erik_squires
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| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? Furman P-2400 - 20A with built in voltage regulation, series mode protection and linear filtering. The one caveat is that for any power conditioner you run into the issue of attaching dirty power supplies to the clean side and re-polluting it, ... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I'll be done when I'm dead. :) I have a music and movie system I'm very happy with but as a builder and DIYer being done is like being dead. Even if it's a project every couple of years the passion to try something else will always be with me.... | |
| Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre? Read up on the Double Diamond circuitry, its the real deal Yes, I have, and while I do like the sound it's also IMHO kind of unique. so much so that I feel it's an amplifier that I might really like but not sure you would. What a differenc... | |
| Speaker internal amp shutting off due to heat What kind of monster can listen to music in 85 degrees?? Ok, seriously though, may just not be designed to run in such heat. Talk to ML and consider a fan on the back of the units. If they are 100% sealed they may do all their cooling through t... | |
| Mixing Crossover Caps..., What Would You Do??? What is the goal? Where is this cap used? | |
| 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... | |
| 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. :) |