erik_squires
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| Outboard crossover? Why not? @bombaywalla The Apogee's had no real speaker cabinet though, did they? :) I mean, it was one giant magnet frame.I did not write anything about advantages of active vs. passive, by the way, at least not here. :) It's more complicated than one or t... | |
| Active and passive preamp in one chain ? I misread. sorry. i missed you were playing vinyl. its not passive vs. Active, but that you lack a phono stage, or phono preamp at all.These are funky beasts. not only do they provide high gain, they must equalize the sound. the eq curve is to... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? I didnt say all inner crossovers were bad, but that ther could be benefits of externals. an active crossover is before the amplifier. its called active because it needs a power supply. the subwoofer output of a dvd player is a type of active cr... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? Inna, I’m assuming you are discussing having a passive crossover, that is outside of the speaker cabinet, right? There are no disadvantages at all, but several possible advantages. I should point out there’s a hybrid approach. In this, there is a ... | |
| OPPO BDP-103 (NON Darby) So one compelling reason to get the 105... USB 2.0 music output. You should double check, but I believe they added this feature in a firmware upgrade. The 103 does not get it though. :( Erik | |
| Active and passive preamp in one chain ? Inna,That's not necessarily a terrible thing. You have gain, but it's in the amplifier. Having a single gain stage is usually a very good thing, less distortion, less noise, less parts to optimize. This is by no means a weird situation. Having sai... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... I would only take albums I hate, so that I'd not get sick of music I actually liked! However, in the spirit of putting together a "best of" list.....My list is based on moods, not sound quality or microgasmic dynamic detail or anything like that.... | |
| What does "voiced" mean to you? Usually in speaker design it means that the designer stopped measuring and made tweaks based on subjective listening impression. Changing the "voice" of a speaker if you will. This can be very small such as trying out a bypass capacitor, or bigger... | |
| Options for full-featured music servers/streamers? @monte_15 My Perl scripts are clean and easy to read. :-) I'm like the Perl developer none of the "real" perl developers like. But I get it. Sometimes it's a lot less frustrating to write a script than fight a "wizard" though, or the naming form... | |
| Convert Conrad Johnson MF-2500 from 110V to 220V Why don't you ask them? THey have great customer service. They could easily look up whether that transformer was dual voltage.Best,Erik | |
| Retooling the system upward?? What speakers would be a major upgrade over GET model 7's? @samac I like Monitor Audio a great deal, it would be interesting to know if Sunny likes them as I don't think they'll sound the same. Based on liking GE I didn't think they were for him, but listening is free. :) Sunny should definitely give them... | |
| Retooling the system upward?? What speakers would be a major upgrade over GET model 7's? Hi @sunnyjimI would focus on the mid-treble. If you fell in love with the treble of them, then you should focus on speakers that have those qualities but are even better. I would think that if you really like the GE speakers, and want to step up ... | |
| Marantz and Stereophile? @264win I’m no Stereophile fanboy, but at the end of the day they only have so much space. After they are done reviewing $130,000 speakers 5 of their readers can listen to and 1 might buy, or the hearing aids they sing the praises for, there’s onl... | |
| Know of a "Dirt Cheap" tweak? Mass. Adding weight to woofer enclosures may help definition. Bricks on top, whatever you have handy. :) Especially good for 2 and 2.5 ways with the woofers closer to the tweeter than the floor. | |
| Are there used/mint balanced pre-amp with a few unblanced inputs under $2000?? @timlub It was a very long time ago, back when Roger Sanders still owned InnerSound, and before he began Sanders Sound. We demoed the Coda preamp with the Electrostatic Amp, also made by Coda. They were in two different leagues I'm afraid. I'm gla... |