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| USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs? Blinjim - Exactly, we're minority here. The only reason, in my opinion they even went to SACD, HDCD and DVD-A was to introduce strong copy protection (SACD cannot be copied at all). This is understandable since making CD with royalties costs about... | |
| bananas vs spades as terminals for speaker cables Rrog - speaker wire I'm using is a little too complex to use bare. It has whole bunch of strands in individual insulations and one that has again bunch of very thin strands. I decided to uses spades. Many purists believe that adding solder introdu... | |
| What is wrong with negative feedback? Atmasphere - concept is beautiful. Tube class A balanced operation without output transformer. The only problem I can see is that this design requires a lot of tubes and each one has about 2.5A heater current - a lot of wasted power. On the other ... | |
| 'Best' CDP for under $1000 ? Upgrade to GCD-575 Mikey44 I use DVD's digital output connected to DAC. Dac can be connected do preamp (or integrated amp) or be preamp ff it has volume control (Benchmark DAC1 does). Basically it is high quality CDP in two packages. | |
| 'Best' CDP for under $1000 ? Upgrade to GCD-575 What about cheap DVD player (I use $69 Sony) and Benchmark DAC1. It makes you independent from the transport (easy to change) and allows to connect computer. Benchmark DAC1 is very hard to beat in this price range. DVD players have great tracking. | |
| What is wrong with negative feedback? Mapman - Moderation is the word. Instead of feedback or no feedback we can settle for moderate feedback. Sound coloration comes from dynamic nonlinearity of the system with the feedback. Amplifier itself is far from being first order low-pass filt... | |
| bananas vs spades as terminals for speaker cables Ryriken - Many amps don't support bananas. My old Cambridge A3i supported only spades. My current Rowland 102 (and perhaps all current Rowland amps) have Cardas style clamp - for spades only. As for the sound, if there is any difference then accor... | |
| 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... |