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| Customizing sound through digital interconnect Hi Amfi, please elaborate the following section:"...and it is possible to introduce new spurious waves by the summation of reflected waves with smeared waves. You do not necessarily hear a "tick", because this is only one packet of 44,100 signals ... | |
| Customizing sound through digital interconnect Hi Amfi, so you are saying that by altering the shape of the square wave you can change the sonic characteristics of the digital interconnect? Please elaborate. According to the theory digital data stream is either corrupt or not. Digital is discr... | |
| Customizing sound through digital interconnect It is still a mystery to me that a digital interconnect cable can alter the "frequency response" and frequency/amplitude behaviour of music signal while it is only transporting 1's and 0's. Can anyone explain this? Any expert in the field of digit... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Ehider, are you talking about the Daniel Hertz USB DAC with the proprietary Burwen Bobcat DSP?Chris | |
| Why do amps sound different? Kurt, thanks for your input. A highly reputable Swiss manufacturer of audio amplifiers relies on the test bench results. According to this manufacturer a power amp should measure perfectly, until then it is flawed. When you do test bench measureme... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Why is it not possible to repair a jitterized recording? Jitter is the minute variations in the time intervals between the bits, so if you remaster the recording using some form of reclocking device, you can get rid of these minute variations. How... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Sean, is it possible once jitter is introduced into a specific recording to remaster this recording in such a way that the jitter could be eliminated? If this is not possible, why not? Are those early digital recordings sounding bad because of the... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock So, now we are finally approaching the pure "bits-are-bits" theory with the USB based digital music reproduction (as was intended from the beginning) and we're leaving the vagueness of the bits-are-bits + something magical concept. This could be a... | |
| Tube amps have a signature sound Ralph, I have read somewhere that in fact negative feedback could improve an amplifier's behaviour. Is it true that there are two sorts of negative feedback: global feedback and local feedback and that global feedback is the bad one? I know this i... | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms In my experience air isolation is not the Valhalla of isolation. Sometimes the sound becomes a bit disembodied, loosing some of it's palpability. Imho some sort of constraint layer damping is superior in case of audio. Of course in high tech labor... | |
| B&W 703 - How to tame the highs? Why tubes? Tubes are not a panacea. Do these tubes make sound prettier than in real life, is that what you are in fact saying? High frequency roll off maybe or treble softening? So, if that is the case than it is the coloration of tubes you like. ... | |
| Importancy of DAC's analog section One of the things that the modification people are replacing are the output OPamps chips in the analog section of the CD-player/DAC. These OPamps are often of inferior quality. It is better to replace those OPamps with good sounding ones or to use... | |
| Extreme Midrange Bloom That's why I don't prefer tubes: too much hassle.Chris | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Do you really think jitter is the only reason for awful digital sound? The P-01 transport has very low jitter but still benefits from the Rubidium clock. There are other transport that have more jitter but sound as musical and with the same detail... | |
| Extreme Midrange Bloom How much midrange bloom is needed? With other words: can you have too much midrange bloom? When does midrange bloom becomes an euphonic coloration?Chris |