kijanki
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| Why do digital cables sound different? Mapman, I couldn't hear any difference between CDP (coax) and Airport Express (Toslink). I've never tried different brands but compared very short (<1') and 2m long generic coax (self made) and couldn't hear any difference.Now my CDP is a cheap... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Some people, convinced that digital cables cannot make any difference, claim that people who can have to be under influence of placebo effect. They don't realize that their strong conviction makes them unable to hear the difference because of nega... | |
| What is Musicality? If you read the original post, he wants to know what makes a system good!OP stated that: "Appreciating good music is not only a matter of how good your equipment is. It is a measure of how musical a person you are." He was not asking about good eq... | |
| Asynchronous USB DAC and USB cable quality As I understand it, asynchronous USB uses internal DAC's clock for the D/A converter. This clock is independent (asynchronous) to USB data rate. For that reason data has to be buffered. DAC has to request different number of samples each frame to ... | |
| Best HD for music storage/backup. Mesch, I use Firewire since it is native to Mac, places lower load on main processor and has nice daisy chaining, but for compatibility reason USB might be better. I have three identical drives (two backups). One backup in storage at home and one ... | |
| Best HD for music storage/backup. Carbon Copy Cloner (free) with 1TB Fantom GF1000T Firewire drive. | |
| How to improve power supply? Use toroidal transformers - very small magnetic field outside. | |
| Squeezebox+Power Supply+Reclocker or??? Audiojedi, You're not, if you like your DAC. Jitter is the only thing that affects the sound on digital side (assuming unprocessed, bit perfect files). Empirical Audio also makes reclocker but I don't know how it compares with W4S. I would use coa... | |
| Sound quality of shared iTunes library wireless Why would Apple TV at 48 kHZ be inferior to Airport Express at what seems to be a slightly lower rate?Because there is some loss of quality on 44.1kHz to 48kHz conversion.Karavite, If data is identical then the only thing that change sound is timi... | |
| Voice and instrument image bunched in the middle?? Pc123v, My 938s are standing on standard factory brass pins. Image depends on the record played. On some CDs it is narrow but on the others image goes outside of speakers. On average it stretches almost tweeter to tweeter. They are pointing at cen... | |
| Voice and instrument image bunched in the middle?? Pcv123v, Hyperions 938 deliver excellent imaging in my room. My room is roughy 16'x 24'with speakers on long wall. Perhaps you need to defeat reflections in you room. Try placing something fuzzy on side walls. Use mirror on the wall to pinpoint ex... | |
| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE Many people still think that power supply has to be linear and heavy to deliver great performance. In reality many designers use large heavy transformers because of this belief - that creates better sales (If it is heavy it has to be good). Look a... | |
| Acou Zen vs Anaysis Plus vs Cardas Clear Sp. Cable I replaced inexpensive AQ Indigo with AZ Satori (Shotgun) with great results. Satori keeps bass very tight but adds a little to lower midrange that sounded thin with Indigo and class D amp.It added "body" to instruments and "chestiness" to male vo... | |
| Whole Home Streaming It looks like you set your mind on wireless. I had problem using 2.4GHz WiFi since it has only 3 non-overlapping channels. My microwave was interfering with one and neighbors with two others. There are few possible choices:- brute force, use power... | |
| How to improve power supply? Ptss, how do you know it is inadequate? Most likely it is linear power supply followed by voltage regulators. AFAIK nothing changed in design or available regulators since mid 90s. There are few areas that might bring improvement. It might be poss... |