kijanki
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| The title is:"There's No Such Thing As Digital..." Mapman, Your DAC is not only isolated from computer noise but also from all other nonsense like playback program, file format, computer speed, type of hard disk, amount of RAM etc.The only thing you could do is to insert reclocker before DAC. | |
| Power supply caps Don't forget to unplug and make sure capacitors are completely discharged before touching them. | |
| DIY Speaker wire Unfairlane, Tube amps present higher output impedance being power source vs voltage source that SS amps are. I was just trying to show that cable thickness is pretty much irrelevant because woofer choke has 5x higher resistance (not to mention imp... | |
| Tough decision, samsung Samsung PN65F8500 or If you plan to connect it to 2-channel DAC Panasonic outputs only DOLBY and it won't work. | |
| Power supply caps I replaced power supply caps in Cambridge Audio A3i amp a while ago. Theoretically it should not make any difference since amp was only few years old (unless Canadian dealer sold me very old amp in new box) but it had pronounced effect on the bass... | |
| Power supply to Amplifier Rlwainwright, you're right - it won't do a thing when lightning hit is direct (1 foot wide plasma) but it will help when it hits transformer, street light, ground near your home etc. The best is always to unplug and I do it during thunderstorms or... | |
| The title is:"There's No Such Thing As Digital..." You probably think about oversampling and that is different. Pretty much every CDP contains PLL. It can be used straight just to suppress jitter providing stable clock (by means of averaging) or can be used to create oversampling. Such oversamplin... | |
| The title is:"There's No Such Thing As Digital..." That is interesting, given that many DACs don't have an internal clock, except maybe for the Async USB interface master clocksSteve, you're missing all network DACs including Ethernet, Firewire, Wireless etc. You also forgot about asynchronous rec... | |
| The title is:"There's No Such Thing As Digital..." Can our ears really detect say 400 pico seconds of jitter? If not then even a basic CDP is acceptable.We can detect perhaps as much as 50ps of jitter while basic CDP can go as high as few nanoseconds. The reason why jitter is so audible, in spite ... | |
| Power supply to Amplifier I use Furman Elite PFi 20 conditioner. It has very tight non-sacrificial over/under voltage protection with circuit breaker. It provides separate filtered outputs for power amps, preamps and video. I don't experience any loss of dynamics perhaps b... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Ivan, I would like to disagree with you on the subject of switching power supplies. Every power supply is "switching" if you think about it. Linear power supply takes energy from the mains in narrow current spikes. Width of these spikes is proport... | |
| Do expensive cables/wires REALLY make a difference Person could say "I cannot hear the difference in sound while using different cables but perhaps others can" instead of saying in denial "I cannot hear the difference, therefore it has to be snake oil and anybody who claims to hear it is wrong".Ta... | |
| Two-channel is inferior to multi-channel, no? Kr4, many people are in similar situation. It is great if you can spend more money to listen to few multichannel recordings but when most of your recordings are not multichannel then perhaps it is better to invest in better 2 channel system, unles... | |
| Accustic Arts Power 1 - operates in Class A? Csontos, I don't know. Things I've read apply to bipolars only. In my opinion it should also apply to Mosfets but design might be completely different possibly equalizing gain. Assuming that overbiasing of Mosfets might reduce distortions the ques... | |
| Accustic Arts Power 1 - operates in Class A? On one hand crossover distortions are reduced at slightly higher level when amp stays longer in A class biasing (higher bias) but at the same time gm doubling distortion at higher levels are increased. Measurements made by Douglas Self, Bob Cordel... |