kijanki
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| 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? | |
| 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. |