eldartford
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| looking for best isolation platform for CD player Sean...Can you explain it? "Working optimally" (your words) means that error-free data transfer is happening at the greatest possible bandwidth. In practice this means that correctable errors are occuring. Reducing the error rate can't hurt, but u... | |
| looking for best isolation platform for CD player Theaudiotweek...Please explain how error correction has any adverse effect on sound. An error CORRECTION code enables recovery of the original data, as if no error had occured. This is true up to the point where the error rate exceeds the correcti... | |
| looking for best isolation platform for CD player Geoffkait...How then do CD players work so well in automobiles, and even in portable players while joging? | |
| Where do tubes come from? The toaster is not really a joke. Tubes make lots of heat, and you could certainly build a toaster using them. What's more, you could probably sell it on Audiogon! (With a special power cord for improved English muffins). | |
| looking for best isolation platform for CD player Vibration isolation is not a problem unique to audio. At work we use a 8-inch dish of mercury as a reflective surface for optical measurements of true horizontal. (The mercury surface is a perfect level reference). However, the slightest vibration... | |
| Preamps. Do we really need them? Sogood51...Sometimes, on this site, it's hard to tell the jokes from the serious comments! | |
| Subwoofers? I have a problem with running the main speakers full range with only the subwoofer(s) bandlimited. IMHO, one of the advantages of using a subwoofer is to keep those large excursion low frequencies out of the main speakers, because they have an adv... | |
| Maggie 1.6QR vs 3.6R and Room Size Some folk, like me, prefer the quasi ribbon to the true ribbon, and then there are concerns about the reliability of the true ribbon. (But Magnepan does repair at reasonable cost).I have three MG 1.6, which permits me to play (without strain) just... | |
| Preamps. Do we really need them? There is no way to "clean up" an analog signal by running it through a few stages of amplification. There were (are?) active devices like Carver's Phase Linear Autocorrelator which was a dynamic noise filter which "cleaned up" LP rumble and surfac... | |
| Connecting CD directly to Poweramp All you need is a couple of resistors at the power amp input to attenuate the gain. (You could probaby just change one resistor in the amp).By the way, a "digital" volume control does not necessarily loose information. There is a resistor ladder n... | |
| McItosh MC60 MC60 power amps were very commonly used in electronics labs as a general purpose amplifier, with no application to audio. As such there must be a lot of them around, often as singles. | |
| Rediscovering the Joy of Digital? It's a darned nuisance to feed the horse, clean up the stall and hitch up the buggy every time I want to go somewhere, but it sure is enjoyable to trot down a country lane in my rig. Why do I need one of those new-fangled automobiles? | |
| Question About Low Frequency Sounds Aircraft designers have learned that any tendancy for the plane to oscillate (say in pitch attitude) at 1 to 2 Hz should be avoided. Humans (and that includes pilots) can't cope with that frequency, and when they try to do so they induce worse osc... | |
| your favorite violin or fiddle cuts, and why? Gonglee... Did you know that Kreisler was a flamboyant showman? On trick for which he was famous was playing some of his very difficult pieces with the violin held upside-down! | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? Zman...I seem to remember that it was Shure who introduced the idea of the bi-radial (eliptical), and (even better) fine line stylus. MR means "micro ridge").I will give a listen or two with the brush raised. I suppose that the brush could generat... |