kijanki
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| Are Disc Players Dead? Abucktwoeighty, It is not time consuming at all. Instead of putting CD int CDP insert it into computer and play while you rip. Do only disk that you listen to and eventually you'll go thru all of them. | |
| cable fast dynamic and transparant recommendation Milen007 - Acoustic Zen Absolute are very dynamic and fast but not bright. I noticed cleaner and fuller sound of instruments. I also felt performers just in the room on some records. It is perhaps because they sound very, very clean, and transpare... | |
| cable fast dynamic and transparant recommendation Acoustic Zen Absolute | |
| Why has audio become so specilized over the years? Bombaywalla, Good point. What you call complexity I call choices, but it is the same thing. In general, if you think about life about 50 years ago anybody could comprehend world around. You could understand "how is it done" from electronics to med... | |
| Does such a product exist ?? Mabonn - I have good results with MacMini -> Airport Express -> short glass Toslink -> Benchmark DAC1.Two possible problems for you would be limitation to 16/44.1 and loss of lock between songs (nature of Airport Express). Some DACs are s... | |
| Why has audio become so specilized over the years? Sunnyjim, I remember very old big furniture pieces with built in TV, TT, Receiver and sometimes even speakers. It was difficult to place, to upgrade and to repair. Repair was possible only at home. Today, we got smarter and have very flexible syst... | |
| Is there an average life span for a preamp? Ralph, that might be because of the inductor in series with the woofer that has resistance in order of 0.08ohm at best, but some people still complain about overdamping and the lack of bass. | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Nglazer, I hear you. I'm also getting mad with all the stupid system errors but that's why I bought Mac. From this point on everything went without any problems. Computer works like swiss watch and now I understand how bad the Windows is. Since ma... | |
| Rookie; replace my own amplifier caps?? Magfan - I'm not sure what power cycling does. It improves something, I'm sure, since they recommended it, but don't really know. Capacitors in Maggies' crossover that affect imaging most likely aren't electrolytic but might settle like everything... | |
| Is there an average life span for a preamp? "universally accepted amongst those who do such work that the filter caps in the power supply should be among the first things to be changed during a restoration"I agree. I would also like to have caps changed during restoration of old amp but wou... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Dhl93449 - Maybe I was lucky, but I never experienced failure of stationary hard drive. Just in case I have 2 backups, but I agree with you that CD on the shelf is safer (unless you have fire or theft). I have three hard disks containing exact cop... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Nglazer - many people still don't use computers seeing them as confusing, buggy and not as reliable as abacus. I use Mac Mini with Benchmark DAC1 thru Apple Airport Express with short Toslink. It works without any problem for a long time. Computer... | |
| Is there an average life span for a preamp? Atmasphere, My calculation based on Nichicon data shows that at 35degC (95degF) standard caps should have 80% of capacitance after 17.8 years. Each 10degC cuts life in half, so I would estimate not more than 10 years for caps in hotter amps unless... | |
| Misconnected interconnect XLR is superior in that respect since it cannot get loose, be plugged into output instead of input and cannot be touched since exposed inputs are female with recessed pins.Plugging and unplugging should be done always with everything switched off ... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? "Apparently lossless digital isn't as perfect as many would lead us to believe"Files can be better than original CD. The reason for that is that CD player cannot read the same sector many times, playing in real time, thus interpolating data when s... |