kijanki
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| 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... | |
| XLR cables that sound bold, natural, real..silver? I use Acoustic Zen Absolute 0.5m XLR. Fast and clean/refined but natural. A little bit overkill for my system but I got good deal ($650 used). Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II supposed to be good as well and runs at about $400 used. | |
| I need a new TV Panasonics output Dolby. For that you need video processor or special adapter. It is not expensive but you you need to pick one that works with Dolby. My Samsung has Dolby/PCM menu switch allowing to use it with any DAC. | |
| New tv? Jjrenman, Great link, thank you. It would appear that plasma vs LCD is a little bit like inkjet vs. laser. Laser cannot create shades of gray (or color) so it uses halftoning - pretty much the same as one used in publishing (newspapers magazines e... | |
| New tv? There is only limited number of frames/s in TV transmission. Many stations like FOX or ABC broadcast everything in 60fps 720p. When 24fps movie is broadcasted they just repeat frames. Digital TV set adds (interpolates) additional frames, so if you... | |
| New tv? Bob, That is hard to understand - why to stop making something that was the best. On the other hand quality of all TVs improved so much that any choice would be good for me. Sharpness is so high, without any artifacts, that I can see tiny scratche... | |
| New tv? Jjrenman, when I set mine to highest rate (240Hz) movies look like video made by home camera (soap opera effect). There is a reason why movie makers still record exactly 24 frames/s while technology allows for much more.http://www.gq.com/blogs/the... | |
| itunes/ext hard drive integration Ernie, I keep separate disk (also 1TB) and 2 backups. My Time Machine is strictly for the MacMini but I could instruct it to backup also the other drive. I decided it might be not optimal since I prefer to have backup disk unpowered and disconnect... | |
| New tv? AFAIK Kuro doesn't exist since 2010. Some of technologies were sold to Panasonic and used in Viera line.I can easily recognize Plasma in large stores because of its yellowish white. The fact that plasma, in the review, scored higher for contrast o... | |
| New tv? I have 55" Samsung LED with edge lighting. It is just excellent. Black levels are as good as the best Plasmas while sharpness is stunning. Brightness and contrast stay during day in bright room (adjusts itself). The only problem is that Samsung co... | |
| do i still need a pre-amp The signal being output by the TV will be Dolby Digital stereo or surround depending on the broadcastIt depends on TV. Panasonics output Dolby with digital and PCM with NTSC automatically. Since NTSC is gone you would be stuck with Dolby. There is... |