erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Wow, I barely follow this thread but based on the A’gon headlines I’ve definitely learned that Danny Richie has a lot of opinions. | |
| ICEpower 125ASX2 front end I'm not sure... if you mean a preamp, then my experience with the ASP line was that they were a little on the warm side. Close to Parasound Halo, like the A23 but also good candidates for Parasound's P7, which worked REALLY well with mine. | |
| Ethernet Wiring I’m late to this discussion. Yeah, running Ethernet in a duct is probably not a great idea. My biggest issue is that when you have long runs of Ethernet they can inductively pick up a lightning surge. I recommend the use of medical grade (U... | |
| Network Switches I use fiber conversion but only to air-gap my cable modem from my router. This is mostly to deny lightning this path to all my expensive electronics in the house. It comes at a cost however in that I now have 2 additional power supplies to deal ... | |
| Network Switches My advice is that switches upstream don't matter. Bad power supplies do. Keep your networking power supplies (i.e. wall warts) off your clean power area. Use a separate conditioner if you need to, and consider using iFi power supplies for the... | |
| If there is one thing you could change in your current system. What would it be? Besides better organization of my living room the only gear I have seriously heard that was just so spectacularly better than current is perhaps the CAT preamp and Vandersteen amp. Yes, they make an amp. Besides that I’ve heard incremental diff... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Lets talk cheap big film caps for the bass section. A number of people I've trusted have reported positive experiences from switching caps from bipolar to film. I believe Solen has an even cheaper brand named Axon which is useful here. My one c... | |
| Subwoofer Phase Control AFAIK the "phase" control is really just a delay, with a theoretical 180 degrees being the equivalent of 1/2 the travel time of the upper frequency. So for a subwoofer with a 100 Hz max 180 degrees would be 1/200 = 0.005 milliseconds (if I did th... | |
| Sub for 2 Channels Those aren’t really subs, by our normal definitions. Those really are woofers with deep bass. In other words, you have a 3-way speaker system with more conventional 3-way crossover points. Most residential subwoofers are not really meant to g... | |
| Acoustics experts - a little help please Yes, you need to treat the ceiling, especially between speaker and listener. It can make old home theaters sound like they have atmos. Also, we can somewhat compensate for lack of treatments elsewhere here. If you are having resonance/room mode... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers OP: go over to the Multi-way speaker forum and you'll find lots of helpful and knowledgeable people with very strong opinions to share. :) | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers A great place to stop in and ask builders is diyaudio.com | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers @larryi - The OP asked about a folded horn, which is different than a back-loaded horn. The typical example is a Klipsch corner horn or La Scala. As their name implies, they are horns... but the folding reduces the floor space. They fire into t... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers I may not be entirely correct here, but I think of folded horns as horns and TL as competitors to the ported enclosure. That is, horns gain efficiency through the improved impedance match of the driver to the air via the horn. The TL however AFA... | |
| Voltage conversion of Accuphase A-300 For whatever reason, I've seen several online discussions about converting Accuphase integrateds which seems straightforward. Sadly not true for Luxmans whicha re not convertible. |