jaytor
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| SonicTransporter i9 Optical Yes, I'm familiar with the product and would be using it to run Roon core. I'd also like to experiment with HQPlayer, but I don't really have a feel for what this brings to the table, and whether the benefits are worth it given the rest of my syst... | |
| Speaker size and soundstage If you have the space to pull the speakers out from the wall at least 3 or 4 ft, you might want to take a look at open baffle speakers such as this from Spatial. | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt amplifiers have definitely "aged" better than just about any other audio component. I still have a Bryston 4B-ST and a Krell KAV-250a that both sound pretty good. Neither were particularly high-end in their day, but compared to modern amps at thei... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling The last of the five Ohno Continuous Casting patents was issued in 1991, so these patents are all expired and anyone can make this product without license. I don't know whether there are trademarks on the name though, which could survive well past... | |
| Old digital that still kicks butt After a 10+ year hiatus from 2-channel audio (I was focused on home theater), I decided about nine years ago to set up a system in my home office. I had a Levinson No 39 CD player that I had purchased in the late 90s. The drawer was pretty flakey,... | |
| How to find the min and max bending radius of a cable. There are a lot of factors that determine this other than outside diameter. Contact the vendors. | |
| Seeking advice on power conditioners/regenerators My power is a bit noisy because I have a solar system and the invertor doesn't generate the cleanest power. I found that my PS Audio regenerator helped a lot to reduce noise and resulted in a blacker background, better low level detail, and slight... | |
| Capacitor Here's a link to a guy that did extensive listening tests for crossover caps. http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.htmlI've found the copper foil in oil caps from companies such as dueland, Jupiter and miflex sound the best, but these can get qui... | |
| The Intellectual People Podcast - Galen Gareis (Former Belden Wire Designer) I mentioned this in the thread about high-end XLR cables, but thought I would post here in case others are interested in the Iconoclast cables. After listening to the podcast mentioned in the OP, I spent some time researching these. I've been relu... | |
| Gaia denafrips DDC, use with a chord tr2 dac? I'm one of those that is using the Gaia with my Denafrips DAC. I started using it with the Terminator, then upgraded to the Terminator Plus. In my system, the Gaia made a significant improvement, but this also involved switching from USB to i2S co... | |
| What does clipping sound like? If you are hearing distortion when the "music swells" and you are not playing at high volume, it could be that you are over-driving some other part of your audio chain. For example, if you have a DAC with a high maximum output level that is feedin... | |
| XLR cables, worth buying higher end? I've generally shied away from using expensive cables in my systems because I've felt I could get more improvement by upgrading components. The most expensive cable I've owned was a pair of MIT MH-770 Reference Shotgun biwire speaker cables, but I... | |
| Clocker value on a network player? Theoretically, an asynchronous USB connection should eliminate any sonic effects from the upstream components because you are just sending digital data and the DAC is in complete control. In reality, it usually doesn't work out this way. It appear... | |
| Clocker value on a network player? Synchronous simply means that the audio data is sent to the DAC at the same rate that it is played (e.g. at 44,100 samples per second in the case of standard Redbook CDs). The DAC has no control over the rate at which the data is sent. Asynchronou... | |
| Clocker value on a network player? With the exception of USB and Ethernet, all other commonly used digital audio interfaces (spdif, toslink, AES3, i2s) are synchronous. This means that the source (the network player in your case) controls the clock. Some DACs will buffer and reclo... |