ghostrider45
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| SCD-1 Questions... To Wally_li:Yes, that works, but then it screws up your other sources that have opposite polarity. Better to solve this at the source, if possible. | |
| What CD burner? Higher burn rates may result in lower precision on the boundaries between reflective and non reflective areas (can't call them pits on a CDR) on the tracks of a burned CD. This could result in inherently higher jitter from the CD, even though the ... | |
| Are You Satisfied? I think you hit on the real limiting factor in this hobby - time. I have a nice set up, and it sounds pretty good, but it's getting harder and harder to spend time with it. First problem is competing activities such as work, kids, and church. The ... | |
| SCD-1 Questions... Stehno is right about the new version of the SCD-1 using the American standard for the XLR pinout - just checked my owner's manual. I just read in the reviews that the connections were reversed and never checked firsthand. I usually invert the pol... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Marakanetz6 db/bit of dynamic range is the right answer, strange as it seems - check out any engineering textbook on digital signal processing. | |
| Pass Aleph series with Apogee?? I use Alpeph 1.2's with Duetta Signatures, and it's a match made in heaven. The Calipers are a bit tougher load than the Duettas. The Calipers are nominal 3 ohms vs the Duetta nominal 4 ohm. The 1.2's are still good for about 250 watts at this imp... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Good stuff.Add: Demagnetizing CD's.Also, re: #18: You get 6db/per bit, so the theoretical dynaic range of 16 bits is 6db x 16 = 96 db. | |
| SCD-1 Questions... #1 - Don't know how cheap the op amps are, but the SCD-1 is not digitally balanced so the balanced outs are not intrinsicly superior to the single ended outputs. Also, the balanced outs use the Japanese standard for pin connections (hot and cold a... | |
| What does "transformer coupled" mean? Actually, the transformer reflects the load impedance to the primary side (described in another post of mine), so there's no real isolation of reactance. The real benefit of transformer coupling is that it allows one to match almost any load imped... | |
| How to spot a high current amps? PS - to DwellerThe fuse argument is a good one, but not as you state it. Remember, the amp's power supply converts power line voltage up or down as required by the design (tube or transistor). You can't compare line current directly to speaker cur... | |
| How to spot a high current amps? Paulwp-I'm not saying it's a bad amp. It sounds like it was well engineered for its price point. But that doesn't stop the marketeers.Your last post sounds like the old "Instantaneous Peak Power" ratings that amps got in the 70's, before the FTC s... | |
| How to spot a high current amps? Paulwp, welcome to the world of marketing by specs.Remember, power = current squared times resistance. Using 40 amps and 25 watts, this says that:25 = (40)^2 * r where r = resistance. solving for r we get a value of about .015 ohms.In other words,... | |
| VPI redesigning experiment This is an interesting thread! In the guitar world (my other bad habit), maple is considered to be bright sounding. Mahogany has a more mellow, midrangy sound. Some guitars (notably the legendary Gibson Les Paul series) use mahogany with a thin ma... | |
| cd burning speed There shouldn't be data loss at the higher burning speeds, but the copies may exhibit higher inherent jitter due to inferior definition of reflective boundaries. Depends on the blank quality and the burner. | |
| Math calculations about the speed of a TT..help... Weisera - You're confusing angular velocity with linear velocity. The angular velocity of the LP is 33 and a third revolutions per minute (RPM). This value applies to all points of the record (except the point at the geometric center.)The linear v... |