kijanki
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| DAC woes - what to do Lightspeed240, Benchmark is very revealing often showing problems in the system. It is also very clean - in fact so clean that some people call it very accurate but sterile. It is due to jitter (noise) suppression. It upsamples to equivalent of mi... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Lightspeed240, I cannot comment on the other DACc but I have Benchmark DAC1. It has a lot of resolution, nice extension and tight bass but it is not warm or sweet. According to technical director of Benchmark John Siau it was purposely designed no... | |
| External CD/DVD drive for Mac Book Pro Rabbani, check if your XLD has setting of number of retries. I set Max to "do not allow to skip" but I could also set number of retries like for instance 200. Set it to the highest number. Some programs allow to verify overall checksum for CD with... | |
| External CD/DVD drive for Mac Book Pro I'm not sure I understand your question. AFAIK every drive has error correction since it is part of Reed-Solomon coding. Up to 4mm scratches along the track it autocorrects, between 4mm it interpolates and above 8mm skips. All this applies to musi... | |
| Whole House Surge Absorber. EP-2050 has great reviews but it is a little on expensive side. | |
| Ethernet Cables Possible. I'm open minded, adventurous and enjoy experimenting Great attitude - hobby should be fun. | |
| Does AC Power Cord to Linear Power Supply matter? In addition to high frequency noise produced by LPS there is 120Hz component very difficult to filter out. In addition LPS in amplifiers is almost always unregulated (line and load). Recently quiet switchers operating at much higher frequencies ap... | |
| Ethernet Cables Dragon1952 - nobody says it is impossible. We're just trying to be intelligent about it and find the reason.Believing any nonsense can bring such things like better highs upstairs or better bass in the basement. I've read serious gear review that ... | |
| Does AC Power Cord to Linear Power Supply matter? Linear Power Supply is a noisy switcher that operates at 120Hz. Current from mains is drawn in narrow spikes of high amplitude. Cable should have enough frequency response to handle it and to shield it from radiating out. | |
| Ethernet Cables Joecasey, perhaps shielding on you AQ is better. How about digital cables? Transmission over S/Pdif is sensitive to jitter while Ethernet is not. | |
| Ethernet Cables Joecasey, you're right - one computer CAN sound better than the other but it is not related to speed (or amount of RAM) but to amount of electrical noise produced. Whether computer can or cannot keep up does not change the sound because timing is ... | |
| Ethernet Cables New computer with faster CPU and memory can do more harm than good with Ethernet connection, often producing more electrical noise. Speed doesn't make any difference as long as it is adequate (pretty much any computer) since timing is irrelevant w... | |
| Ethernet Cables Ethernet cable might affect sound indirectly by capacitive or electromagnetic coupling of electrical noise to audio system. Other than that Ethernet cable transfers data and not the music. Data is transferred in packets (not in the real time). Tim... | |
| Everything Looks Like Shot on Video It depends on TV - on my Samsung it is in the Menu -> Picture -> Picture Options -> Motion Plus -> CustomTwo sliders 0-10 allow for Blur reduction and Judder reduction. I have them at 5, 5 but perhaps lowering judder reduction to 4 or ... | |
| Speaker Improvement Advance Design Better Upgrade Hyperion Sound uses membranes without suspension (spiderweb) - reducing moving mass and improving linearity. Midrange driver (6.5") uses ferrofluid for suspension. |