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| What does capacitor endurance mean? This rating is at 105degC. Assuming your capacitor runs at slightly elevated temperature of 45degC it will last over 50 years (since life of capacitor doubles for every 10deg C temperature drop). At this time electrolyte will simply dry out causin... | |
| If you were setting up a music server today ... As I said before increasing amount of RAM or caching music to RAM is useless with Wi-Fi. It is because computer doesn't transfer music at all, but instead transfers data compressed in packets. Data does not have timing. Timing is recreated on the ... | |
| If you were setting up a music server today ... Wireless has many advantages. It keeps noisy computer electrically isolated and physically far from audio system. It also makes other factors like type of computer or playback program irrelevant. Instead of spending money on fast computers, a lot ... | |
| Basic Foobar Question Why to use Foobar? You send data to your AE in packets. Data has no timing (recreated by AE). Nothing on your computer side make difference (unless program does data processing - like upsampling).Standard AE has decent digital output (258ps jitter... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? I depends on implementation. Good SMPS will be superior to linear power supply. It will be quieter plus line and load regulated. Yes they are smaller and more effective but it is not the reason Jeff Rowland uses them in Capri Preamp. Linear power ... | |
| 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... |