kijanki
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| MP3 vs Hi Res On average AAC compression gives better results than MP3. As Steve said 256k is very high quality, but I use 128k per channel (is it the same as 256k?) on my phone and it sounds perfect to me with external DAC/Amp and AKG headphones. | |
| Do USB micro-B cables matter for External HD's? Computer is reading HD data. Because timing is not involved it cannot affect sound quality. Since any cable emits ambient electrical noise good shielding is always desired. I wouldn't even worry about that unless your cable is in close proximity t... | |
| Ethernet over power electrical connection signals The main problem with digital transmission is time jitter. Ethernet transmission is jitter free since it does not contain time (transmitted is data) but increased ambient electrical noise might induce jitter in recreated clock, DAC or cable. It is... | |
| Apple TV sound quality as a transport Magfan, your AE might be defective. According to Stereophile review it produces respectable 258ps word clock jitter on digital output. Analog output is much worse. It receives compressed (ALAC) data and recreates clock. With my Benchmark DAC1 it s... | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection Zd542, you got it right! | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection Al, I did not realize it is a tube amp - thank you for clarifying it. I absolutely agree that it is very dangerous to play any games. Cptaz, Follow Al's advise and don't do it! | |
| Weird question re: balanced connection You have to be careful since you will get bridged outputs if amplifiers have single ended (ground referenced) output. Bridged outputs will get you 4x power (while two power supplies are designed only for 2x more power total) plus doubled output im... | |
| HDCD Decoding ? HDCD is recorded with least significant bit switching dynamics of remaining 15 bits. Standard CDP will read only 15 bits with noise on bit 16 plus weird dynamics - am I missing something? | |
| Transport to DAC Connection: RCA or XLR? I'm not sure what amp has to do with it. OP asks about digital cable between transport and DAC. XLR cable should be better being differential with much higher levels (2.7Vp-p vs 0.5Vp-p) but it is always system dependent. You need XLR 110ohm cable... | |
| Difference in quality in products made in China? Csontos, you're talking about Chinese companies. What about US or UK companies manufacturing in China (including Apple)? | |
| Difference in quality in products made in China? Samick makes Greg Bennett (Guitar Player Editor Pick Award), Gibson, Epiphone, Hohner, Wasburn, Fender. Gretsch 5120 is also Korean (Peerless). Samick Gibsons are made in Cilesungi, near Bogor, Indonesia.Samick has factories in Korea, Indonesia, C... | |
| Difference in quality in products made in China? Management is more important than origin. Kentucky plant that makes Toyota Avalon is one of the best in the world (my 17 year old Avalon works like Swiss watch). I also have Mac Mini and Macbook Air, both made in China, with no problems whatsoever... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Rhanson739, I was talking about interface chip on computer motherboard. People often believe that Raid mirroring gives them 100% protection while in reality they are subject to computer hardware failure, viruses, overvoltage, operating system soft... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Rhanson739, redundancy won't help in case of controller failure that can make both disks unusable not to mention Windows itself (known to go crazy) even without viruses. That's in addition to overvoltage, lightning, fire theft etc. Another advanta... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... I bring drive home every time I feel it needs to be updated. I alternate drives remembering which drive was updated last. I decide to update when I add more than 10 CDs. In worst case when I loose original drive and one backup I can be 20 CDs behi... |