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| Benchmark dac - why such diverging opinions? Yingtonggao - I found most vivid and detailed sound at 0dB jumper position. It is the same finding as in the following review: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue26/benchmark_dac1.htmI use volume control directly driving power amp from XLR outp... | |
| Benchmark DAC-1 Get The Most Out Of Your DAC-1 Yingtonggao - My Benchmark does not have any jumpers close to headphones jacks. Are we talking plain DAC1? | |
| Noise, hum and AC polarity Sean,Disconnecting ground (third prong) is very dangerous since device was designed to operate with ground present (different design). Reversing HOT and NEUTRAL when unit is not designed for that is also dangerous. It might also, in case of failur... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Marc258 - I wonder if you read anything on this thread before posting. Toslink is not superior. Toslink is not more expensive. All is system dependent. | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Mapman - second generation of REF1000 not only have huge bank of additional capacitors but also converts huge narrow spikes of current to more of resistive load. Was it worth extra price? I'm sure it was. Any small improvement at this point costs ... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Shadorne - You have no clue. Filter will smooth-out the steps but will never remove few Hz modulation that was shown at 21Hz sampling rate. Al, please help me here or I'm going to kill myself.Irvrobinson - I'm not talking about frequency range of ... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Bob - Thanks for the link. I suspect that THD is a dominating factor at higher power. Noise issue itself is non-existent in my opinion because if I cannot hear anything in a silent room at full power (dead silent) I don't worry. Many amps with sim... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Al, Huge errors applied to the highest harmonics only will result only in small sound change. There will be small difference in sound of cymbals and perhaps in ambiance.I use 16/44 and like it, but try to be educated about it. That's all. | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Al, I found video to show what happens when sampling just above Nyquist frequency. It might be possible to fix the output with sinc or other reconstruction functions but only if signal lasts a lot of cycles. If signal is short and disappears recon... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Irvrobinson - I assume that you buy properly sized amp for the speakers and the room. My amp is rated 150W at 6ohm and I am pretty sure I am getting peaks even larger than that (headroom). It corresponds to largest digital number coming from CD - ... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Mapman wrote "you definitely want very good, younger ears"Oh yes, but where can I get it? | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Al, Thank you. You brought very important point - quality of the recording engineering (on the top of compression issue that Shadorne mentioned). Average quality is not very high while some of the recordings I have are just incredibly good. Perhap... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio What can I say - I posted example showing that quality amplifier is not a limiting factor. Why not to respond to that? If you think you can find any mistake in my reasoning please say so. Even for my own Rowland 102 (a class D amp) dynamic range i... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio Shadorne, agree about compression but it is simply who is driving the market. Release uncompressed piano recording (about 96dB dynamics) and a lot of people will complain that on their boom boxes or shelf speakers woofers are constantly buzzing. H... | |
| speakers for 24/96 audio I was trying to show that 16/44 recording wouldn't be a perfect process and that's why it is done in 24/192 but downsampling to 16/44 also takes away quality. Digital reproduction (as well as analog) have limitations. Filtering screws up transient... |