kijanki
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| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Yes, I use Benchmark DAC1 with AE and sound is incredibly clean up to point of being too clean. You might not like sound of the Benchmark DAC1 or any upsampling/oversampling DACs but cannot deny its jitter suppressing ability. Measurements taken b... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? This is not accurate. DAC will improve AE since it has relatively low jitter on digital output but horrible jitter artifacts on analog out. You can find measurements here:http://www.stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505appleAny jitter suppression,... | |
| Pre-amp for Rowland Model 102 Guido, PC1 converts 110VAC to 175VDC and 240VAC to 385VDC according to Jeff Rowland info:http://jeffrowlandgroup.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=191Most of the gear won't work with DC voltage at all because of transformer. | |
| Pre-amp for Rowland Model 102 Guido, I don't have Capri. Furman made it cleaner. They claim large peak current available (large capacitor behind large inductor) but it did not improve dynamics (other than removing bass resonances). Furman made big difference on my previous dig... | |
| Pre-amp for Rowland Model 102 I'm using Power Factor correcting conditioner Furman Elite 20 PFi with Rowland 102. It does not affect dynamics but makes everything cleaner. The strange thing is that bass became cleaner - more even and musical. Very good non-sacrificial over/und... | |
| Pre-amp for Rowland Model 102 http://www.audioenz.co.nz/2007/rowland_capri-102.shtml | |
| One reason why audio is suffering: Connectivity Jult52, I bought new TV. I wanted Panasonic Plasma but found out that it outputs (TOSLINK) only DOLBY that my 2 channel DAC (Benchmark DAC1) doesn't decode. DAC is expecting standard 2 channel S/Pdif. There is no menu item for the output format se... | |
| Do expensive cables/wires REALLY make a difference Cwby8115, Don't forget to burn your new cables. For best results: 30min in 325deg oven. Use gloves. | |
| CAPS 3.0 Zuma vs Mac Mini Some things like type of Ethernet cable might change overall ambient noise and the same goes for the computer. On the other hand faster computer can make it much worse generating more noise at higher frequencies. Amount of RAM makes no difference ... | |
| Integrated amp: jumpers versus cables My brother has NAD that originally had factory jumpers made of "U" shape steel rods. Replacing them with short Audioquest jumpers (basically short IC) opened treble. | |
| Cost of Keeping Components on All the Time? Benchmark DAC1: 10WRowland 102: 10W20W * 730hrs * $0.06/kWhr = $0.876 per month | |
| CAPS 3.0 Zuma vs Mac Mini Sgr, If you transfer files to DAC using Ethernet bridge then nothing that you mentioned makes any difference since they affect only timing while you transfer data (no timing). Some things might reduce overall noise but things like amount of RAM or... | |
| When does Cabling become important in Digital? Septemous, If you send digital data over wireless or network it will be delivered as data without timing and anything on computer side doesn't matter. What matters is timing (clock) recreated on the other side. When you transfer sequence 10101010 ... | |
| Cables that are more enhanced than Acoustic Zen Audiotomb, I replaced neutral sounding Audioquest King Cobra ICs (copper) with AZ Absolute (silver+1%copper). Sound is still very neutral but more refined. There is no brightness but everything sounds cleaner and faster. Instruments have more natu... | |
| How Much Are You Missing From 20khz to 45khz? The less phase shift, the better the imaging.Tonality will also improve since phase shift causes improper summing of harmonics. I'm not sure about speakers but amplifier has at least 45 degree phase shift at -3dB frequency limit. My -3dB@60kHz amp... |