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| Ribbon cable inside amplifiers @audphile1 i was just talking about replacing ribbon connectors with chips. For your imagination, no separate electronic boxes at all only speakers, yes you will have to plug in your speakers but by then people will realize that AC is changed to... | |
| Ribbon cable inside amplifiers Also today audio flows through integrated chips with incredibly small parts, plugins run audio through digital hoola hoops everyday all the time on every piece of music recorded with modern equipment. Chips are the best way to handle audio and the... | |
| Ribbon cable inside amplifiers @audphile1 This subject has been a problem for me for literally almost 40 years. It is not true that audio doesn’t follow ribbon cables, it is true that power both AC and DC moves through ribbon cables and board tracers. I have been in the situati... | |
| Ribbon cable inside amplifiers @invalid Yes bars for the output stage just like a real power plant. Just before WW2 the big power plant at Hermosa Beach Ca had the main output bars replaced with pure silver bars so if the Japanese did capture California they wouldn't get so muc... | |
| Ribbon cable inside amplifiers If you look at the inside of any piece of audiophile electronics it will not have the same kind of expensive wiring most people use for AC cables or speaker cables. Why? | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? @designsfx Thank you! No wonder everyone was so off topic. | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? R to R is the most overrated format ever it has horrible stats, if you put different forms of Dolby to get the his down you have to align and figure out what type of Dolby to decode. Only about 85 db of dynamic rage with all the many ratings they ... | |
| Lifting the Christmas veil I love my Roon 150, remember more important than anything else is using the I2S output it makes such an amazing improvement. | |
| (Hegel vs Luxman) vs PS Audio @krymer2 I have/had a lot of the same equipment you do, BHK everything, I have the Perfect Wave DAC MK2 and the transport also. I replaced the BHK preamp with a Boulder unit and went wow, the difference was bigger than I thought. I love the sound ... | |
| How to make your amp more expensive When I was buying the very best field recording equipment I was amazed at how light they were, new electronically balanced circuits are superior to iron transformers (even Jensen), but audiophile equipment uses iron transformers there is only 1 re... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. Grover Washington Jr. -Soul Box | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @mahgister There are lots of ways to make records sound good and volume level is probably the best but then you get the industry corrupting volume wars of the 80s it was horrible. Tubes make things sound better you would have to be slightly dead n... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @mahgister Here is a story about perception that I've never forgot. I was doing the production sound (recording the actors on stage) on the TV show "Bones" about 5 years ago. I was using an excellent sound package with all the very best analog r... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @hilde45 Here's a little cut and past of my studio speakers on some of the benefits of being powered in just the crossovers. A small part of the design. The active crossover design offers multiple benefits: The frequency response becomes in... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I would say the only advance I’ve seen to XLRs in 40 years of professional recording is star quad it uses a ground and 2x + and - signals that phase out physically along the cable. Nearly all of the studios and all the production sound I’ve done w... |