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| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions Ya I am calling that one out ... even cheap no name ones from China huh? Sure.Why do people make up stories? Ask any DAC designer (good ones) and they will tell you the implementation, i.e. output stages, power supply, clocks, etc. matter far mo... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? ahofer,From what I understand, anything that looks like a "bet" is frowned upon here. Period. This is a commercial site. I can see why they avoid any potential to appear to be facilitating something like that. They don't have Facebook's lawyers. I... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions I can be passionate about technical details, but please understand I absolutely think personal preference (our ears) are the most important. It does not matter what I think or link, it matters what you like. However, I think it is important not to... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? I always get a kick out of this slide in Floyd’s presentation. Start watching at this time location:https://youtu.be/zrpUDuUtxPM?t=3220It will of course be noted that "Audio Reviewers" did poorly. Retail audio sales, better, but not great. Selecte... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection It is not a matter of disagreeing of agreeing. This is objective engineering, not subjective listening. Everything in what I wrote is easily verified through simulations or building and testing. I will absolutely agree that added resistance whet... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions Correct, RedBook, 16/44, 24/96, or DXD, done with R2R Multibit and done right is "Bit Perfect", where DS (Delta Sigma, 1-Bit, Bit-Stream, Single Bit), is just a facsimile. But it does do DSD, but then there a few discrete R2R Multibit dacs out ... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions Actually those classic cars do get trounced by modern designs in virtually every aspect. Acceleration, handling, top speed, fuel economy, rel world handling over uneven surfaces. You name it. It's not even close. A classic car does not get "trounc... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection I only stated that when charge time gets higher - ripple is higher (capacitor is charged from the bottom of the ripple to the next peak)Which is wrong. The next peak (voltage) will get smaller, and the total ripple will be lower. The high freque... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection "highly filtered analog outlets" without inductors. Well that leaves you with resistors and capacitors, or just capacitors. If you just have capacitors then you are not highly filtered, and if you have a resistor, you have time lag. "Video images... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection You are saying the voltage ripple gets larger. Prove it. That is a common misconception that is actually not true. The worst case voltage ripple will not get worse with added resistance.Yes the voltage (average) on the capacitor may be lower. I ne... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection The AC line only supplies voltage for a small part of the waveform every 1/100 or 1/120th of a second. If you are current starving the AC input the you are clipping. The relatively small loss of voltage on the secondary of the power supply due to ... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection Garth Powell writes some words but offers no proof or even solid technical discussion. This is word smithing for consumer marketing. The higher current the peaks the larger the instantaneous voltage change which is much harder to filter out for su... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection I am talking about noise and distortion because that is what we hear. The lower the resistance the bigger those spikes are, the bigger the harmonics of the AC and the bigger potential for THD due to AC harmonics.We don’t hear power loss.Those spik... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions Classic cars are nice to look at. Put it on the track with something modern and it gets trounced. Those who claim classic cars are "better" than modern cars are using the same congitive dissonance of those claiming that the TDA1541 magically enabl... | |
| One year down, two to go. What's the longest you have saved for one component? That equipment will never love you back.It would be lovely to fall so in love with a component that I would be prepared to make a substantial sacrifice of time and money, but it's not a priority right now. |