kijanki
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| 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... | |
| 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... |