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| What makes a Digital Interconnect What engineering school did you attend?Columbia (BSEE); RPI (MSEE). However, my engineering career (now retired) was in defense electronics, not audio.Best regards,-- Al | |
| What makes a Digital Interconnect The 75 ohms refers to what is called "characteristic impedance", which has relevance only to frequencies that are much higher than analog audio signals (such as frequency components that are present in digital signals, video signals, and radio sig... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp No, by "outer ground sleeve" I simply meant the cylindrical outer part of the rca phono jacks themselves, which the shorting plugs would connect to the center pins of the jacks.-- Al | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Hi Marty,Are they truly shorting plugs, which look like an rca plug and connect the center pin to the outer ground sleeve? Or are they just caps, which simply cover the opening on the jack (which I would expect would not be an effective fix)?Assum... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? My question is, how is there a necessary correlation between neutrality, as defined herein, and listener satisfaction? I submit part of the love affair with tubes is their added 'warmth' -- hardly neutral. Good question, T, and I think that the an... | |
| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time I've been through about a dozen tuners over the years, mostly vintage tube units, but a few modern ones as well including a Carver TX-11. The vintage ones include a REL (Radio Engineering Laboratories) Precedent (from 1954), two different Marantz ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Excellent last several posts, most definitely including Newbee's despite (and perhaps because of) it's non-emulation of a particular lesser light around here :)I still feel, though, that the main thrust of the op has been diverted throughout most ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? So, for the fourth time: In my view, neutrality is one virtue AMONG MANY in an audio system. My intention in starting this thread was to propose a way to develop that particular virtue, not to suggest that it is the virtue to be valued above all o... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp I agree that shorting plugs on all of the unused inputs (especially of course the phono input, but I'd suggest the others as well) should be step 1.I doubt that the speaker cables have anything to do with it, in part because the very low output im... | |
| What is the best Software to Digitize LP's? Sony Sound Forge Pro, at $375, is a professionally oriented Windows-based audio editing program which includes several functions that will reduce or eliminate tics, pops, crackles, rumble, and continuous surface noise.I have used this program exte... | |
| help w/amp demo I get the impression that the dynamic limitations of a less powerful amp may be less of an issue for non-classical music, which is less dynamic?Yes, with some isolated exceptions here and there, well recorded classical symphony orchestra will have... | |
| help w/amp demo Excellent suggestions by Tvad, as usual. The one thing I would add, with respect to your question about having enough power, is that a key variable is the dynamic range of the music you listen to.I also have 90db speakers, in a 13 x 20 room, with ... | |
| HDMI cable made a difference in picture quality?? I am really fasinated by the responses I have seen here. Some members claim to see sharper or brighter pictures. Can somebody explain to me how is it possible with digital? I mean, how can cables transmitting digital information apply filter to ma... | |
| Tape in + tape monitor = passive preamp? I too use a BCD-1 as my cdp. Great minds think alike!I use it's balanced outputs into the balanced inputs of a Classe CP-60 preamp, and I've been very pleased with it, listening mainly to classical music.But I'm surprised to hear that is what you ... | |
| Why so negative about McIntosh speakers? Newbee:LOL. There are a lot of fine speakers that get tons on criticism in these pages. But since you don't own them and probably haven't heard them, you just assume that it is all warranted.Foster_9: Newbee, your post seems to be attacking Sit fo... |