kijanki
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| 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... | |
| Replace Silver interconnect cable , please advice Something else is wrong. Your Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II has 97% of silver and 3% of copper. I use Acoustic Zen Absolute that has only 1% of copper and have plenty of bass and amazing soundstage. Check cables with ohmmeter as Al advised. | |
| How do I connect Benchmark DAC You need 75ohm digital coax RCA-to-BNC cable like this:www.amazonThis cable should be either very short (< 1ft) or at least 1.5m (there are technical reasons for that). Select coax switch position on the front panel of DAC1.Benchmark DAC1 has t... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Connecting and cables You need 75ohm digital coax RCA-to-BNC cable like this:http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Wholesale-75ohm-RG59U-Coaxial/dp/B000I94HTI/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1382544679&sr=8-10&keywords=75+ohm+coax+cable+rca+bncThis cable should be either ver... | |
| What is my next step? If you think about getting DAC be sure that it accepts Dolby since Panasonics output only Dolby (no menu choice PCM-Dolby). | |
| Maxell or TDK? Bias is HF signal above audio band (usually 50-100kHz) used to reduce distortions of the tape. Too much bias on the other hand causes drop in high frequency response. High frequency content in music also plays role of a bias and by controlling tot... |