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| jitter handling for bryston bda1 Jwin525, I have Benchmark DAC1 with Airport Express and sound is so clean that some might call it sterile. AE delivers, according to Stereophile review, respectable 258ps word jitter on optical output while DAC1 has huge jitter rejection. I like t... | |
| Impedance in headphones vs. speakers - confused Nadman12 Power delivered to headphones P=U^2/R, therefore in order to keep the same power/loudness, with higher impedance headphones, output voltage has to be also higher. Loudness becomes limited either by gain that is too low (tailored for commo... | |
| Dielectrics and such...?? Al, that's perhaps why some manufacturers use foam Teflon (including my Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs) - not only to lower dielectric constant but to reduce absorption (introducing air). As for driving 1.5nF - I'll take your word, having limited exper... | |
| Dielectrics and such...?? Al, I didn't notice the link you provided. I agree that 22nH per foot would be extremely low and we can take it out of the equation. So what else is there (other than resistance, inductance or dielectric) to consider? | |
| Dielectrics and such...?? Al, Yes part of the noise would be cancelled. Twisting just offers better cancellation. Reduction of inductance might be more important than reduction in resistance since xover inductor in series with the woofer has most likely around 0.08ohm limi... | |
| Dielectrics and such...?? 2chnlben , What is your objective? Dielectric properties of the tape (you could use Teflon tape) are secondary IMHO to fact that you defeat shielding of the cable achieved by twisting. Twisting two wires exposes them equaly to fields (noise) and s... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping Thanks, Al. Your explanation makes perfect sense (as usual). Perhaps even Solid State Drives can really sound better, as Steve N. suspected, for the same reason of electrical noise being converted to jitter. I feel lucky with my setup where comput... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Al, I cannot hear any difference between different sources or cables with my jitter suppressing Benchmark DAC1. According to Benchmark and review measurements it provides very strong jitter reduction but few Audiogoners were able to detect sonic d... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping I cannot hear any difference between ALAC and AIFF but it might be placebo effect since I know that hard disk ALAC or AIFF files have no timing and in reality it takes shorter to decompress than read larger file from hard drive. Data comes in pack... | |
| Hi Res ripping software for Mac ? Antigrunge,It all depends on CD. Regular real time CD player reads only once and when sample is bad (bad checksum) it corrects (Cross Interleaved Reed-Solomon error correction code) or interpolates. It has ability to correct errors smaller than 4m... | |
| Digital Emperor has no clothes "I like the point about SACD or more carefully recorded things sounding better because they were more carefully recorded...hmmm"They could easily find CD and SACD processed from the same 24/192 master tape and play both layers on the same SACD pla... | |
| Digital Emperor has no clothes I'm pretty sure you can find other double blind studies that prove otherwise. Stereophile reviewers found huge difference between SACD and CD playback. Notion that double blind study is flawless since it does not contain placebo effect is false IM... | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 as preamplifier?? Blk25 - that's exactly what I do. Three digital sources (HDTV, DVD, Airport Express) with Benchmark DAC1 connected directly to Rowland 102 (class D) power amp. Sound is outstanding IMHO and the only drawback is lack of remote that also forces me t... | |
| cable burning Thanks Al. I found 1.3MHz frequency on the second page of the article but forgot to look at the picture. I wonder what is inside of this big box in the center. | |
| Hi Res ripping software for Mac ? Mwheelerk, Is it because of rip quality or ease of use? |