erik_squires
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| Powering a center channel with a two channel amp Huh, well, I guess I’ll have to talk with my McIntosh guy about that. Everything I read on the web suggested or said that center channel audio couldn’t be amplified correctly with a left or right channel from the amp. @vacerator I’ve been in... | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? @ghdprentice - He had a large team of very talented artists working with him, but point taken. I know Focal would attempt to emphasize a sense of modernism in their products. | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? Well blow me down, ATC has a similarly priced but much nicer looking model, the SCM200ASLT. $75k but what, no Blutooth? What a scam! https://tmraudio.com/floorstanding-speakers/atc-scm200aslt-active-floorstanding-speakers-pair/ Ok, personal a... | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? @love2fly59 - "largely reflection free cabinet" - Oh, hahahahahah. $70,000 for a speaker no one objects to. "Best sounding streaming speaker" - Seriously what is the competition, and how many of those are made by Logitech... At those... | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? Here we go, I know who the designer is now, at only $740 you can get a matching travel bag: | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? I am not a fan but that is all this is, just another example of a design that seeks attention. Well thank goodness we are here to give it just that! @dhite71 | |
| Powering a center channel with a two channel amp Um, what?? Anyway I can interpret this it all seems too complicated. The center is NOT the sum of the L and R signals, whether we are talking Dolby ProLogic or 5.1. The center out from your AVR is the only viable input. As for amps, you cou... | |
| Just got a new power amp Hey @fastfreight When an amp or preamp has XLR inputs there are three things that may be done: Ground one signal pin. Use a transformer to convert to single ended Use op amps in differential configuration Very very rare - use discrete ci... | |
| Kef KC62 subwoofer, stock power cord (oem cable) only 18 awg? Assuming about a 20% loss in efficiency you'd need 10 Amps for 1,000 Watts = 16 gauge more or less. Feel free to upgrade to 14. I always recommend cheap shielded cables to minimize noise radiation. | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade OP: I'm a big fan of the Rogue Cronus Magnum or CJ integrateds. Considering what you are using now, I think they'd be super interesting for you, especially given the tube-friendly nature of Fritz speakers. | |
| A/V receiver and Legacy Focus SE speakers The issue with these speakers is the impedance is punishing in the bass. I remember going over these speakers with anohter A'goner who managed to do a lot of measurements. The entire speaker crossover left me scratching my head as to their goa... | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? I missed perhaps the most important part of the measurements for the small version: The low-level modes up to ~2kHz are linked to the side-mounted woofers and aesthetic cladding. Essentially these cabinets ring like cardboard boxes. | |
| Using optical Ethernet input for your Hifi Rose RS130 You'd have to stream 100 high res music streams at once to use up that bandwidth. The big advantage IMHO is that the cable won't transmit noise to other components or cables and being lightning proof. :) | |
| Using optical Ethernet input for your Hifi Rose RS130 Hey OP: As I understand it, the router may have an SFP+ port, but that just expands the speed of the modules you can plug into it and the port itself is backwards compatible with SFP modules usually. Obviously, you are limited by the lowest com... | |
| Fritz carbon 7SE MK 2, Upgrade I have no experience with KEF recently but the Reference 1 Meta are among the hardest speakers to driver right now, a strong counter point to Fritz which are among the easiest. Given the OP's amp this may not matter. |