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| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? The stereo program on SACDs is an AREA of the disc, not a layer. The layer idea (Hybrid SACD only) relates to a media that can be read by regular CD players.At present a DVD-A disc does not have a stereo program although (1) the player can do a re... | |
| Is vinyl dead ? Tube equipment is still around, in fact prehistoric single-ended amplifiers are a fad. Similarly, there are probably 80rpm records being spun somewhere, and perhaps even wax cylinders.There will always be an interest in historic recordings, even i... | |
| Decca London Cartridge? It may interest you that the very earliest Decca stereo pickups (long before 1973) had Horizontal and Vertical groove modulation outputs (Left + Right and Left - Right), and required a mixing network to come up with the Left and Right signals of t... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Bomarc...I really don't know where I learned what I posted: it was long long ago, and I know I have seen it many times. See also the comment by ralph@ above.Sometimes there is confusion about numbering of harmonics. If you do a Fourier analysis of... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Tube amplifiers characteristically produce second harmonic distortion whereas transistors like to produce the third harmonic. Musical instruments typically make second harmonic sounds, so the tube amplifier distortion, even if rather high, is ofte... | |
| Is vinyl dead ? The wake is now in process. This is it. Say nothing bad about the dear departed. | |
| Building a Subwoofer For an amplifier, consider QSC RMX 1450 Pro sound unit...450 watts @ 4ohms. Even the midrange and higher sounds good, and you will only be using it at LF. Put the $600 you save into better drivers. Rergarding crossover...think about the Audio cont... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? In my earlier comment I said "low cost equipment" instead of "Pioneer DV-45A". (I, and others familiar with this unit, were starting to sound like a broken record). Is there any other $400 player that does it all?At the moment there do seem to be ... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? sean...Is it fair to say that the many PLL transcevers that you work on are all in the shop because they aren't working well? After you fix them, don't they all work great? | |
| How many bits? There was a time when transistors were replacing tubes, and table radios and portables were advertized as having some particular number of transistors. The more the better, supposedly. Of course manufacturers quickly picked up on this and started ... | |
| Choral or Classical Vocal Recordings - Must Have If you want to give your subwoofer a workout, try Telarc SACD-60579 "The Sound of Glory"... Morman Tabernacle Choir. They have the mother of all organs in Salt Lake City.(This is a Hybrid SACD, but I have no idea how it sounds on a regular CD play... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? Why pick sides? Go with both using low cost equipment until the dust settles. Even a low cost DVD-A gets you 24bit 96Khz, which in practice seems as good as the SACD DSD coding. (Actually in either case the sound quality depends mostly on how the ... | |
| setting up a listening room in unfinished basement I'm sure you need to do some accoustic treatment of the concrete space, but, before you do so, set up the audio gear and play some dixieland jazz. If you have an old horn midrange/tweeter speaker so much the better. I did this once upon a time, an... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? sean...Your comment about unit-to-unit differences was very true in the days of analog tuners, where exact alignment of multiple stages of tuning circuits was as much art as science. With today's digital tuners and phase lock loop chips I had the ... | |
| Cable management "Hanging all over the place" is probably better, from an electrical point of view, than neatly bundled together. Just keep signal wires away from power. If neatness is the prime requirement, use plastic wire ties (at Radio Shack or the local hardw... |