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| What kind of power cord comes with expensive gear From Jeff Rowland website:"Various accessories such as power cords, interconnects, power conditioners, and even more so major components such as speakers, as well as analog or digital front ends, often have a significant effect on the sound of a m... | |
| Tube amps and loads. Corazon, I'm no expert on tube amps, but AFAIK you should not operate it without load. The fact that you don't apply signal doesn't change anything since practically anything can cause output transient that, with open transformer, will generate hi... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you considering tossing your CD collection to garbage? You might consider giving them to your local library. | |
| How is/was your Satori speaker cable? I can tell you the difference between my old Audioquest Indigo (biwired) and current Satori Shotgun. Satori is faster, cleaner and silkier. It also gives fuller lower midrange (male voices, cello etc) - perfect for my class D amp. Indigo sounded t... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Thanks Steve. It looks interesting. | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Steve, who makes reclocker with this new TI chip? | |
| On High Current Amps and Regenerators I use Furman Elite 20PFi with class D Rowland 102 amp. According to Furman's technical data it can provide 55 amperes peak current. My amp is connected to high current outputs. I don't hear any loss of dynamics or other negative effects but my amp... | |
| Internal audio cards, are they really good? Jorsan, electrical noise affect digital transmission creating jitter. Jitter converts in D/A chip to audio noise. This conversion is a form of modulation. Because of it amplitude of this noise will be proportional to amplitude of the sound and wil... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Thanks, Steve. I'm committed to wireless network but will wait few years to make big step with new DAC (and possibly reclocker). It looks like D/A chips improved but also reclocking chips and analog electronics are making big steps. | |
| NAS + Ethernet DAC = lossless transport ? Chryos, Your original question was if network DAC would be FUNDAMENTALLY better. It has chance to be little better but jitter, as Steve said, would be predominant factor. Interpolation might be non-audible if infrequent but jitter converts to nois... | |
| NAS + Ethernet DAC = lossless transport ? Your data is stored on hard drive and will be always played identical while CDP has to approximate data in certain cases. When you read data CD in your computer and get checksum error computer will read same sector multiple times. You can do the s... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Steve, Isn't Metrum Octave a NOS DAC? I would need reclocker for best results with AE. Many people go for NOS claiming ill effects of digital filtering (pulse response) but reclocker most likely involves digital filtering defeating purpose of NOS.... | |
| Can you bridge any 2 channel amp? Csontos,As Al stated dual mono might be "better able to tolerate increased current" but impedance issues are still there. One Audiogoner drives, with great results, 1 ohm planar speakers (Apogee Acoustics Scintilla) with 2ohm minimum rated class D... | |
| Can you bridge any 2 channel amp? B_limo, Only single ended amplifier can be bridged. Single ended means that one of terminals is inactive (ground). Some amplifiers have differential outputs and cannot be bridged (being already bridged). Bridging them will work but won't change ou... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Steve, I'm aware of changes you made to DAC1. These changes, as I remember eliminated jitter reduction ability of DAC1. Effects of jitter are not even detectable buried deep in -130dB noise floor according to many different reviews. PLL on DAC1 is... |