kijanki
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| 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... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Herman - Russian fleas are very special.I would go back to my example with Benchmark DAC1. Even if jitter rejection of this DAC would be perfect people would still claim that it is not, because different drives sound different (read info from CD d... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Once people encounter something counter-intuitive like digital cable affecting the sound they tend to stretch this to every possible case. Different sound of NAS drives could be related to something else then drive itself - for instance music was ... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Herman - The key is to make some sorting. Most of items you mentioned are in analog domain where things are getting extremely complicated but "bits are bits" is relatively easy to explain. Data stored on HD is retrieved without error - (not even s... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Mapman wrote: "I have used internal, external USB, and wireless NAS storage and I have heard no differences. Nor do I hear a difference having used three different computers as music servers."Mapman - you're not going to win this argument because ... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Dob - If you refer to my comment about "fraction of time" - it wasn't about that. It was about whole musical pieces containing peaks vs. rest of the music. I've never said that it is not worth to invest in truthful reproduction of peaks but rather... |