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| Ground Wire Very likely a ground loop complex topic why don’t you Google and read up on ground loops and then do a bunch of experiments to identify it and eliminate it also how are you driving mono block amplifiers with a phono stage and no volume control in ... | |
| Power Conditioner vs A/C cables note on some comments above. IMO the gold standard for a real, practical power conditioner is an industrial isolation transformer. if oyu get one in the 2 kilowatt range, it will deliver plenty of transient power capability, will eliminate and D... | |
| Power Conditioner vs A/C cables I believe that good power filters are very useful. Both to filter your AC, and to block digital noise from the digital/switching power supply components (computers, TVs, other). This means a mains filter AND a 2nd one, can be fairly simple, just f... | |
| 6.5 vs 8 vs 10 woofer Nonsense. It depends on several factors bu is certainly not as simple as you suggest (or often even in that direction!):1. rollover frequency - lower means less coloration due to cone distortion2. Area - Pi*R^2 = more is better to move air; more ... | |
| Is it safe to use a higher amperage rating fuse? There is just so much to deal with in that question, adn the related storeis, that my head spins.Simple answer: generally no. And the ONLY time you should deviate is if you understand the reason the engineering, and then you would not b asking.Th... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness i have no basis to comment specifically on the Aurender, but somewhere int he back of my engineer's mind, i'm asking "how do we separate the heoretical advantages and disadvantages of he MQA format from the specific chips that must be inserted to ... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness Well, since i design gear, that’s a moving target.But the constants: Roon, wired ethernet (no wifi); one unfold; prototypes of the amps and preamps i have designed over the decades, including current projects; cables = nothing special since i fuse... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness Nope. Quite the opposite. Note i am not using an MQA 2nd unfold decoder - in essence I'm getting the full resolution but none of the magic mushroom juice of the proprietary chip -- good or bad. very hgih end system though, and Roon performing the... | |
| Are "vintage" DAC's worthwhile, or is this a tech that does not age well @eric_squires wrote:I suspect this has to do with much more accurate clocks and anti-jitter technology in the underlying silicon. My experience with my stable of DACs is that the DAC itself is the least important component - anything can b made to... | |
| Best DAC / Budget The Schiit Modi is a very low cost DAC. I have a Modi3, and its excellent - for $99. I'll come out and say though, that unless you only play audiophle records, even the lowly Modi2 ought to regularly equal your phono, or something's wrong. In th... | |
| Are "vintage" DAC's worthwhile, or is this a tech that does not age well There was an almost identical thread recently. You ought to look it up. I wont repeat the lengthy post i made, but i will say:1. I have no dog in this fight, yet.2. I totally disagree that DACs sound alike. And i run single blind experiments all... | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion Are you kidding?Did you read?Did you join the discussion when this was posted directly here about a year ago?This is a manufacturer "white paper" - aka infomercial. | |
| What is the average life expectancy of a DAC? LOL some of us bottom-feeders love depreciation. Buy a $5k DAC for $700 when its no longer the shiny object ......:-) | |
| What is the average life expectancy of a DAC? I think there are two questions embedded in yours - one obvious, one hiding.The hiding question is "how long until it is obsolete and [possibly to you] worthless".The surface question is "how long will it operate reliably".If you buy a quality DAC... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? ... as already noted, because it does not always sound better. I can easily design a horrendous class-A amplifier. Design is everything. All the practical benefits are noted as well, but i can further assure you that the cost (transformer, device... |