erik_squires
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| Single ended vs xlr balanced It's important to note that pro gear is different than consumer gear. Pro gear usually converts the balanced signal to single-ended immediately, and feeds it's inputs with that, until it's output, when it is again balanced by adding a negative pha... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? Here is an example of an internal crossover being turned external, check out the pic with the coffee cup and caps. You'll see what I mean when I say enormous caps. http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue70/duelund.htmBest,Erik | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? SAE is back baby! :) Althought it's now another ATI label. Yes, I do remember them, at least in pictures. Sumo started to go the same way too. Aesthetically Sumo is a brand I wish was back. Best,Erik | |
| Advice on using a laser for speaker positioning I have decided to be a lot more relaxed and get used to speakers that are just not that fussy. :) Having said that, I use a Bosh laser level that is relatively inexpensive ($50)http://amzn.to/2bqLdbZIt projects a line instead of a dot, making it e... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 And I convinced you to do this without explaining the major part of the upgrade! :) Please be careful opening up tube gear. Voltages inside are LETHAL at 300V or higher. This is different than solid state, that is rarely over 15V for a preamp, 60V... | |
| PS Audio CD Memory Transport?? Yes Or NO I'm not sure if you have USB 2.0 support or not. If so, any streamer, or any home built PC should do a very good job feeding a USB 2.0 capable DAC that is driverless for Linux/OSX. I built my own 2TB server/streamer for around $600 to feed a Mytek... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 It's kind of funny, but kind of true that a good tube preamp is:"A bunch of the very best caps money can buy surrounded by tubes and other such nonsense"By the way, only 1 or 2 caps per channel are coupling. The rest are power supply related, or f... | |
| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 Caps do a lot of thing, but unfortunately in tube preamps they are a necessary evil we wish we could avoid. The biggest issue with caps in a tube preamp are the caps used in the signal path, and are almost never neutral or transparent enough, so g... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? The Parasound Int is a pretty sweet combo! I also really really like the ARC Integrated I heard a while ago. OK, I think I answered my own question. I think if I had a single brand, of which I cannot afford ANY, it would be Ayre. :) Not sure I'd t... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? Its just a thought experiment. if you had to commit to a single electronics brand you could afford, who would that be? | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? I think besides MBL we're missing the big guns too, no one has really stood up for modern Krell, Mark Levinson (did I miss it?) Boulder or Ayre. I'm really surprised, since I usually like what I hear from Ayre. Never heard Boulder or ML. Can you ... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? My bad, I was thinking of Perreaux, which it turns out is from New Zealand, not France! | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? Can be, and ARE as good is not the same thing. Devil is always in the implementation. I mean, I am open to the idea of a preamp with a great built-in phono stage, like I am open to the idea of an integrated with a great built-in DAC, but I'd be ... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out Could happen. The cutter is an analog lathe, so it’s definitely possible that the master for the LP was cut when one channel stopped working. These pressing masters need to be re-cut every so many LP's, so it's quite possible that in a large run o... | |
| pc computer used under $500.00 for music only You can also do what I did with a Raspberri Pi 3 by the way. :) I've not tried it, but once you have Ubuntu on it the same ideas apply. |