kijanki
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| Which purchase tipped you into nirvana. 9.5ft Wow. We have tall ceilings now but I remember times we were living for many years in a hovel with such low ceilings we could only eat pancakes. | |
| Amp damping factor? Bifwynne, It is a trade-off. Amplifiers with very high DF use a lot of negative feedback that enhances bright sounding odd harmonics. How much of DF do you need? It depends on the speaker damping and room acoustics and perhaps many other factors. ... | |
| Success Rolling Opamps in EE Minimax DAC Cheap amps like NE5532 (in my Benchmark DAC1) are so much worse than current best amps like LM4562 or OPA1612 but only if you include DC spects. For AC NE5532 is simply amazing in spite of its age. | |
| Speakers that sound like the Hyperion 938's A-passion, HPS-938s are amazing. All you said plus clean airy sibilants on any material. I bought 6 month old dealer demo for $3k with full warranty in like new condition. Sometimes used 938 are sold here around $2-2.5k but I would avoid very old ... | |
| Using Airport Express/AirTunes. Sfar, It might be dependent on the DAC used. All of them suppress jitter by means of PLL or asynchronous resampling - some more some less. According to Stereophile review test AE is bit perfect so jitter is the only possible difference. Benchmark ... | |
| Fun Little Project for improving Dynamics "So, crystals? Sure, why not?"Of course, why not. I have noticed that my system has better highs on the upper floor (logical) and better bass in the basement. I keep it on main floor as best of both worlds but this effect can be used to tweak the ... | |
| 802.11n USB network adapter I already had hard time initially stetting this network. My friend tried the same with AE on my advice and finally gave up and returned AE to Apple store. I'm computer literate, but more on hardware than software side. I'm planning to change layou... | |
| Using Airport Express/AirTunes. Sfar, I agree 802.11n is the best option since I have dropouts with 802.11g (on occasions only). 802.11n is using 5GHz (5MHz in my previous post was a typo) - less polluted band far away from microwave ovens and cell phones. | |
| Using Airport Express/AirTunes. Airport Express has, according to Stereophile review, decent low jitter optical out and less then perfect DAC (what can you expect for $99). It has two problems: Limitation of 16/44.1 and lack of clock between songs resulting in a loss of few seco... | |
| How essential is shielding? Capacitance of many typical Belden cables run in order of 25pF per foot while the best interconnects go as low as 3.5pF/ft thanks to use of expensive dielectrics (foam Teflon) and special geometries (oversized tubes). Cable with no shield eliminat... | |
| Help a confused newbie build his first setup... Blindjim, I suspect that progress in speaker technology is much slower than progress in electronics especially in signal processing. Starting with the speaker makes more sense to me. As for the split, I would place 45% in electronics and equal amo... | |
| Help a confused newbie build his first setup... "good sound throughout the house" - planar speakers have narrow sweet spot AFAIK. | |
| "The Beatles" Apple Lossless on iTunes? Traudio, It makes sense, since download might be gone after hardware/software disaster but unused hard copy will stay forever. | |
| speaker level sub hookup on class D? Magfan, you're right - I forgot about it. | |
| Help a confused newbie build his first setup... Aldres, buying lower level gear will cost you more since eventually you'll replace it - unless you have, like many of us, "gardener's syndrome" and need to trim and re-pot anyway. I would buy at least one main component of high quality that you ca... |