1439bhr
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| Why do digital cables sound different? Another point: it could be that different cables have differing degrees of shielding effectiveness, and therefore, generate different levels of RFI which is coupled back into the analog electronics. P.S. Don't knock science and engineering. That's... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Even with perfect square waves there will be jitter in a clock recovery circuit, due to the stochastic nature of the bit stream. Buffering the data and reclocking with a nice stable clock avoids the jitter problem, at the expense of some relativel... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Megasam: yes, all cables have some effect (i.e., error) on the signal waveforms passed though them. However, the beauty of digital communications is that, with proper system design, these analog errors can be ignored or removed at the receiving en... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Drubin: No. This is a case where "bits is bits" -- while the bitstream obviously carries the musical information, one cannot point to particular bits say, "here, these are the ones carrying the high frequency content". A role that digital cable ma... | |
| Do CD-R's sound the same as originals Perfection is the Holy Grail. In practice, this means "vanishingly small error rate" relative to digital data. Uncorrected bit error rates (BER) on the order of error in every trillion bits is not uncommon for some high-quality digital data transm... | |
| Room Correction Systems? I posted a review last week of the Tact RCS 2.0 under the thread "Tact RCS" in this forum. Bottom line: Tact RCS 2.0 costs $3K, Sigtech is pushing $10 K. Tact is a DIY project, Sigtech comes with Real Engineers. Tact RCS 2.0 gives a very noticeabl... | |
| Do CD-R's sound the same as originals Good point about reflectivity. Too bad that $200 CD burners can outperform big buck audio players :-( Concering error correction algorithms: notice I used the term "correctable error": this is an error which is detected by the error correction alg... | |
| Do CD-R's sound the same as originals For CDR technology to be useful as a computer data media requires vanishingly small rate of uncorrectable errors during the transcription. When was the last time you had a "bad" data or program file on a CD? This means the post-correction error ra... | |
| DSP Devices for Room/Speaker Correction I purchased an RCS 2.0 about a month ago. It is a very interesting piece and overall, a worthwhile addition to my system. The reality is that I'm still learning how to best use its capabilities. In short, it does what it's intended to do: reduce, ... | |
| The fallacy of ac treatment Swampwalker: yes, and we let them get away with it instead of demanding better. Look at all the moaning and groaning we do about plastic binding posts... yet, what's the impact of plastic vs metal binding posts vs the impact of good EMI design? | |
| The fallacy of ac treatment The real question is that is why aren't audio equipment manufacturers providing cords of adequate guage and proper EMI filtering at the mains input of their expensive amplifiers. Come now, how much cost savings is there between a 16 guage and 12 g... | |
| Tact RCS I purchased an RCS 2.0 about a month ago. It is a very interesting piece and overall, a worthwhile addition to my system. The reality is that I'm still learning how to best use its capabilities. In short, it does what it's intended to do: reduce, ... | |
| Best DAC Under $5000 - Opinions Please Here's a second vote for the Levinson 360S. I upgraded from an Aragon D2A2. Note that the 360S does not do 24/96 upsampling -- it does 24/384. The sound is both resolved and smooth and was a definite step forward in musicality of my system. Paraph... | |
| 24-bit digital data standard Thanks, it worked. One thing that's not clear: 16/44.1 and 24/96 are two popular implementations of the standard. Are other combinations such as 24/44.1 supported? | |
| 24-bit digital data standard grumpybob -- the URL is a dead link. I fiddled around and got to Helsinki University of Technology, but couldn't find my way to SPDIF info. Please repost if you can. Thanks. |