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| Digital Audio Cables: Wire or Optical Genesis -The bandwidth of Toslink is at least 6Mbits/sec, assuming that you have your transport and DAC within shouting distance of each other. Note that as Jcbtubes said, plastic fiber links (including Toslink) can run much faster. The datastream... | |
| Digital Audio Cables: Wire or Optical Genesis168 wrote: "Problem exist on the receiving end of the DAC whre the optical receiver cannot cope with the bandwith and speed of the optical transmitter on the transport end causing a time delay in converting the optical signal to electrical.... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Jensen model?? (1975)B&O model?? (tried to address time linearity) (1977)Mission 770s (~1982)NHT 2.5i (~1997)Magnepan 1.6QR (1999)Dunlavy SM-1 (2001) + REL Q150 (2002)Dunlavy SC-VII (2005) | |
| Naive question about digital encoding You won't get anything in the DVD-A format per se through your DAC, as the player will not pass the DVD-A signal through its digital outputs. To hear the DVD-A, you need to use the player's analog outputs.What you're getting from the DVD player's ... | |
| cornfedboy, signing off A lawyer with ethics???? ;-) Just kidding, CFB. I always enjoyed reading - and learned from - your postings, regardless of whether we agreed or not. You were a great contributor to Agon!Cheers!Jordan | |
| Digital Dilemma The MSB LinkDAC has both Toslink and coax inputs, not just coax. Try 'em both - they should sound pretty much the same. "Pretty much" may even mean identical! ;-) | |
| subwoofer setup problem Full agreement with Sugarbrie - you want a fair amount of "underlap". You might want to start with the crossover point close to half an octave below (or perhaps even a bit lower) where the mains start to rolloff. Trying the REL Strata with my Dunl... | |
| How come that when most audiophiles Albert, you posted a list of features and elevated them to the level of standards for an ideal speaker. To quote you:"My "impossible" speaker posting was exactly on topic because it listed ideal standards for that single driver system, including t... | |
| How come that when most audiophiles The key, as pointed out by Onhwy61 and Craig is "Everything should be made as simple as possible, BUT NOT SIMPLER". Not all speaker designers are willing to compromise phase and time performance just for simplicity's sake, even in their wide bandw... | |
| How come that when most audiophiles I don't see any reason whatsoever that an ideal speaker "must" -- have SPLs from 88-95 dBW at 12 feet?- have an 8 ohm impedance?- have a driver that measures and weighs less than the air it displaces?- use a magnet that delivers equal force, etc. ... | |
| How come that when most audiophiles Not all speaker manufacturers avoid the phase issue. See, notably, Dunlavy which documents both frequency and time domain performance. Vendors such as Thiel and Audio Physics (IIRC) and some others also place emphasis on this as well.Whether "musi... | |
| Can POWER CORDS really make that big a difference? Bmccormick - No, I certainly wasn't calling anyone who states that they can hear a difference between PCs a pathological idiot that wastes money!! The "pathologic" part of my comment only referred to what I would consider very out of the ordinary ... | |
| Can POWER CORDS really make that big a difference? I was referring to situations such as PCs with too-small a gauge, extreme amounts of RF noise, etc. Sean's suggestion of the power-line conditioner would fix the latter problem, although I suspect (haven't tested, though, so only suspect) that thi... | |
| Can POWER CORDS really make that big a difference? You wrote: "Why is it that every darn thread on power cords there has to be someone who has to voice an opinion that they are clearly a waste of money?"I refer you to the original poster's first question: "Can a power cord really make an audible d... | |
| Can POWER CORDS really make that big a difference? Except in some very pathologic conditions, you won't hear a difference between stock and kilobuck power cords, or any PC inbetween for that matter. That's if you listen just using your ears, however. People can "hear" all sorts of amazing things w... |