kijanki
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| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? Al - pretty good explanation of Benchmarks operation can be found here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul05/articles/benchmark.htm in chapter "Technology". Of course 50GHz frequency is not real and involves mathematical manipulations. | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? Sufentanil - That was exactly my reasoning. I have now DVD player and Airport Express (computer across the room) connected to Benchmark DAC1. According to Stereophile review Bel Canto DAC3 is better (and has remote) than Benchmark DAC1 but costs 2... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? 4est Forget my comments about rudeness or ignorance - I didn't mean to offend you. As for bit perfect or not - it is "bit transparent" and no, I don't have meter but reviewers often verify it. CDP will play scratched CDs because it has very loose ... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? "For it to be asynchronous the dac would have to control the cpu and it does not."I'm not sure where you're getting this stuff from. Asynchronous sampling just means that two clocks are not related. I modestly mentioned limited experience in audio... | |
| How low is a piano? Grimace - You are correct (41.2Hz). There are 5 or 6 string electric bass guitars that have additional B string (31Hz) but it is made only for ease of playing. Composers would avoid writing music for 5 or 6 string instrument exclusively where most... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? "The Benchmark is not really async, but adaptive if I understand it" - You don't. Benchmark resamples data with new asynchronous clock."you contradicted yourself. First you said that transports won't make a difference. Now you are saying Once you ... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? "bits are just bits. Bits are only just bits if they are there at the right time IME."That's what we're talking about - jitter (noise in time domain). Jitter creates sidebands at -60 to -80 dB still audible since not harmonically related to root f... | |
| How low is a piano? Harmonics of the piano are much more complex than regular overtones. It resembles a little percussion instruments but it might also be due to tempered tuning of the piano: http://www.precisionstrobe.com/apps/pianotemp/temper.htmlBenchmark Media te... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? Demianm - Toslink creates more jitter than coax but with Benchmark it doesn't matter. Benchmark tested DAC1 using 500' of cat5 cable instead of coax and there was no audible difference. I use, with Benchmark, Toslink from Airport Express and coax ... | |
| I need help - Better DAC or NEW CD player? Demianm - Asynchronous upsampling DACs like Benchmark DAC1 have very strong jitter rejection and transport should not make any difference as long as it is "bit transparent" (no DSP, no volume control etc.). With Benchmark you can use even cheap DV... | |
| Running 4 speakers from a 2-channel amp Kirkus - I remember seeing large bass guitar stacks that had a lot of small (about 10") speakers (10-12). They must have been connected serial/parallel to obtain any drivable impedance. I've read on this forum that before SS popularity speakers/dr... | |
| DAC/PRE Bel Canto DAC3 does that. Has remote control of digital inputs and volume. It also has balanced outputs. | |
| Running 4 speakers from a 2-channel amp AL - I would never connect speakers in series but I believe DF doesn't suffer - at least with woofers in series within the same box. It appears that each woofer sees impedance of the other woofer in series (JBL wrote paper on that - that is incorr... | |
| Ever Used the Audioquest King Cobra? Missioncoonery - Perhaps these $75 on ebay plays negative placebo effect on you? It was called Python before and costed about $400 (great reviews). I replaced it with same type (XLR) and same length (0.5m) Acoustic Zen Absolute (not too many ICs b... | |
| asynchronous USB dac or jitter reducing device 2nd Benchmark DAC. I use it with MAC-Mini/Airport Express. Stretch your budget by $150 and get AE ($150) and new Benchmark DAC1 ($995) to obtain 5 years warranty and avoid problems that early Benchmarks had (thin sounding op-amps, high output impe... |