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| Sound staging; Sepertaes Vs. Integrated Frogman, thank you kindly for the implicit compliment.I essentially agree with all of the foregoing comments, including yours. As Phaelon and Robsker have indicated, generalizations about design approaches will inevitably be wrong in many cases. B... | |
| Cables more hype than value? 02-17-13: TobbI honestly can't hear a difference between Mega cable and a good old generic.The reason for that is NOT necessarily that your system (or your ears) are lacking in (musical) resolution. Quoting from myself in this thread:The degree to... | |
| Using a DAC with Conrad Johnson DV2b CD player I would use the digital output with an audio coax cable.You might find that the DAC helps even more if you obtain a cable that is specifically intended for digital applications, meaning in particular a cable that is designed to have a 75 ohm "char... | |
| DVD set ratings password bypass Try steps 4 and 5 of this procedure.Regards,-- Al | |
| Ethernet over power electrical connection signals Assuming that the particular link functions reliably, and given, as Kijanki indicated, that sound quality is not influenced by link timing, the main question that arises in my mind is not interference TO the device, but interference FROM the devic... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Alan, thank you for seconding my comment. But I would question the reference to the transport's output signal as being analog. Both S/PDIF and AES/EBU signals combine clock, data, and other information into a biphase mark encoded signal. The data ... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? 02-14-13: EdorrVery much a function of the overall architecture. With reclocking and asynchronous DACs, the difference are definitely a lot smaller then with a traditional synchronous architecture. It is still a bit of a mystery to me why a transp... | |
| First favorite tune "On The Street Where You Live," from "My Fair Lady." Hummed it to myself while walking past the home of a girl who was my first crush. I was about 10.Regards,-- Al | |
| Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000 02-13-13: Philipwumy guess is ... when a transformer is used to split signal that enters from RCA connector into positive & negative phase for further "procresing" then the amp is fully balance.I don't think we can say, based on the descriptio... | |
| Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000 02-12-13: AbruceThe Coincident is not balanced, this comes from a reliable source but I wonder how you can really tellFrom the CSLS description at the Coincident website:The circuitry of the Statement is fully balanced from input to output. The so... | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection Ralph, that's excellent and useful information, of course. But I'm not sure whether or not you noticed that the question was not about monostrapping or paralleling. It was about the possibility of configuring two pairs of tube monoblock amps havin... | |
| Another question for ya Al Hi B,Using a cheater plug does create a risk of shock and fire. Assuming that the equipment is in decent physical condition, the risk is extremely small, but it cannot be said that the risk is zero.See this thread for extensive discussion of this ... | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection I second Kijankis good comments, and I would add that in addition to the possibility of over-stressing the amps due to the halved impedance each of them would see, Im not even sure that you could turn the amps on and off without creating at leas... | |
| rewiring preamp will it work Sounds like a plan! Given the 24x ratio, and the info Mingles provided that there is no output coupling capacitor, and the response from Cary, I think you'll be fine.Concerning splitters, opinions tend to be divided. FWIW my own opinion is that it... | |
| rewiring preamp will it work James is correct, aside perhaps from the last sentence, but I and I suspect most of the others have been assuming that the second RCA output would go to the input of a headphone amplifier (as I mentioned), rather than to headphones directly. A pre... |