ghostrider45
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| CD Transports: Data Drops Etc... Followup to Aragain:The CD system depends on the Nyquist Sampling Theorem, which states that a band-limited analog signal (22.05 khz for CD) sampled at at least twice the band limt (44.1 khz for CD) can be exactly reconstructed from the time serie... | |
| dbx Noise Reduction Units I fooled around with dbx encoded discs about 12 years ago - in fact I still have a bunch of them. I ran them through a dbx 224x encoder/decoder (which I still have as well). Compared to unencoded discs, the dbx discs had enormous dynamic range and... | |
| FM radio for biking? Do you really want to block out ambient road sounds while biking? | |
| CAL Alpha DAC v AA DDE3.0 The DTI Pro 32 comes stock with an ST out. The ST in was custom ansd replaced the TOSLINK input (I had mine done to use with the Wadia).Modern DACS have gotten better at reducing jitter,. and with a good interconnect I think you'll get good perfor... | |
| Too snobbish for SACD as it exists? I think you're absolutely right about the name factor. It seems to be OK, though, to use Sony or Phillips components in these marquis products, as long as their nameplates don't show!How many high end products have used Pioneer or Sony transport m... | |
| CAL Alpha DAC v AA DDE3.0 An interesting but tough question to answer! It depends a lot on the quality of the new DAC and its jitter immunity vs the quality of the DDE 3.0.I can supply some anecdotal evidence. Last year I set up an (relatively!) inexpensive second CD front... | |
| Impulsive audio purchase Impulsive Audio Purchase - Is there any other kind? | |
| Gold disk VS regular disk? The gold disks are often remastered. This can make them sound better than, or at least different from the standard silver issues.I read somewhere that JVC tried different disc types for their XRCD premium line and concluded that siver discs sounde... | |
| Coaxial or Optical About 6 years ago I belonged to the "bits is bits" camp, and thought that interconnects couldn't possible matter. One weekend I brought home a Wadia dac from my dealer to try. He loaned me a $200 piece of coax to use, which I politely accepted wit... | |
| Where can I get small apogee speakers? Apogee actually made a small hybrid (ribbon/cone) speaker for monitoring purposes right before their demise. I don't recall the model, but I see them in used ads occasionally.Check the Apogee user's web site. I don't have the URL handy with me her... |