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| Bass and Treble Dials Sputniks, Adjusting treble and bass can do more harm than good since nature of recording deficiency (if any) is more complex than just treble and bass. It shows in market demand - no tone controls in most high end systems but tone controls in ever... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... "Audiofeil, you know how low ICE impedance runs"It is 10k - just a little low but many class D manufacturers use additional input circuit that increases impedance. My Rowland Icepower uses THAT1200 instrumentation amp to obtain 40k input impedance... | |
| Success Rolling Opamps in EE Minimax DAC I finally replaced opamps in Benchmark DAC1 with OPA1612 and after initial brighter performance sounded a little mushy. There was a LOT of energy (slam) in the bass and extra extension but midrange became muddy. Today I replaced them again with LM... | |
| OPA 1611 / OPA1612 any Impressions Tubey, better late than never - I just replaced all NE5532 amps in Benchmark DAC1 with OPA1612 and play it so far for few hours. NE5532 is a very good amplifier especially for the price ($0.5). OPA1612 is fuller sounding - especially lower midrang... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Dob, I'm confused. I thought that warmth of tubes IS euphonic coloration since tubes enhance even harmonics (artificially added warmth).What is "absolutely artificial origin" and why it is attributed to class D only. Why details are supposedly los... | |
| Are audiophile speakers turn on for single women? Jazzybs, Yes, attraction to women is a drawback and even can be financial disaster for many, home (lost) being the most expensive part of the audio system. Meeting women at the concert is good for common interest in particular music genre and migh... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Simon, I checked Spectron website - very impressive. 100kHz bandwidth and 65A max current is not easy to do. I am especially impressed with bandwidth - less phase shift in audio band. Spectron will be possibly my next amp. | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Spectron,Switching power supply offers many advantages such as ripple that is easier to filter out, voltage that is line and load regulated and transformer that can deliver same power at high frequency at 1/10 of size. The problem here is that SMP... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? According to Technical Director of Benchmark John Siau, DAC1 that I own, was specifically designed not to sound warm but rather natural without enhancement of any harmonics odd or even. Enhancing even harmonics does sound really nice with guitar o... | |
| True Analog LPs versus Digital Recordings Wildoats - good point. I think that the main thing with CDs is really limiting 16/44.1 format. I've never heard 24/192 masters but some people testified here that they sound amazing. SACD should be roughly equivalent to 20/96. | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Simon, - my bad! I tend to attribute everything to DSP forgetting that even simple analog filtering is form of signal processing.As for class D - I believe that it is very good for the money (important to me). Opinions vary a lot. Some believe tha... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... There is no signal processing since most of class D amps are analog. As for the Zobel - Yes it is choke and output resistor and capacitor. Icepower calls it Zobel.Excerpt from datasheet of Icepower 200ASC and 1000ASP modules:"Due to the compensati... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Well, I have Rowland 102 class D amp that "sound dry, unmusical, and strange in the treble ... kind of chalky and rolled off, and definitely lacking air" and unmodified Benchmark DAC1 that according to another review suppose to "sound lo-fi and sh... | |
| Are audiophile speakers turn on for single women? Finding mysterious "woman from the Ukraine who appreciates sound quality and loves music" is a chance one in a million. More practical solution for all you young audiophiles might be to marry a man (not that there is anything wrong with that). | |
| Short piece of spk wire sustitute for spk link? Audioquest jumpers are gauge 14:http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Silver-Plated-Biwire-Jumpers/dp/B0006VMATC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1296537277&sr=8-3My version is gold plated. |