kijanki
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| 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? | |
| 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 ... |