kijanki
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| 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... | |
| Does Cu oxidation away from contact points matter? Copper oxide "patina" is a very thin (about 0.005") and protects itself from further oxidation. Some current would go thru this layer (that is semiconductor) but majority of the current would go thru the core. I wouldn't worry about it at all. Str... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Bondmanp, I have second hard drive backup just in case of controller failure (or my mistake) during backup process, that can damage both drives - source and backup. I also keep second drive at my work (fire, theft). For these reasons I don't belie... | |
| regarding shielding RCA cables have usually shield connected to ground on one side and it is enough to drain induced currents. Grounding shields on both sides (like in XLR cables) would provide better return but could also create ground loops. | |
| What are the differences in Tweeter materials? Steve Mowry says in the article "The Whole Truth About Beryllium Diaphragms: -"For a given geometry the first bending (break-up) frequency is proportional to the material Speed Of Sound, where the speed of sound within a material is defined as the... | |
| Best "Giant Killer" Value Cables For... For class D amp you might look at cables that have a little fuller lower midrange such as Acoustic Zen Satori that I use with class D Rowland 102 amp. They are about $350 used for standard non-biwire 8 feet pair. |