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| Good evening,interested in moving to a DAC Hi Robin,Re your question about pros and cons, keep in mind that going to a separate transport and dac will not necessarily get you better sound than you would get from an integrated (one-box) cd player, especially within that price range or lower... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Granite Digital offers firewire cables that include a number of special design provisions that are claimed to make possible lengths up to 32 feet. They offer 1394A and 1394B cables in that length for $90 to $100. I have no experience with them, al... | |
| Why not horns? Herman: Take 2 equal signals consisting of a mix of 20 hertz and 100 Hz all the same amplitude in phase........ polarity invert one and sum the result you get complete cancellation..... phase shift one signal by 180 degrees...well... here is where... | |
| Using balance to compensate for speaker distance I'm in essential agreement with Bob. Although I would say give it a try, and see if the resulting sound is satisfactory to you.The balance control will allow you to compensate for the slight volume difference between the two speakers that may occu... | |
| Why not horns? Re phase and polarity, I believe the reason for the ambiguity and inconsistent use of the term "phase" is that a delay or phase shift mechanism can be either phase dispersive (affecting the phase of different frequencies differently), or phase non... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player I think that part of the divergence of viewpoints on vinyl vs. digital probably relates to the kinds of music that people listen to. In two ways:1)Tics, pops, surface noise, etc. on a vinyl system will be most objectionable on material that has wi... | |
| mains and subwoofer phase issues I agree with Stan -- if you are happy with the sound leave it as is. Absolute phase reversal on the main speakers will be inaudible on most recordings, and on the few recordings on which it may make a difference, the difference will be minor.Howev... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? Ralph, thanks for the excellent comments and explanations. FWIW, I am in complete agreement.I would just add the thought that in principle it is certainly possible to use active devices, as alternatives to the transformers you mentioned, to fully ... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? How does balanced work in an amplifier? IE - compared to amplifiers that have XLR in but don't employ true balanced?A fully balanced amplifier maintains separate signal paths for each of the two input signal polarities, all the way to its output ... | |
| Capacitance Question Djn04 -- Load capacitance is usually not too critical, even for a mm, and often a moderate mismatch can be synergistic with the rest of the system. The differences would be in the extreme upper treble. You may find this Hagerman Technology page to... | |
| biamping question Econotweaks -- Nothing I said was meant to negate the possibility that bi-amping can produce a significant improvement in sound quality, if done right. In fact my post in the other thread that I linked to above specifically pointed out, among othe... | |
| Capacitance Question Hi Dan,Actually that's not correct. They're in parallel, not in series, so they simply add together. Cable capacitance is "in shunt" between the signal conductor and the shield or other return conductor, and the phono stage input capacitance is ac... | |
| biamping question Sy, you're welcome!Stewie, I don't doubt that you have an excellent sounding configuration. And I see nothing wrong with Sy obtaining a second set of amps, or a stereo amp, and trying it in a biamp'd configuration, before deciding whether or not t... | |
| biamping question Contrary to widespread belief, passive bi-amping (which I assume is what you are envisioning) will not give you significantly more power, and in fact may give you no power increase at all. See the following thread:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin... | |
| Recommended Speaker for Triode Amp Daedalus DA-RMa - I've heard that they're better with a higher powered tube amp. Anyone?Kenny, if you haven't seen it already you'll want to read through this thread:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=72517.0Note Lou's comment:For general ... |