erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Help me replace ancient speakers - or not Monitor Audio should be your neutral-reference to start with. Funny, I think the AN-E's are based on Snell's, also speakers of a similar period. Are you interested in DIY? Best,E | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Some of my thoughts on this thread were about taste and taste-makers. Some of it however was wondering about the interaction of mastering engineers, speaker makers, and amplifier makers. In a very real way, THX film sound has things MUCH easier ti... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Interesting, because Dr. Leach’s paper on building a low TIM solid state amplifier was also around that time:http://users.ece.gatech.edu/mleach/papers/lowtim/feb76feb77articles.pdfIt could very well be the time was right in 1974-1976 for an overal... | |
| The Truth about Modern Class D The truth is class D is totally mediocre.If you think its great jump on an amp ASAP!!!! Report this@ebm Blanket statements like this, without qualifying them with your experience, and speakers used are entirely unhelpful. Want to fill this in with... | |
| High order crossovers @trelja " Resistors represent a fundamental component in the toolbox. Resistors reduce voltage, reduce gain, Yes, right right .. ... reduce dynamics" Woah, no, they don’t. They could only do this if they were non-linear. Resistors are the most lin... | |
| Opera on Tidal - What Are Your Favorites? Thanks! | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment Hmmmm, so I make my own loudspeakers so therefore can measure them fairly well in terms of frequency response and distortion. They are objectively pretty close to neutral, with no sweetening peaks and valleys that are often the darlings of high en... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? So the conclusion is, if we had transistors first, then all tube amps would be trying to be as good as transistors? :) | |
| What is this speaker doing right? Wharferdale uses really smooth and low compression tweeters and don't get enough credit for it. | |
| The Truth about Modern Class D It’s simple. You cannot put anything into the air besides a hot air balloon. At best you can create a glider and glide down from above, but the idea that you could build a machine heavier than air that could hold a person a motor and fuel combined... | |
| High order crossovers Again, I strongly suggest anyone who REALLY wants to walk the walk and stop debating forever, build a pair of the A26 kits. It doesn't get any lower order than that. Zero order is NO crossover, not low-order crossover. Best,E | |
| High order crossovers If memory serves, time / phase coherent speakers often use 1st order tweets, 2nd order on the mids, along with physical offsets. But as I have mentioned, I've heard them and they were not for me. I didn't think that dynamics was a particularly ste... | |
| High order crossovers There is no correlation between part count and difficulty of driving. In fact, after a crossover is done, say you end up with a dozen parts, you might often add a few more to reduce impedance peaks and make the speaker operate more consistently wi... | |
| Floor-Standards to Monitors? Monitor Audio are superb. | |
| Safe to use stereo amp for Movies in the long term? Yep, perfectly safe so long as you don't hear amp distortion. |