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| Toroidal vs. Non-toroidal Transformers Here is a cut-and-paste from an article written by Ken Stevens of CAT in 1998 (w.r.t. to AC power it should be relevant even today):--------------The EI transformerÂ’s superior handling of DC offset in the primary is certainly part of the story. Al... | |
| The best digital IC, period. Rpg,good to read this & thank you for being up-front & admitting that the very high $ cables did not measure up. That takes a lot of candor & guts (as you well know). :-)Now, where does one buy this Canare digital cable - the exact one... | |
| Upscaling Speakers, Downscaling Amp...What to Do? Curriemt11,looks like you are married to the Grinch!!Anyway, I 3rd, 4th, 5th, Nth the recommendation that you stay put w.r.t. to your speakers. No need to hurry up & buy the next level up speaker - you do NOT always get better sound as you cli... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly 01-09-12: Husk01Check out the video review at Avshowrooms.com Great new site..indeed! thank you for this info & the link. | |
| How many enjoy low $ second system sound? yup, I'm this category too - enjoy my bedroom system a lot. It's not as cheap as I would have liked it to be but much cheaper than my main rig. Yields fantastic sound & unlike Doug Schroeder the sonics do not wear on me. it does not come close... | |
| No, You Cannot Bi-Amp 01-20-12: MagfanRelative power needed is almost entirely governed by crossover point.If you crossed over at 10khz, you could make due with a 30 watt tube amp on top of a 300 watt SS.Than, other issues would come to the fore. Right! A major "other ... | |
| No, You Cannot Bi-Amp As for Bombaywalla, I realize his need for clarity and precise arguments is bothering him when he reads my posts.I tend to be oblique, and assume folks have some basic sense. Also perhaps he is not really getting some of my subtle humor?To Elizabe... | |
| No, You Cannot Bi-Amp Hi Al,Like-wise, you yourself have a lot of technical expertise & your many answers to forum posts written in a congenial manner have been appreciated by me & many others as well. Where I was coming from was:* Elizabeth's post, to me, defi... | |
| Back In the Day I think that this phenomenon of churning equipment goes hand-hand with the internet taking off i.e. the public has ready & easy access to a used & new equipment market that it did not have in 1980s. Plus, the number of manuf in each segmen... | |
| Dump the Wadia 781? My personal perference is for Wadia (& this might be biased as I'm a Wadia owner). I've heard the dCS upsampler + DAC + Clock unit (which was connected to a dedicated music computer). While the sound was very good (there were a few things not ... | |
| No, You Cannot Bi-Amp 01-18-12: ElizabethIn my mind biamping is a 'teenage' phenomenon.If one is good, two MUST be better.Yeah a few folks are able, with effort to make it work for themselves.In general it is a waste of time, if as much effort was made to have one amp ... | |
| My first encounter with K2 Mastering Kijanki,here is a bit more technical info on JVC's K2 process:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Resolution_Compact_Discit seems that besides the A/D & down-conversion, the aspects of making a physical disk are also precision controlled. Th... | |
| My first encounter with K2 Mastering Kijanki,I meant to answer your question but it slipped my mind! Anyway, better late than never....In the original K2 & in the newer K2HD processes the key does lie in the A-D conversion from the master tapes/original digital recording and then... | |
| My first encounter with K2 Mastering I believe that there are 2 K2 masterings available now - the original (JVC) K2 which used 20-b mastering & today you can get K2H2 which I believe uses 24-b mastering. Just reading your post, I believe that you got the older/original K2 mastere... | |
| Hello, I may have a chance to go to Japan with my boyfriend. He is being sent there on business and I am going to look at cd players while I am there (if I go). Japan and the US have different voltage requirements, does a voltage converter work well? Does it change the sound? If the... |