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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I bought recently Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 (a decent amateur camera) knowing that colors produced by the sensor are a little off (shifted toward green). To my surprise it is only in JPEG while RAW is pretty accurate. In-camera processing somehow ma... | |
| Anyone tried the Benchmark Cerrot - Yes, it is revealing and very natural sounding (that is also unforgiving on some recordings). Benchmark's technical director John Siau did not want Benchmark to sound warm since it screws up more complex harmonic structures like piano's. ... | |
| Benchmark Dac 1 Pre Volume pot? Be20 - According to Benchmark signal path inside is identical (doubled) with or without volume control. I suspect You might hear benefits of better made volume pot alone. I found on the other forum that volume pots have distinctive sound to them. ... | |
| This is no joke. "You might have just got yourself added to dekay's list....."Mickeyf - Dekay is on my list (I suspect he might be eating animals) | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Albert - thank you. What about large size digital sensors - how do the compare to same size film quality? Price of sensors and electronic will perhaps go down, but lenses will always cost more than amateurs (like me) are willing to spend. | |
| Preamplifier power supply Casouza - yes, transformer should be oversized since mentioned current spikes, while driving recifier/capacitors, heat up the windings (RMS much higher than Average) and their high frequency content heats up the core but 10x is perhaps overkill. I... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Is 8x10 suitable for any task? Can you use it for late afternoon sports pictures? AFAIK depth of field is very low requiring high F stops. I remember that A. Adams was running "F/64 Club". Such apertures require long exposures making it more suita... | |
| Anyone tried ripping SACD as 24bit PCM? Esmith3671 - I know you were only talking about playback but I wish I could load SACD to my hard disk and play them without loss of quality. | |
| New Transport Suggestions for Bitstream DAC Lush,My MacMini is connected to Benchmark DAC1 via Airport Express and Toslink. I tried direct connection and also DVD player and cannot hear any difference. It might be related to high jitter rejection of Benchmark. | |
| Balanced IC used as Digital cable "But does that mean that digital cables may make for better IC's?"Quality of metal is not important with digital signals. Low grade copper is often silver plated since signal at high frequencies tends to travel on the surface (skin effect). Qualit... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Mikelavigne - I wish I could see operation of recording studio. I will look - they might have tours. | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Mikelavigne - I did not say that SACD is flawed. I think that it is vastly superior to redbook (as Beta was to VHS). In addition to better quality (20/96) DSD used in SACD is created without antialias filters that screw-up transient response in tr... | |
| This is no joke. I don't understand it either. If beak "dissipates distortion" into air then it makes it audible. Dimensions are very crucial and beaks are machined with the greatest precision yet should work on the top of any speaker. Sounds like SNAKE OIL. Oops,... | |
| Anyone tried ripping SACD as 24bit PCM? "Will there be a concern for timing issue even when converting one digital format to another digital format?"Yes, if analog level is encoded as time interval (Pulse Width Modulation). I guess it can be converted from 1-bit DSD stream if decoder ca... | |
| Balanced IC used as Digital cable There are two virtues of digital cable: good shielding and consistent exact characteristic impedance. Digital signal reflects in the cable on impedance boundaries contaminating (changing shape) edges (transitions) of the signal therefore creating ... |