kijanki
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| Would vinyl even be invented today? vinyl playback offers some unique musical qualities that are unavailable with the digital formatsYou mean noise, pops and clicks? | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? Agree, the difference is very small. Could my love for symmetry come from watching too many episodes of Monk? | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? Imaging and coherence are very important to me. Would you replace just one of the tweeters with the best one you can afford or replace one of the monoblocks with much better one. Should it still bring improvements because "one could produce result... | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on My bad - I was looking only at the cost of electricity. From my electric bill:375 KWH TOTAL@$0.0661/KWH GENERA 375 kWh X 0.06610 $24.79but it comes to $49 with delivery charges, fees and taxes.I made mistake, but it was a small one - 100% :)Still,... | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on Electricity in my area costs about $0.006 per kWh. For 40W it would be $0.0576 daily = $21 per year. My amplifier (total idle power = 10W) that costs me $5/year doesn't even have power switch. No power switch on my Benchmark DAC1 (also 10W) or App... | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? This will influence the damping factor of your amplifier, which will, again in theory influence the ability of your amplifier to have control over your loudspeakers, wihich would be a little diffirent for both loudspeakers.Difference of 1m both wa... | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? Many people will tell you that it won't make any difference. On the other hand if you believe that cables affect sound then most likely this effect will be proportional to the length of the cable. I might not be able to hear the difference but I w... | |
| Recommendations for Arab and Mid-Eastern fusion. Mahwash - Radio KabulAbdel Gadir Salim - Sounds of Sudan (Salim, Mubarak, Gubara)Emil Zrihan - Ashkelon Morroccan Maval (don't miss it - Amazon)Rahim Alhaj with Souhail Kaspar - When the Soul is Settled: Music of IraqRasha - SudaniyatAmina Alaoui ... | |
| Gainclone LM1875 class D chip amps LM1875 is 20W class AB amplifier. | |
| RCA or Optical? Optical does not pick electrical noise or create one (no transmission line effects) but transitions are slow making it more susceptible to system noise, affecting threshold point and creating jitter.Coax has faster transitions making it more immun... | |
| Asynchronous vs Synchronous In synchronous USB D/A converter clock comes from the computer. Usually D/A converter runs from internal clock that is synchronized with incoming USB clock by PLL (Phase Lock Loop) but it is less than perfect. This scheme is used in pretty much ev... | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction Many believe that direction should not matter since we're dealing with AC current (charge flows in both directions). It might be a little bit more complicated than that, since energy is delivered only in one direction by the electromagnetic field ... | |
| Bi-Wire Tuning Jeff, Belden 5000UP is a stranded bare copper cable - the worse to use in my opinion. According to Audioquest thick cables produce skin effect that changes impedance of the cable with frequency. Skin effect starts at gauge 18 (@20kHz). In stranded... | |
| minimizing glare on TV screen Mark, I have 55" Samsung LED with very shinny screen. I don't see a lot of reflections during day because it is facing wall without window while brightness automatically adjusts itself to much higher levels during day (Samsung calls this "ECO"). A... | |
| Does the Transport make a significant difference It can make it better because of better mechanical design. quieter power supply and better output stage, but it can make it worse if output slew rate is high (short transitions) and your coax or DAC is not perfectly matched. It is a system thing. |