connection between a PC and a DAC. I run Linux on a dedicated PC, with JRiver as the music manager. I dropped $200 on a reclocker and didn't hear a difference. I've never heard a differen... | |
| Wasted Years. @o_holter Getting permission of the artists to record is essential of course. My wife is a professional violinist, so I get permission to record any chamber music events she plays in. I recently recorded an antique theatre organ by chatting up t... | |
| My New System If you like the sound and your wife accepts the way it looks, then you have success. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? OK folks. Listen up. Here's WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency dependent, reactive load to an amplifier. Looking at the image here, the blue line on the ... | |
| The law of diminshing returns? P.T. Barnum was right. | |
| Wasted Years. Go listen to live music. I took in a concert tonight of a Schubert String Quintet. Amazing piece of music. All local professional players. What's even more fun is to get together a decent recording rig and go capture it live and then compare w... | |
| Streamers rabbit hole Bits is bits. The DAC doesn't care where the bits come from. All of those expensive streamers are just Linux boxes running custom software. No end of suckers in audio. | |
| God, I hate to ask this… This is something all of us come to. Do you deal with it on your terms or not? I'm sure a lot of gear goes cheap at estate sales, or unscrupulous local buyers take advantage of windows and such. Your best move on the records is to call a couple... | |
| SS amp or receiver that sounds like Tube Amp The MOSFET amps from B&K and Sumo had a very tube-like quality to them. Very affordable too. | |
| Streamer Options Needed If it ainʻt broke, donʻt fix it. |