kijanki
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| Amazing sound quality inexpensive earbuds I just hope you guys won't kill me if I'm wrong. | |
| Benchmark or Antelope? Lindisfarne, I don't know about Antelope but I use Benchmark DAC1 with Airport Express + Mac Mini + Itunes (ALAC). Benchmark DAC1 offers jitter suppression and is very clean/transparent with tight bass. It was designed to be neutral and not warm. ... | |
| Amazing sound quality inexpensive earbuds Tgrisham, Thanks for the trust. The only drawback I found initially was difficulty to slide them into ear canal, since tips are very soft. Now it is much better since a little of skin oil (or wax) got on the rubbery part. I also use this earbud wi... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier People believe that the main reason for switching power supplies is efficiency and size while they produce noise (tradeoff). In reality switching power supplies executed properly allow to reduce noise. For that reason Rowlands Capri preamp is powe... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier Mapman - this question should be addressed to more experienced Audiogoners who have chance to compare them at shows. I can only comment on technical merits.Minorl1 - no tricks, just different technology. Transformer operating at high frequency can... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier The bandwidth limit causes phase shift in audible range possibly affecting harmonics summing. My amp, for instance, has -3dB at 65kHz causing 20deg phase shift at 20kHz. Mentioned Rowland model 725 has bandwidth of 350kHz. | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier Some people argue that class D, as good as it is for the money, cannot really compete with best traditional SS amp. I can see that, especially with still limited bandwidth, but most of the weight is in the power supply that can be definitely class... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier New 650W Rowland model 725 monoblocks are only 54lbs (including fancy heavy case milled of single billet of aluminum). The key is power supply. Rowland uses quiet switching power supply (SMPS) that provides line and load regulation while tradition... | |
| What causes some transports to oscillate? First track is closest to center (AFAIK) and since CD has constant linear speed, angular speed at first track has to be the highest. I experienced CD vibration few times but it disappeared after I opened and closed tray again. It might have someth... | |
| Can You Get 1,000 WPC Out Of Regular Wall Socket? Mapman, thank you for kind word. 1000ASP is 58% louder than 200ASC since power ratio is k=5 whilePerceived loudness = k^(1/3.5) = 1.58It doesn't look that much of a difference but the key is in max current delivery. It is 40A for 1000ASP and only ... | |
| Can You Get 1,000 WPC Out Of Regular Wall Socket? Al, I found this long time ago searching for power test of 200ASC (Icepower module used in my Rowland 102):"I operated a sample 1000ASP on the bench delivering 350W average of pink noise into a 4 ohm load for over one hour with no additional heats... | |
| balanced preamp Atmasphere, It seems that fully balanced configuration offers benefit of even harmonics reduction at some expense of CMRR. I can understand that it might be too expensive to manufacture to stay competitive at the lower/medium price range but all y... | |
| balanced preamp Atmasphere, We were talking about cost of fully balanced gear. I expressed opinion that in order to get fully balanced amp or preamp you pay more and sacrifice CMRR (since you cannot keep gains equal to 0.005%) - whole thing to remove even harmoni... | |
| balanced preamp Atmasphere, 85dB is decent especially when you take into account effect of twisted pair rejection, in addition to shielding, in XLR cable. In order to match 85dB rejection in fully balanced amplifier gains would have to be matched to 0.005% - not ... | |
| CD/DVD Player Mystery Dirty laser? Dirty laser might be OK for most CDs but too weak for some that have lower reflection. If cleaning the laser doesn't help you can rip this CD and make CD-R. |