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Apr 25, 2018	Esoteric PO3 Transport XLR Output Look closer, George, after clicking on the rear panel photo to expand it. Just above the connectors, and just below the XLR1 and XLR2 markings, one connector is labelled "L" and the other is labelled "R." And likewise on the XLR digital inputs of ...
Apr 25, 2018	Esoteric PO3 Transport XLR Output Left and right XLR's are analog outputs, not digital outputs. Steve, that's of course true in nearly all cases. But not in this one. First, the P-03 is just a transport, and does not provide analog outputs. Second, if you look closely at the ...
Apr 25, 2018	Esoteric PO3 Transport XLR Output I'm pretty certain that there is no practical way to do that.Apparently monophonic XLR digital outputs were provided on the P-03 to be compatible with the D-03 DAC, which is a dual mono design providing separate XLR inputs for the two channels.Reg...
Apr 25, 2018	Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Where in the playback system are you referring to this jitter? The entire point that, and I will keep with Tidal as example, is that once local buffer is filled up, and buffers are indeed static storage, that any timing variance ceases to exist. I...
Apr 25, 2018	Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Homes don’t have these challenges. So the shielded designs don’t help, but they could hurt if the shield ties end points to chassis and creates a ground loop. Floated shield would be fine however and the costs are minimal if it makes the audiophil...
Apr 24, 2018	Why are my woofers pumping? O_Holter, while it indeed sounds like the problem is a consequence of the arm/cartridge resonant frequency being too low, I’ve been thinking about what might be exciting that resonance, since based on what you’ve said it seems that the excitation ...
Apr 24, 2018	Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? As a follow-up to the hypothesis I stated in my previous post, here is a quote from another post I had made in the "Most Important Unloved Cable" thread: Almarg 3-19-2017Those reading this thread may wish to also read a series of posts beginning a...
Apr 24, 2018	Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? It seems to me that what has been largely overlooked in this discussion (with the exception of the brief post by Markalarsen) is the fact that 100% of the energy of an electrical signal, especially one that as in the case of Ethernet contains spec...
Apr 23, 2018	How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Honashagen 4-22-2018 No balanced inputs on my DNA1. I’m not sure from this response if my suggestion came across clearly. To be sure it’s clear, I was suggesting that you consider adding balanced inputs to the DNA-1, either with an external Je...
Apr 22, 2018	How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Rather than spending a lot of money for a better preamp, here’s a much less expensive possibility to consider, that could very conceivably result in a significant improvement:I presume that all of the connections you have been using between the co...
Apr 22, 2018	Is DEQX a game changer? Blang11, thanks for providing the thorough and extremely well composed report. Glad it worked out so well. Enjoy!Best regards,-- Al
Apr 22, 2018	A Question on Speaker Driver Efficiency CJ1965 4-20-2018 Wrong again. You cannot simply substitute the electrical power ratio into the sound power formula and call it a day.The ratio of measured sound power to reference sound power is 1/2 - not 1/4. I posted the following in this threa...
Apr 21, 2018	Ugraditus is calling....again. Phono stage? P.S: Although I doubt it would happen, it’s possible that running your Shelter cartridge with the PH-10’s gain set to 71 db might result in distortion on musical peaks, due to an overload condition in either its circuitry or in the circuitry in th...
Apr 21, 2018	Ugraditus is calling....again. Phono stage? Hi Uberwaltz,By just about all accounts that I've seen the ART7, like the ART9, is an excellent cartridge. However, its very low output will definitely be a problem for many phono stages, in terms of noise. Specifically, its rated output of 0.12...
Apr 20, 2018	A Question on Speaker Driver Efficiency Assuming that a speaker is operating in a reasonably linear manner, meaning for example that it is not being over-driven to the point that thermal compression becomes significant, it seems to me that the relation between acoustic power out and ele...