kijanki
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| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Learsfool,Trained human voice can get up to 124dB and in opera often does (recording eng of MET says 120dB: http://www.metoperafamily.org/guild/diva/question.aspx?id=15).Shouting Guinness Record is 128dB. Not many instruments can do that. Loudest ... | |
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| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Friends of my parents were opera singers. She was soprano while he was bass/baritone. I heard her practicing ones in the room and it was unbearably loud. It sounded like regular opera voice 5x louder. I've never heard him singing but when he cough... | |
| where do I connect the earth in my pre to? It is unsafe to "ignore ground pin". Gear with two prong plug is designed differently. | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Cables are different from the rest of the system - they are non-perishable. It doesn't hurt to buy better cables now (if you see great bargain) for the future instead of buying twice - as long as you keep them neutral sounding. | |
| Success Rolling Opamps in EE Minimax DAC Mrtennis - OPA1612 (variation of OPA211) is what you looking for (was too warm and bassy for me) but it comes only in SMT (SO8). There are adapters and soldering of SO8 is quite easy.National Semi amps like LM49720 or one I used LM49860 are more d... | |
| High-end amplifier clarification? I suspect that all amplifiers here:http://www.higherfi.com/amplist/amplist.htm might be high end. | |
| Success Rolling Opamps in EE Minimax DAC Be careful with ESR. If we talking DAC then we have most likely volatge regulators. Many voltage regulators don't tolerate low ESR very well. They tend to oscillate when ESR is too low or too high. Also supply current is more even going mostly to ... | |
| Bass and Treble Dials Unsound,Thanks, I haven't seen it before. Looks very interesting.Timlub,You're right - it is Mylar (I checked Wikipedia). Must be different construction or something else. Hey, if it works it works. | |
| Bass and Treble Dials Unsound,That would be really interesting to insert such device in a chain spdif-in spidif-out but I would still stay out of correcting. Timlub,It looks like you know your caps. Outstanding Mylars? - no way (Dielectric Constant = 3). It is probably... | |
| Bass and Treble Dials Timlub,Capacitors used in analog tone controls have tolerance of few percent producing different phase shifts between channels. Same goes for limited track to track matching of the tone potentiometer. Capacitors, in addition, have dielectric absor... | |
| Premature wear from power-cycling? I don't think so. It might wear tubes or switches but is safe for semiconductors and caps. Electrolytic caps will get momentary temperature increase because of large current going thru internal resistance (life of electrolityc cap cuts in half for... | |
| Bass and Treble Dials "Rooms need tone controls"Room treatments improve clarity and imaging. Tone controls destroy clarity and imaging. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Learsfool - jitter is a form of modulation. It creates in frequency domain sidebands of very low amplitude - still quite audible since not harmonically related to fundamental. This amplitude (order of <-70dB) is proportional to level of fundame... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? "I am unaware of any naturally occuring 'harmonics' in an electrical signal. Only distortion of what ever type."Harmonic distortion measurement is done by feeding pure fundamental with no overtones (sinewave) and subtracting the same fundamental f... |