kijanki
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| Reading Spec Sheets Judging by power doubling, new Jeff Rowland Model 625 that outputs 300W@8ohms and 550W@4ohms is weak amplifier and that would be a mistake. Judging by weight, as Jmcgrogan2 suggested, is perhaps better, but there are exceptions. Amplifiers that ha... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? I would guess that it doesn't make much difference. Resistance of binding post is most like in order of milliohms* while speaker is in ohms. For the Damping Factor, speaker impedance is mostly resistive and in addition there are inductors in serie... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Al, absolutely right, it takes too long. On the other hand, why to even make on line backup when it is already done in NSA. Just ask them for the copy. | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Doggiehowser, Right now about 650GB in ALAC. I stated time I spend connecting, checking disk, starting program and disconnecting. I don't count time when computer is doing backup (few hours) while I'm watching TV. Sometimes I start backup when I g... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Timrhu, After backup is done program performs automatic verification. I also check before next backup. At each time I have main HD and two unpowered backups in storage. Whole operation is about 15 min of my time every 6 months.Server based playbac... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Jult52, For me net result is flawless system, 15 min work every 6 months (or less often if I ripped <20 CDs) and no loss of quality over time. It didn't cost me time to rip CDs since I mostly ripped what I listened to (listening and ripping at ... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Jult52, Not big problem if it is done right. Raid is not the best way of doing it because in case of controller failure all files can be toast. I keep one backup at home and one at work. It isn't constant backing up as you suggested, because there... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence I use MacMini with external 1TB Firewire drive transmitting music over Wi-Fi across the room. Music is stored in ALAC and played by Itunes. Computer noise, computer speed, amount of memory, playback program etc don't make any difference in this se... | |
| Best Airplay Device Define "better". If you're talking about jitter than your DAC has asynchronous sample rate converter meaning suppresses jitter. If it is still not enough (jitter shows as a noise - lack of clarity) than perhaps additional reclocker would be better... | |
| Do I need a DAC? Format cannot make any difference as long as it is lossless (bit perfect). Information is transferred as data in packets over Wi-Fi without timing. Timing (clock) is recreated in AE. If you ever decide to use lossless then perhaps the best format ... | |
| Do I need a DAC? Oscarrr, DAC will give you cleaner sound. You might not care but noise embedded in music will screw up other things like for instance imaging. Noise on analog side is caused by the jitter on digital side and is detectable by lack of clarity only (... | |
| Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? All three AES/EBU, coax S/PDIF and optical S/PDIF in home systems are different forms of S/PDIF protocol. One of the main differences between protocols is that AES/EBU does not contain digital copy protection while S/PDIF does. What comes to balan... | |
| Neutral or warm? Which do you prefer? Technical director of Benchmark Media Systems Inc. said this about DAC1:"We designed the DAC1 for maximum transparency. If you want to add warmth, you can't add it with a DAC1. Personally, I do not like what warm sounding equipment does to the sou... | |
| Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? I'd like to expand a little on Al's excellent (as usual) post. Each cable has characteristic impedance. This impedance depends on cable geometry and dielectric and can be simplified as SQRT(L/C). When this impedance is different from the gear impe... | |
| Two-channel is inferior to multi-channel, no? Kr4, For many people it is a choice between good two channel system and less than average multichannel for the same cost.How much better speakers I can afford when buying only two. How much better amp I can afford when it is two channel only etc. ... |