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| FUSE Question...Very Confused Please Help ! what they said. | |
| DACs that do well without a preamp @mitch2 Some quick answers: 1. No i have not listened to the unit you mention, but i have experimented with it myself. It does have one major limit- which you allude to below. The contorl must be very noise free 2. Paul’s quote is irrelevant f... | |
| DACs that do well without a preamp @cheeg It can't be the quality of the volume control ALONE, or the better companies would have fixed this flaw. Is the issue in the interface to the power amp (eg. an impedance mismatch), or is it a failure of the analog stage to accurately amp... | |
| DACs that do well without a preamp I find the "a preamp makes it sound so much better" a little confusing. My only conclusion is that many people try this without doing any homework. First - there's a huge question: how does the DAC perform volume control? Volume control, in gen... | |
| Ground voltage!! I would call an electrician; or call your landlord. If what you say is true, there is a serious safety issue. if you rent, its really not your responsability (but it is your problem). Now, let's also think diagnostically. Have you measured this o... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Um. Complex topic. As many have noted, few systems can reproduce the dynamic range of live music, especially near field. But overall the biggest limiting factor is recordings. Recordings vary from terrible to very, very good - but few are in tha... | |
| Simplest Linear PSU? Don’t be too critical of SMD. For semiconductor devices, the exact same dies are available in old fashioned THT and SMD. Difference: packaging. Packaging may affect heat rating, but for power applications you will find the devices are THT. In many... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp So, in case that was too techie and long, yes replace them all (if the ones you already have there are poor, we have no idea really). My two cents replace them with polypropolene films caps of the same or slightly higher voltage and the same capa... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp Let’s begin with the fact that capacitors are among the most non-linear parts of any amplifier -- so any real improvement is worthwhile. I don’t know what the existing caps are so none of us have any basis to comment on the upgrade value specifica... | |
| How much is about the recording Aside from the obvious good attitude of enjoying the music, i agree that the recording itself is the single biggest contributor to quality. Want proof? Listen to a mid-60s Verve or Mercury recording transferred to regular, old 16/44 CD. On a real... | |
| Gain / Amplification Given what you just said, i took a look at the parasound. Apparently it uses a relatively new B-B (TI) chip based resistor pair volume control. I have a bunch of experience with such chips, but NOT the BB. They are very good, but my experience dro... | |
| Gain / Amplification Let’s put clear cut opinions on the side. To answer this correctly, we need details on each stage, the nature if its gain, and how it is controlled. Its worth everyone understanding that in general the idea that "more or less gain is employed here... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... On the quibble, i understand that they enhance music with metadata (however, its not as great as they claim - not i'm a user since pretty much day #1) but there is no enhancement when my music does not play at all. Sure, give me the full experien... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @esarhaddon This has nothing to do with bits. The bits arrive just fine. The problem is ground noise and pre-processing of the bits. Most media players do digital manipulatino of the signal to put it on the media bus, and then spit it out. Most... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... a few points. While i agree that the problems re likely with WMP and the PC, i want to re-iterate where the problems likely lie. Not with the simple fact that you are using a PC -- but with two things: 1. The configuration settings, some of w... |