turnbowm
Responses from turnbowm
| Speakers for Small Room @audiodwebe - "I’d suggest you hold off on any speaker purchases until you’ve tried your current gear at your new place...." Good advice. | |
| Advice on speaker cables. "....What amps get fussy with capacitance? I’m unfamiliar" @kmm84 - Older Quad & Naim power amps were susceptible to output oscillations with high capacitive loads. The Zobel network was developed to deal with this issue. As others have said,... | |
| Advice on speaker cables. Mogami cables offer excellent value and are neutral-sounding.. A large percentage of recording studios use Mogami for good reason. Kimber speaker cables are also good with low inductance but high capacitance. Some amps get fussy when driving large... | |
| Bryston Warranty Changes - 10 years Have a Bryston B60R Integrated Amp that failed after 19 years. Bryston made the repair and my only expense was the initial shipping cost to their repair center. The 20-year warranty was a strong selling point. | |
| Reviewers: Let's End the AI-Generated Content @ghdprentice, You bring back old memories. My K&E and Pickett are long gone, however. | |
| Speaker Placement - Frequent Placement Changes? Whenever I’ve made significant changes to the system, I’ll readdress speaker placement. I was using the Cardas Golden Ratio for Rectangular Rooms but recently changed back to the Odd Order Placement, advocated by Vandersteen. Better tonal balance ... | |
| How important are spikes? "....Stick with the basics and the best money you can spend on fixing the acoustics of your room, and speaker placement." @phillyb - Good advice. | |
| Is ASR for real, or is it only for those sub $1k or even sub $2K? I don't have a problem with Amir or with ASR in general. They perform tests on equipment. Equipment designers do the same thing. I believe, however, that personal listening tests are an important part of any buying decision. | |
| Interconnects/Cables of your choice, and why? I always had a mix of different brands in my system and was never satisfied. Decided to end the madness and got a full loom of Cardas. Never felt the desire to change since then. | |
| Stereo Times Review of the Apogee Acoustics Diva Had a pair of Apogee Duetta Sig. speakers and had to get a Krell power amp to drive them. Beautiful sound on string instruments but definitely not rock speakers. When company went out of business in 1999 I moved on. | |
| Mixing or matching component brands My components are from various brands, chosen for the features and performance I was looking for. | |
| Electric Panel Surge protection @erik_squires, Sorry, being confrontional was not my intent. I'm familiar with the products involved as well as Wire Cutter tests and simply couldn't connect the dots. | |
| Electric Panel Surge protection @erik_squires, I'm familiar with the Wirecutter tests and Zero Surge, SurgeX and Brickwall was not mentioned because Wirecutter has never tested them. How can you say that Furman and Tripp-Lite ourperformed them if they were never tested? | |
| FM Tuners Have owned a Magnum Dynalab FT-101A for many years and enjoy it every day. Am fortunate to be within range of KUSC (FM - 91.5) that offers quality classical music 24/7 with no commercials. | |
| Electric Panel Surge protection "BTW, the patents on series mode protection expired a while ago and Furman among others now incorporates them into their designs. Looking at the only 3rd party tests I know of, from Wired, the latest Furman and Tripp Lite models outperform Brick... |