erik_squires
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| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. It is not clear if you have an attic space available. If you do, using an outdoor directional FM antenna mounted in the attic is a great idea! Best,E | |
| What kind of controller are you using for your Hi-Fi music system? Part of this is the general Wi-Fi issue. If you live or work in a heavily populated residential area, Wi Fi can be pretty unreliable thanks to channel congestion, made 2x worse by XFinity doubling up the number of channels a single router uses. Fi... | |
| A to D conversion I would talk to them, but a common issue is incorrect, or no, sample rate conversion. This could happen anywhere in the chain. I’m sure if you reach out to them they’ll respond. Best,E | |
| Aurender upgrades Tidal - MQA -Only for A10 and 20 - lesser models not worth their time This device is fully capable of producing MQA encoded streams to a DAC. What it will not do is decode MQA. This is how MQA works. The decoding firmware should be DAC specific. Having said that, I think Tidal is doing a quasi-MQA decoding if you ru... | |
| The best tweeter design You know everyone who is lauding the MBL tweeters, I wonder how much of it is really the tweeters. I mean, if you turned them off, you'd still hear most of the piano notes. :) Perhaps there is more to the MBL sound than _just_ the tweeters? Best,E | |
| The best tweeter design I should also point out, some of the very WORST tweeters I've heard were AMT's as well. Cheaply made, horrible measuring, horrible sound. Making some people rich, so what do I know?? E | |
| The best tweeter design Implementation is everything. Integration with the speaker and the room second. The material of the tweeter, or technology, a close 3rd. And I like the best AMT's over the best ribbons, and certainly over the plasma tweets. True horns.... in the ... | |
| Claritycap MR Clarity MR comes in values down to 0.01uF if you go up in voltage. :) http://partsconnexion.com/capacitor_film_claritycap_mr.htmlBest,E | |
| Recommendation for a power conditioner Look for deals on Furman's with LiFT and SMP.Best,E | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. Hi Whart,Terk used to make tiny, like 1' long black plastic models.Then at some point they made like a 2', rather large wall mountable version.Best,E | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. I wish I had a good solution. They pretty much all failed me. The best indoors was the cheap antennas IF and only IF I could turn them around correctly. You have to keep them parallel to the ground, but turning them around was what would make a h... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? AR90 somethingM&K S-1B + SubMonitor Audio Silver 6Focal Profile 918’sNow: Custom with german AMT’s, danish woofers, english capsHsu VTF-15H Mk 2, minDSP on the sub. Center channel is a cheapie DIY, design is here:https://speakermakersjourney.b... | |
| Intigrated Amp Dilemma The OP says when he takes it up to 93-93db, the sound gets a little thin. That’s odd because those speakers have a sensitivity of 91 db, so at 95 are drawing around 3-4 watts, depending on size of room and distance from speakers. Exactly the probl... | |
| Intigrated Amp Dilemma I am honestly pretty surprised. That is a pretty beefy integrated. However your description of the sound quality is very close to my only experience with those speakers. Best,E | |
| Does my laptop need to be grounded when charging? I don't know if it's normal, but the noise and ground loops of the charger have been well documented. If your DAC does not already include a USB galvanic isolator, it's a good idea to use one. They can be cheap, like $30 |