devinplombier
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| $500 used power cord for Lumin power supply Save $450 for something that really matters to the sound like power conditioning. Or better yet, two of these! | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @audphile1 S/PDIF can carry DSD when reencoded as DoP, as you pointed out. However it can only support DSD64, which is carried within a 24/176.4kHz PCM signal, essentially equivalent to 4 times Redbook (since DSD64 is 1-bit resolution at 2.8 MHz... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @audphile1 Thank you for pointing out that S/PDIF still works to connect legacy CD transports and many streamers, though it won’t work with SACD transports or for upsampling files beyond 24/192 or DSD with software like HQPlayer. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Toslink in my experience is inferior to spdif or USB @audphile1 TOSLink and USB are connection systems, whereas S/PDIF Is a communications protocol. S/PDIF was developed in the early 80s, specifically to support the then-new CD format. It wa... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Stereophile_AudioGlossary.pdf This should be a sticky here on the Audiogon forum! @unsound yes indeed it should! Thank you for the link, I hadn’t looked at it in I don’t know how long. Funny, this entry: Tweak: 1) To fine-tune a system or c... | |
| Wasted Years. @mahgister While I largely agree with your post, I’m skeptical that acoustics expertise and an affinity for high-end gear are mutually exclusive. I like gear. I appreciate rigorous engineering and elegant electronic design, I see beauty in impe... | |
| Thiel Owners https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4runQr6I8 I have mixed feelings... Feel free to skip to 11:25 or so. | |
| Wasted Years. It's easy in this hobby to miss the forest for the trees. Lots of folks around here have their noses glued to the bark. | |
| The verdict - Burmester 232 is worth MUCH MUCH MUCH more than its price!!! The integrated [OP has] is no doubt a marvel of technology. Wait til you see his Bentley! | |
| The verdict - Burmester 232 is worth MUCH MUCH MUCH more than its price!!! Integrated is very pretty. I have a sunbeam toaster and it’s a very pretty chrome toaster. This is a very unique toaster from the early 60s you literally do not have to touch the toaster to get toast. It has an automatic lowering mechanism and yo... | |
| The verdict - Burmester 232 is worth MUCH MUCH MUCH more than its price!!! Of all social media, facebook unfailingly indicates a man of wealth and refinement. | |
| Maybe someone can enlighten me. Like I said, I supported moderators’ choice to delete OP’s comment. But if I saw the exact same comment on another forum that doesn’t have audiogon’s recent history of political thread-jacking, I wouldn’t bat an eye. So these things are situat... | |
| Maybe someone can enlighten me. I don't freak out when someone brings up something automotive, or sports related, or their favorite whisky, but for some reason politics is the third rail. @hifiguy42 The reason politics became a problem here was a dynamic tag team of users w... | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ @westcoastaudiophile I've suggested that before: solder 10/2 wire directly to the amps' power supplies and run it straight to the electrical panel. No power cables, no wall receptacles, just two solid, uninterrupted runs of 10/2 all the way to t... | |
| Denafrips Pontus 15th, Pass Labs INT-60, and Wilson Sabrinas @craigvinet You made the right choice, there's no such thing as too much power. |