kijanki
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| Itunes downloads Coffee1, Why MP3 and not Apple AAC (native to Ipod, Ipad etc.) that sounds better. The only decent MP3 encoder I remember was "Lame Mp3". Mp3 can be played on any DVD player but other than that AAC is better (not to be confused with lossless ALAC ... | |
| cable burning Al, Thanks for the link. I wonder why "Noise interferes with a cable's ability to transfer an audio signal with the richness, smoothness, and naturalness of music". Transparent cables filter frequencies over 1MHz that are not audible but could pos... | |
| banana plugs or not? Bare wire - if you can squeeze it to create oxygen free connection. Next best IMHO would be spade. | |
| Cable re-burn in I would suspect that several hours is not enough to change anything but several days or perhaps weeks will do it. I remember that when reviewer disconnected battery from Audioquest IC he could not hear any difference but connecting it back after l... | |
| USB to External Hardrive does USB cable matter? It should not matter since music on hard drive has no timing but I bet you'll find somebody claiming big sonic difference. | |
| Hi Res ripping software for Mac ? I use MAX (free) with option "do not allow to skip". It rips to any format and translates from any format to any format. I use Apple Lossless ALAC and Itunes. Itunes work quite well in Mac and poorly with PC - at least that's what I've heard. MAX ... | |
| 46" Plasma or LCD with the best picture. Be careful with Panasonic since it might not work with two channel DAC. Panasonics outputs on optical Toslink output DOLBY with Dolby material and PCM with NTSC automatically (no option in the menu). Sony AFAIK outputs only PCM (people complained)... | |
| Not your everyday bookshelf speaker? http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/1205lipinski/ | |
| Can a variac be used to maintain constant voltage? That would be good application. They also bring supply voltage to regulation range of electronics in case of wide variations (constantly too low or too high). | |
| Can a variac be used to maintain constant voltage? There are also Constant Voltage Transformers based on transformer saturation effect http://www.lenco-elect.com/constant_voltage.htmThe problem with them is poor efficiency and often some distortions of the sinewave.Even if your voltage changes by ... | |
| Amplifier power versus maximum speaker input power Somut, RMS power delivered to speaker is very low (in order of few percent of peak power)*. Your speakers rated for 100W RMS should easily take many times higher peaks. Weak amplifier (without soft clipping) can easily damage tweeters because clip... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b "I have to say I find this field of 'hi-fi' quite frustrating"You're not alone. We are here to learn. | |
| tripath topology amplifier=SET? Tripath is a variation on class D amplifier where name comes from Tripath Amplifier Technologies (that went bankrupt few years ago).SET = Single-Ended Triode amplifier a tube amplifier with only one (in opposition to push-pull) output tube operati... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b Spartanmorning, One reason is that few manufacturers who use more expensive underhanged speakers would have clear advantage. No incentive for everybody else who is using overhang drivers to publish distortion. The other reason is that speaker dist... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Bryoncunningham, Jitter creates sidebands to root frequency (like any modulation) at very low levels. In spite of low levels it is very audible because it is not harmonically related to root frequency. With music (many frequencies) it is basically... |