erik_squires
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| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions Hi Sherod!FYI, these two caps are not really equivalent. The Audyn is VERY physically large and very expensive for the uF. Also the largest Audyn TC cap is around 2.2uF. For these three reasons it’s much more useful as a bypass cap. In my case I’m... | |
| Wilson New Speaker Master Chronosonic I don’t wish to argue the WMC are beautiful or worth the money, nor can I attest to their sound qualities. In the past I have found Wilson’s juiced and not completely natural but I have to agree with this statement from Dave Wilson in principle, e... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! It's also important to say, differences are not better or worse necessarily. Maybe two amps sound different. Is one better or worse, is it worth caring about? Are you trying to make your ears more sensitive or enjoy music and movies more? :) We ge... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! @jrunr I would listen to them. :) Bridging is a tricky thing, possibly involving slightly more circuitry at the front end, and possibly lower damping factor (Higher impedance). How much is audible? Is a higher 8 ohm power rating going to help you ... | |
| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions @timlub Thanks tim. Letting a thread get off topic is the death knell. The purpose gets lost and those who were interested no longer will be. If I am guilty of this too I apologize.Threads are free. If you have a cool idea for a topic start a new ... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Hi @jrunr Regulator or not, the question is whether they all share a transformer, that's where the money/size/weight is. If I were designing them, I'd stick to 1 power supply model, and add or remove amp modules as necessary. Best,E | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Here is the relevant part: The AT52XNC amps are rated at 200W RMS per channel at 8 ohms with300W RMS at 4 ohms and are available with 2 to 8 channels. The AT54XNC amplifiers use two N-Core modules per channel in a differential bridged output ... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! So I just checked out ATI's multi-channel nCore amplifier. It looks really interesting, except packing that many channels (8) into a single chassis limits the total simultaneous output. If you only have a pair of hard to drive speakers, this shoul... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! @jrunr No, not necessarily. :) Usually you can tell by how low a speaker impedance it is rated for (8 --> 4 --> 2 --> 1 Ohm) and how well the power doubles each step down in impedance. So for a 50 watt amp the best should put out 400 Watt... | |
| Bryston BDA-2 Or Yggdrasil Help I'll give you an example of two DAC's I like a lot now.The Shiits rely on proprietary oversampling, the Myteks do not. Both sound really good to me, so I don't think the answer is entirely in bit wrangling. :) Best,E | |
| Bryston BDA-2 Or Yggdrasil Help hi @plutos I don’t claim to know all old DAC’s or oversampling/upsmapling variations. :) I have been putting DAC’s into the bucket of great bargains AND good sounding at all resolutions because I don’t remember any DAC having this combination o... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Chris has excellent measurement tools too. I would be surprised if you asked for a matched pair and it was that far off. Do you have a reference resistor?? Relatively cheap to buy a 0.5% resistor to compare. | |
| Bryston BDA-2 Or Yggdrasil Help Hi @plotus,Sorry, this is my short hand. Over the past 5 years or so a number of really good DAC’s have appeared that can play Redbook AND high resolution very well under $2,000. Smooth extension without exaggeration, no grain or fatigue. Some of... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil @c_avila1 Good feedback. :) E | |
| Clarity Cap CMR Impressions AudioI am doing the testing I am doing exactly because of the differences. :) That and that I really want to remake the crossovers and need to wait for resistors to come in. The nature of engineering and testing is not always to build up full prot... |