blues_man
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| Cheap bi-wiring? Leafs is right. Analyze the circuit. Bi-wiring only adds to the length of the signal path which makes it worse. If you don't know how to analyze the circuit, try this. Ideally the best length for speaker cable is zero. If it were zero, where would... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Gmkowal 2 points here. It ought to be obvious that your test is inadequate, simply use a CD source. It should take about 4 seconds if memory serves me to fill a 1 meg buffer of SPDIF data. That's real time. When I say jitter can not be measured ac... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Almost any album reorded by Blue Note through the mid 60s is GREAT. Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard etc. For the West Coast sound Contemporary recordings oh Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Art Pepper... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Using a FIFO and reclocking is not the end all and is not so simple. When the Gensis Digital Lens came out, Bob Harley assumed that all transports would sound exactly the same. He found that he was wrong. Rather than reclock, the best solution, gi... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? On someone's reccomendation I purchased a RadShack Digital RCA cable. They claimed it was very good, it was so bad there was audible static. I worked with an engineer once who screwed up the implementation of my DAC driver that it was always 2 bit... | |
| Any integrated using 6550 tubes... If you don't like the sound of the Svetlana 6550s that ARC ships, you can get some KT88s, KT90s or if you can afford it tung-sol 6550s from Upscale Audio | |
| Audio research LS25 any opinions I own a Ref 2. I'm not sure I want to upgrade and have SS components added as well as different tubes. ARC has been having problems with Sovtek 6992 so they are dumping 6992. I use NOS Mullards and they work great. The LS25 is an excellent preamp,... | |
| Best wires for cost RC audio has excellent sound for the money. They're just not that well known. I had them before I moved to all MIT cable. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? OOps almost forgot, in your test how did you verify that all samples sent were received and stored? If you sent 500,000 samples, did 500, samples get stored? | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I no longer have an analyzer, but whebn I did it was oked up to CD players and Transport / DACs. You just can't send bit patterns with your equipment because its probably far more sophisticated than what's in a CD playback system. Remember you als... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? The problem is really in the transmitter and receiver. Even though there is a "standard", there are always difference in implementation of the hardware. I started out believing that there was no difference in digital cables. That was before I was ... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Gmkowal just a follow on my previous response. If you don't believe me, prove it yourself. Attach a scope to the output of your DAC. Play some test tones on your transport, ( Use frequencies above 8k that's where the effect starts to be more notic... | |
| What are U using? Coax,ATT,XLR?? Rather than sticking all sorts of devices between yor Transport and DAC, I like custom interfaces like Spectral or Levinson etc. Other than that ATT Optical wins easily. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Gmkowal I don't believe that you understand the signal transfer in CD playback. Most other digital transactions people have discussed are NOT real-time. CD playback is real-time. The protocol is one way with 44000 transmissions per second. Signal ... | |
| Percentage to spend on Amp and Speakers Don't get hung up on percentages. My speakers (Dunlavy SC-IVAs) are cheaper than my amp, preamp,dac or transport. I believe Dunlavy speakers give you so much for the money, that they throw off the "normal" percentages. |