kijanki
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| Computer for Squeesbox Touch I absolutely agree with Sufentanil. Once you have network, especially wireless, your music is sent as data without timing and the timing is recreated on the other side of the bridge. Nothing on computer side makes any difference (as long as it is ... | |
| Speakers and a fireplace heat? If the sides of the speakers are warm from fireplace or just sun radiation it is not optimal. My concern would be with ferrofluid widely used in tweeters but sometimes even in midrange (my speakers have 6 1/2 midrange drivers using ferrofluid as a... | |
| Ground Loop Hum with balanced XLR cables only Perhaps you have ground loop. RCA cables' shields are normally grounded on one side only, while XLR cables shields are grounded on both sides. It makes for better, shorter return of the noise induced currents but creates a lot of ground loop probl... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Two wires, positive and negative, together reduce electromagnetic and capacitive noise pickup. They also reduce noise radiated from these wires. It is because noise is being picked-up (or radiated) by both wires that are at opposite polarities thu... | |
| What do I need to set up digital music server? Winggo - Have you read my post? | |
| I just installed new furnance and AC My furnace is in the basement but still noise of the blower and moving air comes thru. Shutting it down for the time of listening session, as Yogiboy suggested, can be done but not when temperature outside is very low or it will get chilly real fa... | |
| Mono amps and different length speaker cables No damage. If you don't hear it leave it. As for the "another matter" - if you don't hear it leave it and don't worry. | |
| What do I need to set up digital music server? My system consists of MacMini with external 1TB drive, Apple Express (Wi-Fi receiver on my network), Benchmark DAC1 (D/A converter with volume control) and power amp. I rip CDs, using free "MAX", to ALAC format (Apple Lossless Audio Codec). I use ... | |
| Mono amps and different length speaker cables If you believe that cable affects the sound then longer cable should affect it more, but your cable can be so transparent that 50% difference won't be audible. I still would not do it for the reason of resale value that Wolf_garcia mentioned. | |
| A Possible Reason for SACD to be Superior SACD converters, operating as Pulse Width Modulation are difficult to implement in computer servers - increasingly popular. Strong copy protection would not be the reason, since most of people are honest, but combined with initial price of SACD an... | |
| A Possible Reason for SACD to be Superior In spite of different output levels source material could be recorded with the same compression. It is difficult to compare CD to SACD since they are completely different but just looking at the bit rate coming out of both we can judge about quali... | |
| Tone Controls can be so nice. Trying to adjust for room responses would require sophisticated equalizer - it is better to fix the room.Poor systems apply such pronounced and complicated sound equalization curve that every record played on them will require different tone adjus... | |
| Good Optical Coaxial cable under $200 ???? Digital coax is a system thing. Digital transmission is affected only by the jitter, that can be induced either by the noise or transmission line effect (signal reflects on characteristic impedance boundaries). Cable that sounds great in one syste... | |
| Current draw from an MIT Z Stablizer ll Reducing power factor due to phase shift between voltage and current is one thing but don't forget that amps present itself as nonlinear load because of rectifiers. Current is delivered in narrow spikes of high amplitude repeated 120Hz. In frequen... | |
| When does someone need a DAC Bobmclean, Good DAC when used with your existing CDP might give you better sound. On the other hand when you connect DAC to computer you will become independent of transport (hard disks are cheap) with ease of use, being able to find music quickly... |