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Voltage conversion in Wyred4 Sound DAC According to Benchmark Technical Director John Siau Benchmark was designed purposely not to sound warm but neutral instead. Warm sound works wonderful with voices or guitar but not so great with instruments that have more complex harmonic structur... | |
Class A vs. AB vs. D... can you hear a difference? Linear power supply draws current from the mains in narrow spikes of high amplitude. These spikes contain a lot of harmonics that might induce noise in any LC circuit inside as well as coupling to other cables. I called it a primitive switcher bec... | |
Class A vs. AB vs. D... can you hear a difference? Ngjockey, you have to realize that linear power supply is in reality a primitive switcher that pollutes AC even more. Jeff Rowland designed his latest class AB power amps with SMPS to reduce noise. For the same reason he designed his Capri preamp ... | |
Class A vs. AB vs. D... can you hear a difference? It depends greatly on amplifiers used. To me class D sounded smoother and less splashy (darker) than class AB. Midrange was better but lower midrange was leaner (had to change speaker cables). Lows were tighter while highs initially sounded less e... | |
Hyperion 938 speakers I have mine almost directly pointed at me. That way stage is a little narrower but sweet point is wider. You need to find out how it works in your room and what is important to you. | |
Lewinskih01... Zoot 45 I don't know asynch USB, you're probably right. Firewire HD has advantage of not involving main processor in transfers (has its own processor). | |
Voltage conversion in Wyred4 Sound DAC Not only that Benchmark DAC2 has switching power supply but also has many of them inside. It uses main +12V switcher and then DC/DC converters to create +/-18V. I don't know of linear power supply that can operate from 88 to 264 VAC without any sw... | |
Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server I don't think so - it is just converter. In addition to eliminating jitter coming from computer it also eliminates jitter created by the cable. Reclocker should be placed in very close proximity to DAC and connected to DAC by very short (<1ft) ... | |
Lewinskih01... Zoot 45 Data on hard disk has no timing. It goes thru all sorts of buffers to audio card or converter where timing is recreated. Different type of Hard Drive might have influence possibly reducing overall system noise (if lower power) but it won't affect ... | |
Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Tboooe, No, my Benchmark DAC1 has built in reclocker (asynchronous rate converter). External reclocker, on the other hand, allows to use any DAC. Jitter shows as noise proportional to level of the sound and undetectable without music. There is not... | |
Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server All things mentioned so far improve sound by reduction of the jitter. you could get reclocker instead and forget about special computers, playback programs, footers, platforms etc.[url]https://wyred4sound.com/products/digital-converters/remedy-rec... | |
Lewinskih01... Zoot 45 Type of interface should not matter since HD stores data and not the music stream. | |
Ripping CD's - Bypassing Computer CD Player Quality of computer CDP has nothing to do with it. Get good ripping software like MAX or XLD for Mac or EAC for Windows. Ripping program reads CD as data instructing CDP to re-read given sector multiple times until proper checksum is obtained. MAX... | |
Voltage conversion in Wyred4 Sound DAC Gnanasekhar, electronics equipped with switching power supply will often operate over whole voltage range. One example might be Benchmark DAC2 that operates 88-264V 50/60Hz.I have older version - DAC1 but it is not universal (linear power supply). | |
Size of Midrange Drivers Johnyb53, unfortunately Hyperion went bankrupt since design is only small part of success. Now, I feel uneasy about spare parts or service. |