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| Why CD players will never be dead 11-28-11: PhaelonIf information (bits) is missing from a read, how does a CDP know what that information is. It was my understanding that error correction/interpolation/concealment is a process where the CDP makes a sort of guess based on the befo... | |
| Why CD players will never be dead 11-27-11: GhosthouseHow is it possible for a copy of a CD played from a computer hard drive to sound better than the original CD?Some good responses have been provided above. The following excerpts from this thread provide further elaboration on s... | |
| Sabre EE Minimax Plus - Calyx - Audiolab 8200DQ 11-26-11: Douglas_schroeder... It reminds me of the rule I instituted in regards to system building. When I get very tired I will not conduct work on setting up a system. One time when I was very tired I got a brain wave to reconfigure; I should h... | |
| Sabre EE Minimax Plus - Calyx - Audiolab 8200DQ Doug, I'm confused by your comment. The only AES/EBU connection on the Minimax+ is an input, not an output. And if there were an AES/EBU output, using it would amount to substituting the preamp's digital-to-analog converter function for the Minima... | |
| DAC as preamp w/subwoofer Good posts by Eric and Cymbop, with which I agree 100%. Given that the DAC2's rca output is common with the positive polarity output signal on xlr pin 2, using an xlr-to-rca adapter for one of the two rca runs, and connecting the other run to the ... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? What remains a mystery is how this hum got into the signal path... Any ideas?Yes, that does seem counter-intuitive and mysterious. The only thought that occurs to me is along the lines of what you were speculating, that the safety grounds for the ... | |
| DAC as preamp w/subwoofer I see that the DAC2 is specified as having a nominal output impedance of 100 ohms; the RB991 is specified as having an input impedance of 32K, with Stereophile's measurements being 36K unbalanced and 45.2K balanced; and I couldn't find an input im... | |
| DAC as preamp w/subwoofer Is this feasible with the W4S or with any other DAC for that matter?It depends on several factors. Let us know the make and model of both the sub and the power amp, and how long the cable lengths will be between the DAC2 and each of those componen... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? My system is on two 20amp dedicated lines and all components are fed power from a AC regenerator that completely isolates the system from the wall power. I also have a hot tub in the back yard on its own separate 20a circuit.I don't quite understa... | |
| Interconnect between h-phone amp and integrated It depends on the output impedance of the integrated amp output that you are connecting to (the lower the better), on the capacitance of the interconnect cable (the lower the better), on the susceptibility of the two components to ground loop effe... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Steve,I don't necessarily disagree with any of your comments, and I don't assert that the hypothesis I offered is anything more than speculative, but the "huh" in your last response tells me that my hypothesis may not have come across clearly.The ... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF DTC, thanks for the good response, with which I am in essential agreement. I would just like to make sure it is clear to everyone that under my hypothesis cpu utilization which is low but non-zero may actually be WORSE with respect to noise genera... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Excellent comments by all, IMO, on an issue that by its nature is highly speculative.11-23-11: DtcI agree that networked solutions can provide better isolation that direct connections. Remember, I am not talking about audio streams in general, but... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Although in principle any half-way decent modern computer should have no trouble de-compressing and processing any audio format, my suspicion is that a major reason for reported sonic differences between lossless formats relates to the fact that i... | |
| Is bi amping really a trade off? 11-17-11: HifihvnOne odd thing that I can never figure out is, a knowledgeable person that may be a manufacturer (speaker?) that posts (or used to) here sometimes said that when you bi-amp, the load is divided equally on the speaker inputs when th... |