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| Wide bandwidth = necessary? Your post makes sense *if* you are about to do an A-->D conversionThat's exactly what I was talking about. Please note that I said:The main benefit of higher sample rates, which figures to be a very significant one, is that it allows for a gent... | |
| Wide bandwidth = necessary? I agree with Viridian. The main benefit of higher sample rates, which figures to be a very significant one, is that it allows for a gentler rolloff of the "anti-aliasing filter" that precedes the a/d converter in the recording chain.The theoretica... | |
| 15 amp power cord question Yes. All that matters is that the device being powered through the power cord draws less than the 15 amps the cord is rated to handle.Regards,-- Al | |
| Tweeter or Woofer connection with single wire The only known technical factor that I can envision being relevant is that resistance between amp and woofer(s) should be as small as possible, to optimize damping factor and to reduce cable effects that might result from the relatively large curr... | |
| Does impedance matter? Has anyone looked at the link to the Smith Chart....It is a VERY interesting way to view the impedance curve of a speaker VS phase angles, which is really a much better way to evaluate 'is it a good or bad load?'I read the article, and it is indee... | |
| Best sounding Beethoven symphony LPs The Solti 9th, very deservedly recommended by Rushton above, was re-released by Mobile Fidelity in the 1980's, with excellent sonics. I suspect it isn't findable today, unless you get lucky purchasing a used copy, but it appears to have again been... | |
| To Bridge Or Not To Bridge Schipo -- ROTFLOL!!!Leo -- Bob R. makes an excellent point. In bridged mode an amp will see the speaker impedance x 0.5. The Thiel is rated as 4 ohm nominal, 3 ohms minimum. Therefore in bridged mode the amp will see 2 ohms nominal, 1.5 ohms min. ... | |
| Is dirty power the culprit? While I am a firm believer that the listener is a major variable, and that often differences will be perceived when nothing whatsoever has changed (including the recording), I think that if the differences here are as great as you seem to be descr... | |
| Transport for DAC Kijanki & Shadorne -- Thanks very much for the good comments and info. I looked at the manuals and Benchmark's comparison chart for all three versions of the DAC1, and yes the USB and Preamp versions are the only ones with the "State-of-the-ar... | |
| Is A Live Concert Stereo Or Mono Unamplified concerts I would suggest are multi-dimensional, essentially you have the sound of each seperate instrument mixing with all the other instruments. All this sound arrives at the listener with varrying intensities and timings. I don't hea... | |
| Transport for DAC Al - are you running XLR or RCA?RCA at present, because that is what my Rotel cdp puts out, but my Classe CP-60 preamp can accept either.Regards,-- Al | |
| Transport for DAC Good info, Kijanki -- Thanks! In my case, I don't want a warm sounding dac. I'm looking for neutrality and detail, because I have a tube power amp, and also a Classe preamp, which while solid state has a bit of a tube-like character as well.I don'... | |
| Transport for DAC Kijanki -- Do you happen to know if the dac chip(s) and circuitry are identical between the current versions of the dac1, the dac1-usb, and the dac1-pre? Their site has a comparison chart that deals mainly with functionality differences, but it's ... | |
| Transport for DAC keep in mind that the length of the interconnect cable between transport and dac is perhaps just as important as the dac itself. Correction: At the end of this sentence I meant to say "as the transport itself," not "as the dac itself."Regards,-- Al | |
| Transport for DAC I'm not familiar with the jitter suppression capabilities, if any, of the Bel Canto DAC3. But assuming they are not comparable to those of the Benchmark DAC1 which Kijanki referred to, keep in mind that the length of the interconnect cable between... |