renisnceman
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| Anyone Damp the insides of your Speaker Cabinets? I diy’d my speakers-bass reflex and a front loaded horn. Generally, with a ported design I line the walls with .5” wool felt pad and avoid stuffing the enclosure. A sealed design usually utilizes stuffing. Transmission line designs use a very s... | |
| Nuforce STA200 With my current speakers at 89dB, it rarely ever gets even warm, and I can’t go beyond a quarter turn with my passive pre amp before it gets uncomfortably loud. Not sure if that translates into having the headroom for a driver that’s 84dB. I kno... | |
| Nuforce STA200 Had my amp for about a year now, no issues, great sound. Current speakers (diy) are 89 dB. Looking at a new design where efficiency would be 84dB. Be interested in hearing from anyone that’s paired this amp with lower efficiency speakers. | |
| Nuforce STA200 Luminous Audio Axiom ii passive preamp works great with this amp. I use one, and I think another poster here does as well. Dead quiet even with the STA-200’s high gain. | |
| Nuforce STA200 Read the link quoted above. I don’t pretend to understand all of the amp’s measurements, but I know from speaker building that some that measure well don’t sound particularly good, and vice versa. My speakers have a good 5dB peak from 10 kHz to ... | |
| Nuforce STA200 I thought about the Pro-ject Prebox, but this where it gets a little complicated.....I’ve had this system together only 1 year, started from ground zero, and now I have upgrade-itis. Deciding what to upgrade next is tough. With the STA-200 as th... | |
| Nuforce STA200 Been reading about a lot of dacs, trying to figure out what might best match this amp. NuForce has the Dac-9, there’s the Metrum Acoustics Amethyst, and I very tempted to go tube rolling with the Jolida Tube fx Mk3. I listen exclusively thru Tid... | |
| Nuforce STA200 Hi MrD-Are you using a dac with the STA-200? If so, which one? I think we’re both using the same passive pre amp. I’m using a CEntrance dac mini, but thinking of upgrading. | |
| USB-cable: In between Neo Oyaide d+ and Tellurium Q Silver? 150 - 200 range? I replaced my AQ Carbon USB with the Oyaide Neo d+ A and noticed improvement in SQ— clearer treble and better soundstage. So much of this is system dependent and synergistic though. | |
| Fixing your cable problems forever. +1 erik_squires- with diy you can really tweak to get the best response with your equipment/room. With my diy speakers that meant upgrading the caps from Clarity Cap PX to Mundorf Supremes. They remain a work in progress; with a commercial produ... | |
| Fixing your cable problems forever. I started from scratch after having sold all my stereo gear 20 years ago. It took a good two years to really learn speaker design, and I’m still just scratching the surface. But, for me, the process was as enjoyable as the end product. And hones... | |
| Fixing your cable problems forever. Two of the best things you can do to diy your speakers is download WinIsd and Passive Crossover Designer. They’re both free and an absolute necessity if you’re going to design something that will sound good. WinIsd models the frequency response ... | |
| Fixing your cable problems forever. I diy’d my speakers from scratch and I’m very satisfied with how they turned out, so diy’ing my speaker cables was a natural step. There’s a “White Lightning” design on the web that got a lot of attention some years ago- asymmetrical design (2 co... | |
| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers I designed my speakers from the ground up. Took about 18 months from preliminary designs for the cabinet, identifying drivers, multiple crossover designs, etc. It can be a steep learning curve if you don’t go the kit route, but the forums listed... | |
| Nuforce STA200 Maybe I’m overthinking this- if one amp’s R and L channel play thru one speaker, and the other amp does the same thing thru the other speaker, do you get the same stereo separation as if you were using one amp? |