erik_squires
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| Class D Technology I've been living with ICEPower based amps for six months, I don't hear any of the issues being discussed, and my speakers have extension beyond 30kHz. | |
| Berkeley audio alpha dac Magico uses them pretty often for demo's, so they can't be very bad. :) Personally while I appreciate them for being extended, detailed I also find them a bit cool. Not hard or harsh at all, just cool. I prefer the Mytek Brooklyn's in terms of tha... | |
| Ayre Codex - to keep or not to keep Hi Lee!! The gold standard is Jensen. Very expensive, but very very good. I make these converters from German parts for far less, but still very good. Best,Erik | |
| Ayre Codex - to keep or not to keep I would keep it and add an output transformer. :) Best,Erik | |
| Class D Technology Tim, If you can't hear the difference, stop! :) Unless you are a QA professional, learning to tell the difference in equipment you couldn't hear before doesn't lead to better enjoyment. I traded in my class A/AB amps after evaluating class D and f... | |
| Tube Physics Question Not exactly. Nelson Pass is famous however for noting that too many amplifier makers focus on the extremes of power delivery, and not enough reviewers, specs or designers worry about the linearity, quietness, etc. of the very first watt. | |
| Analog output for hifi "composite" only refers to the video signal. :) The L and R RCA are normal line audio level. | |
| Help me with my short list The Mytek 192 is old. :) The Brooklyn is it's replacement. One really inexpensive unit you should audition is the Parasound Zdac. Much better sounding than it's price point. The Ayre Codex is another small unit many really like. If you want portab... | |
| D'Appolito on What Matters Sorry to hear that. I was actually just thinking that. It's super convenient to match two speakers via DSP. I wonder how much of the benefit of things like DiracLive or Audessey comes just from matching speaker frequency response hyper-accurately. | |
| D'Appolito on What Matters unsound,If you are making high end, that makes sense! :) It was probably a crap load of work then too! :) Not just drivers, but caps and coils are notorious for varying. Depends of course on the type and maker. It's totally worth buying 1% resist... | |
| D'Appolito on What Matters In case others don't know, D'Appolito has designed many different types of speakers but he is most famous for the configuration that bears his name, the MTM (midwoofer, tweeter, midwoofer). Not all MTM designs are D'Appolito and not every speaker ... | |
| D'Appolito on What Matters Dunlavy's article is interesting too, though at fist blush, the idea of matching instrument radiation patterns seems bogus, and not what I read acousticians and other speaker makers attempting to do. I'm an unqualified pretender though, so I'll ha... | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... And.... Patricia has it on Vinyl at her store for $70. :) | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... The SACD versio is only half that. :) Either way I'd rather have a download. | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... Yeah, MQA reminds me of dark energy, a lot. :)In addition to the unproven sound quality enhancements, I really like the data compression part of MQA. If I could losslessly compress my flac files to 1/8th the current size I would love it. However, ... |