erik_squires
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| Marantz SA 8005 break in What are you running the SACD player with in terms of pre, amp and speakers? Also, are you in an apartment? They tend to have the worst power issues. :) Best,Erik | |
| Any options for low power class A amps? Class A is hard to find "small". How about the Parasound Zamp? It gets very good buzz, and quite small. Otherwise, not sure if you need it small in 3D or just 2D (i.e. small footprint) you could probably find some small SET amps. | |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that? Thanks everyone, I thought MFSL CDs were top notch, but man, what a let down this particular one was, especially given how many rave about it. I just learned something! :) | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments 600V is what I would consider an over-voltage, not a surge. A surge can be kilovolts, though in some cases very low current potential. However that is all it takes to fry silicon. These same circuits that you are touting as being good surge protec... | |
| Different PCs gives me very different results If you can, please try JRiver first. Truth is I loathe almost all music software. Somehow it always seems it was designed for people besides me. Of those, I hate JRiver the most, and can tolerate MediaMonkey. I'm very much alone in this though, b... | |
| 'outboard' high end dac's Hi !So you are in luck. :) The 105 (but not the 103) has USB 2.0 outputs! :) That means you can use any USB 2.0 DAC that is described as "driverless" for Linux or OSX. Of course, you can also use the regular SPDIF outputs as well, but most DAC's... | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments @cleeds I think @westom is talking about how traditional surge protection works, which is to short over-voltages to ground.I should note, just for being complete, that the series-mode protection is (by design) a low-pass filter so it works great o... | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments @westom Please describe which power supply design you are talking about? I haven’t done an exhaustive study, but after examining say, two dozen devices, including DAC’s, mostly amplifiers and preamps, headphone amps, etc., I have yet to see a sing... | |
| Different PCs gives me very different results First, Windows normal output is via a mixer, which pretty much means you won't get the right rate unless you set it, and even then your output won't be bit-perfect. It can be done, but I find getting Windows to output bit-perfect in any version is... | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments There are many different grades of UPS. PC/electronic are usually the very noisiest, but APC does make A/V specific, sine wave output versions. Severely overpriced for my needs. Best,Erik | |
| Recommendation please: Small inexpensive DAC for smart phone to receiver I really like the UFO DAC's but mine died after like a month, however when it did work it was marvelous, very close to the Pono or best Fiio outboard headphone amps. | |
| Digital media server/players for a Skeptic? So while I do use Linux to play my music, and movies, and Hulu, etc. in my living room, I often rip with MediaMonkey because it's just more convenient. It has better / easier autotagging than I have found on Linux so far. If I'm ripping 1 CD at a... | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? Well, I'm in no way arguing F-M. Of course, they are old, and may need updating, but the principle has been around and used for a long time. :) Best,Erik | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? Right, I wouldn't call F-M curves "psycho-acoustic" as your knowledge or lack of it has no bearing on the perception. It's more of an ear-sensitivity issue. If you remember equipment with a "loudness" switch, or dial, they were meant to compens... | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? In addition to the famous Fltetcher-Munson loudness curves, you don't talk about whether you are running a tube preamp or not.Tube preamps are sometimes quite sensitive to this, and it has to do with the impedance changing as the resistance in the... |