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| Projects, rebuilds and or modifications…. I’ve been in the middle of designing a fully remote, all-discrete integrated amp going on 3 years now :-) So many details o work out, mostly from scratch. switching, switching logic, display logic, EMI immunity, gain stage, RIAA stages with 1500X ... | |
| Integrated Amplifiers - Luxman vs Pass Labs Interesting that you find Pass to be 'lean'. From all my reading of Pass and their lower end heft, I would have thought it provides a bigger, fuller body to music; which is to my liking. Me three. That really surprises me, but i've not really ... | |
| DAC Question: Delta-Sigma vs R2R back to the OP's question. R2R DACs run each of the 16-24 bits through a specific resistor pair combination to create the analog counterpart, then sum and filter the result. Bitstream DACs use pulse density modulation on a single resistor. The m... | |
| Please recommend speakers Well, as noted, you can only get "so much" from bookshelf speakers - and frankly i dont know which ones are good. But if you can place speakers in free space on stands - consider used Vandersteen 2s (any vintage that hits your pricepoint) or Spic... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... @millercarbon Seriously? Like you haven't seen my posts or followed my links on why the "digital" input signal is in fact quasi-analog. Anyhow. That assertion carries a HUGE caveat; whether it is truly digital or quasi-analog depends where ... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... @millercarbon - how does EFM get distorted, without resulting in a a bit error? There is no timing synch at that point of the recovery chain.... Was "greed pen" a typo? I DID try a green marker back in the day. It clearly made the edge green. | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... OK, i'll bite: what is being demagnetized? | |
| Is Pretty Good Good Enough? Listening Habits In The World Of Streaming Services. Just some advice. If Tidal at FLAC, or better yet, kinda-sorta-HD (MQA sans 2nd unfold) is not better than the same CD, you don't have something set up right. Long ago i concluded that ripped to my laptop and played back bitpperfect >> h... | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. I had to go back and remind myself what i read back when i last looked at Pis for audio. I've had other pressing issues int he intervening 9 months. From my perusal of the (sparse) documentation and the schematic it seems that they have separated... | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb @cindyment I mean both IM and unpleasant harmonic distortions (i prefer to simply use the musical term dissonant so that it is better understood). I leave that definition to music theorists and psychoacousticians. reference for those who wish t... | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb one thing is for sure the best measurements don’t always sound the best . A perfect example A vacuum tube amp,or preamp measure no where near as good as even a mid fi amp but it’s distortions being even just sound right to the ear I am always... | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. One of the big improvements of the Raspberry PI 4 was to separate the USB bus from the ethernet bus. Why?... Because of the noise of the shared bus. Yep! And its a big improvement. On the 3 you had to build a HAT | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. Roon NUC w/2 SSDs Custom LPS Bridge to isolate and distribute the computing load (bridge = Rpi Ethrernet in USB out) Custom LPS for that Isolation on USB --> DAC; either DAC powers USB or i have yet another very small LPS to power just th... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference @cindyment Thanks, and yes, either could impact sound, and neither is completely easy to 100% eliminate. All the power supplies and isolation i refer to are custom designed and built by me - as are some of the interfaces and clocks. So with luc... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference @Cindyment Thanks, and yes, either could impact sound, and neither is completely easy to 100% eliminate. All the power supplies and isolation i refer to are custom designed and built by me - as are some of the interfaces and clocks. So with luc... |