I actually pretty much agree, but I saddled myself with the aps, and now I have to either make them work or sell them.
My room clearly has issues, so fixing those is a win either way. I've also been toying with the idea of keeping the behringer and squeezebox, and driving the speakers with a tact 2150. Then the whole thing is just: squeezebox->deq->int amp->speakers I might have jitter issues then, but the system would be simple. I am a little leery about the equibit thing, since then any major format change would make the thing completely useless, afaik. the cheapo class av123 thing I'm going to try also has a built in dac. I figure if it's great, then I'll use it in the living room, otherwise I put it in the bedroom, and live with the mccormack/classe until I get the tact or whatever. Hypex is coming out with their own smps soon, so I could conceivably even do diy for the amp (I hate the idea of building an amp nearly as heavy and heat producing as the mccormack). highdudgeon;133918 Wrote: > Well, the DIY is kind of cool -- and you learn a lot, if you have the > patience. When I moved from the Behringer to the Rane, I needed some > kind of measuring system, right? So I purchased an excellent audio > measurement software suite for the Mac, a measurement mic, cables, > etc., and went about testing my room and tweaking the EQ accordingly. > Little things *mattered* -- mic positioning, windowing results (long > story), etc. It was worth it. With help from others, I learned quite > a lot about room issues and speaker behavior. > > When it comes to electronics, though, I like to keep it simple. Or try > to, anyway. Look at my current system -- it's 1/4 of the stuff I had, > or less. (Harbeth M40s, two ACI Force subs, Carver amp, Bel Canto Pre2, > Rane, Sony CD/DVD/SACD, you name it). I want to be down to speakers > that need minimal to no correction in an average room (hence the > Monitor 30s), an amplifier, and a source. You miss a lot of things > this way...especially deep bass, and that's something I'm going to have > to deal with at some point...but simple is nice. -- totoro _____________________________________________ squeezebox 3 -> behringer 2496 -> classe 5 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26306 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
