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| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions The TDA1541 was in acclaimed CD players in 1987. It's 2020. Those are the same players considered out of date and poor sounding by the 90s. That DAC was in many of the players that gave digital a bad name. Now it's awesome?Maybe the Orchid is the ... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection So you think large spikes every 120th or 100th of second causing large voltage spikes with high harmonic content is going to create less noise and distortion than a slowly changing voltage at the same frequency? What is the music peak is at 180 Hz... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection Sorry but your example is too simplistic to be realistic. That 10V drop assumes the capacitors never charge. They do of course. As well if there was 1 ohm resistance the spikes would not longer be 10A since current would be limited by voltage drop... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions How did a DAC that was way behind the times 30 years ago (TDA1541) magically become good? | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection I go with cool meaningless name for "balanced surge protection". Whole house is the way to go. Better to have the surge protection as far from the equipment as possible.Does it really kill dynamics? Unless you are clipping what is the mechanism by... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? Cleeds,That Michael Fremer article like most of what comes out of his mouth is idiotic.Even the most staunch anti cable people know that turntable cables are highly impactful on the sound. The article proves nothing really. His comment about level... | |
| I have been a stickler about keeping power cables away from signal cables...on equipment ? Studios are all differential. Jeff Smith's blurb is idiotic. Speaker cables ... | |
| Quick fuse question I can't say I am a proponent of fuses but those were rants most definitely. Reading a certain incensed persons interesting and quite wrong views on a number of topics I don't think they should be calling others technical Luddites. Let's start wit... | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... I would say these days, fuses in the output of amplifiers are not overly common. Some amps have them, but these are now the exception, not the rule. | |
| I have been a stickler about keeping power cables away from signal cables...on equipment ? When you have a neutral and live wire running side by side, the electrical fields are opposing and cancel out if the noise is what is called "differential", i.e. what we think of as current powering our equipment. Those fields because the wires ar... | |
| Digital cables It's like you are saying that cheap digital equipment is better at rejecting the noise and jitter in a digital signal than expensive equipment.... some equipment may not be good enough to yield noticeable SQ differences due to digital cable connec... | |
| One year down, two to go. What's the longest you have saved for one component? I am not sure I have ever "saved up" for a piece of equipment, not that I have not spent a lot on pieces of equipment. Listening to music gives me pleasure, but it is more the "get's me through the days" pleasure than building memories pleasure. N... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? ahofer,I have participated in blind amplifier tests where there was no difference noted, statistically absolutely random, and I have participated where the differences were statistically significant, with some bordering on readily apparent.I will ... | |
| Quick fuse question Anger issues coupled with a lack of knowledge. Charming.Fuses of the same current rating can vary 5x or more from the lowest resistance to highest resistance at the same operating current.Perhaps someone without anger issues and potty mouth would ... | |
| Quick fuse question Now apply that same analysis to the fuse in a pre-amp or DAC.Next, tell me, if I put in a fuse with higher resistance, will there be less or more noise on the output of the amplifier power supply, and will there be less ripple or more ripple? |