erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| What is this term 'analytical' ? The point of this hobby is to enjoy yourself. The idea that there’s a pure land that has perfect reproduction that everyone would enjoy is folly. Same for the idea that there is such a thing as an objectively neutral speaker that is capable of re... | |
| Any new reports from Munich 2022? I wish I could go. I have seen that What HiFi started writing about it and some really delicious pictures over at DIYaudio ... https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/munich-high-end-2022.386473/ | |
| Onkyo has filed for bankruptcy My experience with Onkyo vs. Anthem was the opposite. It was now several years ago, but I rapidly cycled through an Onkyo and Emotiva until I settled on an Oppo BD player as my processor for several years, a far superior situation. Now I’ve gone t... | |
| Upgrade Speaker Suggestions from Nautilus B&W 804S In a similar form factor, if you have horizontal space, the Revels. They throw a wide signal, so they don't like to be crowded with close up side walls | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? Interesting question Erik not that it is all that important. Agreed that it's not that important. :) | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? Does enjoying taking out and using the feather duster on my equipment and speakers make me a bad person? @curiousjim Not if you have informed consent and your gear is more than 18 years old. | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? "You need to know how little I can relate to the discussion you started" is a unique form of non-participation participation | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? I did kind of imagine if you hid everything you'd still have a tablet or phone like device to control everything. That remote doesn't count. | |
| Who actually uses digital speakers? @jdbsi I don't need backchannel information on Meridian. It was more of an open discussion I thought would be cool and useful. | |
| Can anyone identify this inductor? You lower the DCR because you need to lower the DCR. Lowering it in an existing/working crossover can be detrimental. Working with DCR can help you compensate for baffle step effects without a separate baffle step compensation circuit. One majo... | |
| Who actually uses digital speakers? @leadcrew I think these are really interesting _especially_ if you can do DSP on the bass sections alone. The best of all worlds, IMHO. The approach Vandersteen takes, to use a high pass filter before the main amps and compensate in the sub is ou... | |
| Who actually uses digital speakers? Hey @djones51 That’s the kind of interesting feedback I was looking forward to. :-) In particular I was wondering how the ecosystem would play out. Meridian’s use of (I think) Ethernet cable enabling fully digital, active home theater systems had... | |
| Who actually uses digital speakers? @ghdprentice Yeah, I expect the same for Theta Digital honestly. I don't know all the details, but it feels as if the HDMI licensing issues combined with the R&D needed to keep up with the latest standards and enhanced features made the switc... | |
| AV processors - nad versus anthem - room treatment issue Hey, I have an MRX 540, which has the same room correction (room treatment usually refers to acoustic panels). Before talking about DSP, I want to say that the latest series of Anthem sounds much better than the previous generation, by a lot. Cha... | |
| Hear me out ;-) Moving from Integrated Tube Amp to a Class D NAD doesn't get enough attention but they should. Maybe cause their original Master's DAC sucked, not sure, but the NAD 3020 D is outstanding little performer, and they now have a number of others as well. They use a unique hybrid Class D in co... |