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| why expensive streamers Same goes for cars; yeah, you can buy a car based on specifications alone, but specifications don't tell you what the leather smells like, how the door shuts so quietly, and how the engine sounds when you turn it on and how fun it feels when you ... | |
| why expensive streamers ^^^ I see that your DAC can take either spdif or usb. In general asynchronous usb is better than spdif everything else being equal - though it will also depend on implementation. | |
| why expensive streamers So, if you connect your server to your streamer using an optical cable, and USB from the streamer to a DDC that reclocks, and then a short s/pdif or AES/EBU to the DAC, are the bases mostly covered? If I understand correctly, what you have is ... | |
| why expensive streamers The sole purpose of this fifo would be to take care of the streamer noise. I don't think the FIFO (or what I called a memory buffer) can isolate the noise. I think you may be referring to data jitter - I am talking about ground and power sup... | |
| why expensive streamers The memory would assure that the analog noise and timing errors from the server would not affect this DAC circuitry. That is not quite correct. The buffer memory on the DAC is there to ensure there is no underflow - that is the data will alway... | |
| An argument for fuses and maybe power cables in power amplifier ^^^ On the other hand, on a poorly design AC-DC conversion amplifier, it will be the bottle neck therefore a power cable or fuse would not make a difference. For example on a cheap Japanese receiver, I doubt the fuse or power cable would make a d... | |
| Importance of clocking It is helpful to clarify whether the application is using s/pdif or asynchronous USB. For s/pdif, I think DCS uses what they call "reverse clocking" to minimize jitter in this case an external clock makes sense. The clock comes from the DAC doma... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? It could be the measurement was not done correctly. Here is the freq. response of the Thiel CS2.4 done by Stereophile. It doesn't look very good, but the speakers are very neutral and sound quite good. | |
| Would you buy a pair of speakers by just looking at the measured freq. response? While the ears can tell the difference in sound between a paper cone, aluminum, ceramic, soft dome vs. hard dome, is there a measurement out there that can measure these things? | |
| Evaluating Equipment-induced EMI noise in one’s audio system There may be noise but the equipment rectifiers will filter out most of the noise, so the EMI noise may not be the main culprit because it will be filtered out. Another thing to consider about the power conditioner or power regenerator is they lo... | |
| How rare is an audiophile Does it count to be an audiophile if one has a home theater system? | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? Women probably wonder why men don't like diamond they way they do. | |
| In a speaker crossover, are film inductors directional or have polarity? If you're referring to foil inductors, then they do not have polarity. You can hook up either way it should be fine. | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... There are something that is difficult to measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0sANL6BamY | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? No,no,no. You guys got it all wrong. Regardless of any non-linearity of your hearing or from the environment, you want you playback hardware to have a flat frequency response. |