kijanki
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| Audio and the "jet set" - please help What traveling audiophiles often do is to bring along DAC (like Benchmark DAC1 or DAC1 USB) and connect it to laptop. Benchmark has volume control and headphone amp. It operates 115V or 230V, 50/60Hz. Small class D amp (like Rowland 102 I use) can... | |
| What is wrong with negative feedback? Negative feedback extends bandwidth, lowers Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortions and lowers output impedance.Unfortunately, if not used wisely, is increasing TIM - Transient Intermodulation. In time domain it will show as just small overshoot ... | |
| Anyone successful in dealing with Tinnitus? Cdc - You forgot about Scotch? | |
| Amp not enough power You can use 22000uF/80V (more common value). You can find it in digikey.com Example here:http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=E32D800HPC223MD80M-NDAnother good source is mouser.comexample here: http://mouser.com/Pas... | |
| Amp not enough power 400W is only 1.5% louder than 380W - don't worry. I would recap this amp for better bass control. I changed power supply caps once and that is what I noticed. Bass became shorter more dynamic and cleaner. Older caps have higher ESR (internal resis... | |
| What is Musicality? Sabai - One factor is missing in this discussion. It's passion for music. I think it accounts for 99% of music appreciation. I know people who are interested in one genre of music like Opera or Classical and don't care for the rest of it. At the v... | |
| AudioQuest DBS Field Paulsax - Cable is capacitor. Its capacitance and inductance might play role. Purity of metal might play role as well. The rest of it is a big question mark. I had two speaker cables with about similar highs, lows and midrange but one of them was ... | |
| AudioQuest DBS Field Paulsax - That's mechanics of dielectric absorption. You'll find it here: http://www.sencore.com/uploads/files/UnderstandDielectricAbsorption.pdfIs it significant? I have no idea since I don't use Audioquest but some their cables like "Sky" are ve... | |
| AudioQuest DBS Field "I use Audioquest for all my interconnect and speaker cables by the way"I use Acoustic Zen - better bang for the buck IMHO. | |
| AudioQuest DBS Field If I understand it correctly cables not used for a while sound worse and require break-in period. DBS field prevents it by keeping molecules organized all the time. Also, polarization of molecules is probably stronger with higher voltage (lower di... | |
| Anyone successful in dealing with Tinnitus? AL - Thank you. I googled it with Tinnitus and found few articles showing link. I will tell my wife about it.There was also diet recommended on internet to drink cold water because heating 1g of water by 1 degC burns 1 calorie. People drank very c... | |
| What is Musicality? "Simple, we get bored with the music side of it and need a change to spice things up"Tonywinsc - do you think that listening thru better equipment doesn't offer better overall experience? People get better TVs to see games better not just for the ... | |
| Anyone successful in dealing with Tinnitus? Unerdog - my wife had it for a while. MRI and other test showed nothing. It was only for about 6 months more than 10 years ago and never showed up again. We suspect that it was either stress at work place or large amount of water she drank (some s... | |
| What is Musicality? Jax2 - People became more practical in last 50-70 years and tend to learn only skills that have some market value. It was different before. Generations of our fathers or grandfathers were learning often useless skills believing that life is not pr... | |
| What is Musicality? Bryoncunningham - Good news: You can have cake and eat it too. You don't have to have inclination toward holistic or analytical listening. One can listen most of the time holistically forgetting about volts, watts dB etc. being lost in music, but ... |