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Re: Schiit
I bought one of their little Mani headphone preamps to monitor livestream audio for our church. It's very good, and it was very inexpensive (on close-out).
Their frat-boy humor and snarky, self-deprecating style doesn't really work for me, and some of their products are downright silly, but they have a reputation for knowing what they're doing (ahem, with the possible exception of their turntable fiasco). Their product line seems to be drifting steadily upscale, especially in price, though.
Their customer service reputation is kind of checkered (many glowing reports, but some disastrous ones, too).
ASR, of course, is very Schiit-centric (yeah, yeah... I know... low hangin' fruit
) -- lots of chatter & lots of reviews there, too.
I am not terribly impressed with the construction of their components -- which all looks the same, irrespective of whether it's the aforementioned $100 HP amp or a multi-thousand dollar amplifier or preamp. Grit your teeth and read a few of their reviews -- more to the point, the discussion in the threads attached to the reviews.
Are you thinking about specific product categories?
I will admit... I wouldn't mind playing with one of their little tone control boxes, but even the cheap one's not quite cheap enough to buy on a whim.
PS Their products do seem to have fairly short lifecycles, and they have an almost bewildering array of individual products for what I presume is fundamentally a pretty small company.
Their frat-boy humor and snarky, self-deprecating style doesn't really work for me, and some of their products are downright silly, but they have a reputation for knowing what they're doing (ahem, with the possible exception of their turntable fiasco). Their product line seems to be drifting steadily upscale, especially in price, though.
Their customer service reputation is kind of checkered (many glowing reports, but some disastrous ones, too).
ASR, of course, is very Schiit-centric (yeah, yeah... I know... low hangin' fruit
) -- lots of chatter & lots of reviews there, too.I am not terribly impressed with the construction of their components -- which all looks the same, irrespective of whether it's the aforementioned $100 HP amp or a multi-thousand dollar amplifier or preamp. Grit your teeth and read a few of their reviews -- more to the point, the discussion in the threads attached to the reviews.
Are you thinking about specific product categories?
I will admit... I wouldn't mind playing with one of their little tone control boxes, but even the cheap one's not quite cheap enough to buy on a whim.
PS Their products do seem to have fairly short lifecycles, and they have an almost bewildering array of individual products for what I presume is fundamentally a pretty small company.
mhardy6647
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Re: Volume is everything.
Tom, it is definitely not laughable my friend.
You put a full body acoustic guitar in the hands of a capable musician trying to fill a venue with sound, I assure you A weighted peaks will hit 95db.
I listened to guitars/drums, etc etc for many, many many hours!
Snare drum peaks at 125 to 130db.
But most "passive/acoustic" instruments - woodwinds, brasswinds, acoustic guitars, drums can easily produce levels 85 to 120db unamplified.
You put a full body acoustic guitar in the hands of a capable musician trying to fill a venue with sound, I assure you A weighted peaks will hit 95db.
I listened to guitars/drums, etc etc for many, many many hours!
Snare drum peaks at 125 to 130db.
But most "passive/acoustic" instruments - woodwinds, brasswinds, acoustic guitars, drums can easily produce levels 85 to 120db unamplified.
VR3
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Re: Volume is everything.
So having worked in a music store for almost a decade, I looked up the average volume of an unamplified acoustic guitar played in a venue setting. The average peaks are upwards of 95db...
Which is also pretty loud!
https://instrumentinsight.com/how-loud-is-an-acoustic-guitar/
Which is also pretty loud!
https://instrumentinsight.com/how-loud-is-an-acoustic-guitar/
VR3
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Re: Projects: what are you all working on?
Fixed the red light of death on the bluesound node2. Just changed a couple of power supply capacitors that are known to go bad.
invalid
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Re: Space station nightmare continues
"Most companies aim to be profitable"
Well.....Disney. 🤔🤫
mrbigbluelight
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Re: how to untwist the plastic terminal caps?
Turmoil6909 wrote: »Once again, you need a new dome/coil or an entirely new tweeter.
Okay yes I figured. Is there a high chance of a new dome/coil alone fixing it or is it possible something else has gone wrong too? Also, is there anything I need to be cognizant of when installing it? - is there a tutorial somewhere or is it literally just unsolder the old one, place the new one in the centre, solder it on.
Worth mentioning there is a brown liquid on the coil that rubs off on my fingers.... (see pic)
Thanks again very much everyone for the help. This stuff is all brand new to me lol
Ok, the brown material is Ferrofluid. It is highly likely it is no longer any good due to the high temperature the tweeter has seen, so you'd need to remove the old fluid and replace with new.
There should be videos online detailing both.
Yes, I was shared a video on how to replace Ferrofluid on my last thread. Unfortunately, I live in Canada and it is illegal to buy (import too? idk) Ferrofluid here. Should I just wait for used tweeters on facebook then?
Turmoil6909
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
But none are getting anything from that feeder until the Blue Jay is done!
Now, here in the Midwest, when the Cardinals show up, EVERYTHING scatters at the bird feeder.
......even the sunflower stealing squirrels !
mrbigbluelight
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