kijanki
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| Electrician's advice wanted: safely lifting ground "Consequently, if your house is properly wired the grounding plug has virtually no benefit."I would be very careful with statements like that. Imagine hot wire inside of the box getting loose and touching ungrounded chassis. In order to get rid of... | |
| Why are server setups so costly relative to CDP's? Mrtennis - It depends on the DAC. Jitter rejecting DACs like Benchmark DAC1 might sound different with different transports but perhaps not because of jitter. It was reported many times that it often sounds better with cheap DVD player than expens... | |
| Why are server setups so costly relative to CDP's? One additional advantage of the server is that it allows to rip CD as data reading multiple times until proper checksum is obtained. Most CDPs cannot do this working in real time. It might be important with less than perfect CDs. CDs will get scra... | |
| Do CD treatments improve rips? Hoff48 - I'm not sure that Itunes rips bit perfect. My Itunes rips on Mac, with error correction activated, CDs that are not readable by MAX set to "not allow to skip option". Error correction on music CDs is pretty loose and the only way to read ... | |
| Do CD treatments improve rips? I rip using MAX (Mac) with CDParanoia option "don't allow to skip" selected. Computer reads music disk as data disk with proper check-sums (zero errors). | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Jult52 - About 1% of carrier frequency (roughly 0.5MHz)appears on the speaker cable. To be 1/4 wave antenna, cable at this frequency would have to be over 300ft long. Below 1/10 of wavelength antenna becomes practically ineffective AFAIK. Switchin... | |
| Using different gauge wire for biwiring It depends how cable is built. From manufacturer's point of view skin effect in copper starts at 20kHz at about gauge 18. Using stranded wire is not the best thing since current jumps constantly from strand to strand (to get on the outside) going ... | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. I use FANTOM GF1000T (1 Terabyte) with MAC Mini on Firewire interface. One is storage for ALAC while the other is backup. Drives are $99 after rebate here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822207009&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&c... | |
| asynchronous USB dac or jitter reducing device Paul is right - used USB version will not only guarantee later version without problems I mentioned before but also better op-amps in the output stage and therefore lower output impedance on balanced outputs. It just happen that best jumper settin... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Weseixas - So I understand that in general case manufacturer of the module and maker of the amplifier says that this amplifier is not guaranteed to perform with less than 2 ohm and we know that some speakers are exception.Manufacturer does not rec... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Weseixas - "Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie , so i can see the amplifier being tailored for such a load."If that's the case the why his products are specified 2ohm minimum load. Am I missing something? | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Muralman1 - I'm not sure what statements you're talking about. Please read again second sentence of my post.Again - Icepower modules are not rated for 1ohm (min load 2 ohm) nor H2O amps are. If they work fine - all the better. I just stated specif... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Dob - AFAIK none of Icepower modules can drive below 2ohm and none of the H2O product either. They might be able to drive 1 ohm but are specified at 2ohm min. At 2 ohm min strongest Icepower module 1000ASP used in highly regarded Bel Canto REF1000... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "do they have the depth, warmth, flow, naturalness, transparency, and beauty of live acoustic music?"Yes they do. I'm just guessing you've never heard one? | |
| has anyone heard both Bel Canto and W4S amps? Koven - I have Rowland 102 based on the same module (200ASC) as Bel Canto S300 (or M300). It is 100W@8ohm and not 150W. Bel Canto rates it 150W but at 10% distortions. Icepower modules have pretty low input impedance (10k). Rowland uses THAT1200 i... |