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| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? Interesting question, Mapman, but I don't think that it has an answer.Since there are a great many ways in which each medium and its reproduction can be inaccurate, how does one weight each of those ways relative to the others, and tally up a net ... | |
| component where PC does not make a difference When I did some research as to how AC regenerators work I came to conclusion that AC power cords do make a diff + I actually do have a good power cord connected to my PS300. One possible explanation that comes to mind would be that the shielding o... | |
| Cable Query It's hard to say, as there are many unpredictable variables involved. But my instinct would be to go with the unbalanced TS inputs, since the signal source is unbalanced, while the XLR and TRS inputs are presumably balanced.Also, I would expect th... | |
| Digital Source Comparison - An audible difference? Hi Mceljo,Thanks for providing the feedback from your EE associate!I have no particular familiarity with iPods, docks, Pandora, etc. But assuming that the DAC function is being performed by the component into which you are connecting the dock's ca... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-2 amplifier Well done, Ralph! Congratulations!!!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Bryston BDP1- loading problem 10-12-11: Dhl93449Are you not exceeding the file format limitations for FAT32 with those drives? I thought drives of that size require NTFS file systems? Win XP, for example, cannot format a volume greater than 32 GB in FAT32.The 32 GB limit is ju... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, thanks for providing that background.Paul, I've always interpreted the phrase "controlling the interconnect cables" to mean simply minimizing or eliminating their effects. As you know, Ralph has made the point that in the case of a balance... | |
| Importance of computer for DAC shootout 10-12-11: EdorrI need to check my configuration. If it turns out my Dell Laptop or Asus has USB 2.0 should I be OK?That would be a lot better, but I think that using a computer that is several years old or more would still make the meaningfulness ... | |
| Importance of computer for DAC shootout IMO performing the comparison with a computer that pre-dates USB 2.0 (and even USB 1.1, if your statement is correct) will tell you little or nothing about how the DAC's will behave with a modern computer. I would also be hesitant to extrapolate f... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Gentlemen,In a situation where the LSA is being driven by a component whose output impedance is low to the point of insignificance at all frequencies (which appears to be the case here, with the Metrum Octave DAC being solid state and having a nom... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 10-11-11: DevilboyJeez, if 470K isn't enough, what the hell is?I think you may have misread our posts. :-)The 470K is not an issue, as George and I both indicated.Regards,-- Al | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Devilboy, I have a pair of the 10db Rothwell's, and as measured with my not particularly accurate analog multimeter the series resistor has a value of about 21K, and the shunt resistor has a value of about 9.5K. As you realize and as George has co... | |
| CD Ripping software 10-10-11: MapmanI really like using network players, especially wireless ones, as the digital source feeding the DAC because a network player like a Squeezebox connected to wireless LAN has no electrical connection to the rest of the computer gear... | |
| CD Ripping software Modern computer processors and motherboards dynamically vary both cpu voltage and cpu clock rate as processing requirements vary from instant to instant. It would seem conceivable, depending on the particular hardware, that noise transients associ... | |
| Digital Source Comparison - An audible difference? Hi Mceljo,Assuming that the impedance mismatches are within limits that are not totally unreasonable (such as might occur if the connection of the shield in a coaxial cable were broken), the resulting reflections will not cause any errors whatsoev... |