itsjustme
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| Cat 5 - 6 -7 or 8 Hey antigrunge - what about cat8 (which i admit i have never looked into, or franklly, seen) that creates ground loops? What did they change? TIA, G | |
| Cat 5 - 6 -7 or 8 as the grades go up they are characterized for higher speeds, which means a better pulse/rising/fal;ling edge response. This is just plain better for timing information. So later is better. Will it make much difference? That depends on what ... | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation For the digital cable, try to get a true 75 ohm cable. Most are not, and frankly RCA plugs are not 75 ohm (its a stupid standard, get BNCs!, ok rant off) It must be intended for digital or will distort the threshold crossings that determine timin... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? @High-amp if you are doign a remodeling, my advice is run LOTS of ethernet cables from a hub location. eventually you'll want it (much better than wifi). It can be nice to create roon zones through the house. I also ran a "home run" 20A circui... | |
| Best place to purchase a new Denafrips Pontus II Why USB? USB is a superior interface. SP/DIF has issues - depending on the mode, the clock is the sender (not good) and without a dedicated clock wire (clock is derived) timing/jitter is suspect. G | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? itsjustme - Having read and re-read your many susequent posts I find you are at another level, far above my undersatnding of computers. When I was using my MacBook Air via USB to DAC I thought it sounded great. And it can, in fact sound pretty ... | |
| Different R2R DACs I never buy by technology. It is always in the implementation. Bingo. As i point out i once desigend three circutis - one tube, one BJT one FET. They all had the same baic sound (except of coruse whne the tube on had a challenging load). ... | |
| Best place to purchase a new Denafrips Pontus II If you want a non-grey market unti is there a choice? Vinshine is the distributor. End. Prices are uniform. And Alvin was very nice to work with. | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? Haveing read and re-read the OP and many susequent posts, i admit its a little confusing. But my read is OP is not unaware of computer/DAC methods and has tried some. Heck, if he's tried Roon he's way beyond ("you can use a PC as a source"). ... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? BTW, if you choose the Allo, its based on the ESS 9038 chip and therefore has transparent (no truncation errors) digital volume control. No balance, but voluem contorl. For an all-digital system that has real advantages both in signal chain integ... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? itsjustme - $700 it’s ok but there are much better" Suggestions, please? OK, but remember that things are personal, i have not heard everything etc. I really try to avoid the superficial "buy this i like it". Using that logic we can deduce fr... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? A MBP with bitperfect is a decent source sonically. depending on the program you use to catalog and stream it can be weak or strong, but you want streaming anyway. I'm not sure how good/bad the native streaming clients are - warning I have seen s... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? If you search, i have posted pages of posts on making digital good - its more than buying box(es). You'll need both a server and a DAC. What have you tried? what are your sound objectives? You say "no Roon". Roon actually would be a srong sugge... | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? I started to watch the video but the first statement in the video: "The square wave and the sine wave are the same thing only with distortion" is complete lunacy. OK, i would not state it that way. But...., step back. A distortion is a "change or ... | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? There's a lot more to it than that. Different dielectrics (insulators) have different properties. I wasn't going there but thumbs up. Anyone who doubts read a datasheet on capacitors and all the characteristics of them; most critically to us (IMO... |