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| CDP choices-Looking for advice The Sony XA-5400ES, while excellent, has issues concerning its availability. See this thread.Among redbook-only cdp's, the Bryston BCD-1 is well regarded and can be found used for around $1800 (it is $2.9K new). This is what I use, and I have been... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? Mceljo, with all due respect your friend seems to have missed my point. My point was NOT that bit errors would occur in the link between transport and dac, due to logic threshold problems or due to any other reason. I would expect that any such in... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? The points Kijanki made about timing, jitter, and reflections on impedance boundaries merit added emphasis and explanation, imo.The S/PDIF and AES/EBU interfaces which are most commonly used to transmit data from transport to dac are inherently pr... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K Along the lines of my earlier comment, imo the most important factor in determining the necessary speaker sensitivity is the dynamic range of the music being listened to. Meaning the difference in volume between the loudest notes and the softest n... | |
| biamping with a arc 150.2 and vtl mb125 Hi Sy,My instinct would be "no," given that you don't have a means of trying it out which is both convenient and without obligation. There are too many variables, unknowns, and causes for concern.I would suggest not bi-amping and simply buying a m... | |
| biamping with a arc 150.2 and vtl mb125 Hi Sy,That could be true, but I'm not sure. Everything else being equal, a balanced interface will provide 6db greater gain than an unbalanced one, because the balanced input responds to the difference between two equal and opposite signal polarit... | |
| biamping with a arc 150.2 and vtl mb125 Hi Sy,I recall from your other thread a couple of months ago that you are using Ascendo C7 speakers. I wasn't able to find detailed information about their impedance vs. frequency characteristics, just that they have a nominal impedance rating of ... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K Here are two of the recent threads in which high efficiency speakers have been discussed, as Keith mentioned. These threads are lengthy, but are well worth reading imo.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1273542421http://forum.audiog... | |
| bi amp imrpoving? At the risk of repeating myself or seeming a jerk, IMHO the peak volume level that can be generated is largely beside the point.... Where distortion isn't perceived as a negative, ear-splitting levels can be achieved with relatively "low" wattage,... | |
| bi amp imrpoving? Hi Zaikesman,I am in complete agreement with nearly all of your comments. And I certainly agree with the fundamental point that passive biamping, if well implemented, can yield significant sonic advantages along the lines that you and others have ... | |
| bi amp imrpoving? A small but important qualification to Zaikesman's post: This is of course in addition to the other theoretical benefits [of passive biamping], like doubling the available amp power (assuming the top and bottom amps are identical).This is a common... | |
| Are line-out jacks needed to use an ADC? That will most likely work fine. The only possible problem I can foresee is that if while you are digitizing via the adc you are also listening via the normal signal path (preamp to power amp to speakers), the volume control setting on the preamp ... | |
| Air Tight 300B/WE rectifier question Follow-up to my previous post: Upon further research, it appears that the 274B is octal-based, but as I stated the 274A is not. The A and B versions are identical electrically, according to the book "Tube Lore," by Ludwell Sibley, so my other comm... | |
| Air Tight 300B/WE rectifier question I took a look at a datasheet I have for the 274A, in the book "Western Electric Tube Data," published by Antique Electronic Supply (now tubesandmore.com). The 274A is a four-pin tube, and I assume the 274B is as well, while the 5U4 utilizes an oct... | |
| Tweaks to Add A Little Treble Emphasis... Is your preamp-to-amp connection balanced or unbalanced? And how long is the cable?Assuming that your version of the Calypso is the same as or similar to the one measured by Stereophile here, the unbalanced output has an unusually high output impe... |