kijanki
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| Essential Zappa: what's missing from my collectio Grand Wazoo is Grand | |
| I need an AMP for my Hyperion 968's Slinker001 - I have HPS-938 driven by Rowland model 102 (smallest class D Icepower module) with great results. I use Benchmark DAC1 as a pre-amp (has volume control). Rowland and Benchmark are very transparent and neutral but also unforgiving on b... | |
| high end speakers? ... not sure what brands/model Albireo13 - I ventured from Paradigm Studio/20 v1 to Paradigm Studio/60 v2 to Hyperion HPS-938. My main problem with Paradigms was unforgiving metal dome tweeter. Hyperions are relaxed, laid back and way better in every way (on the other hand they... | |
| HDCD VS SACD "Everything becomes obsolete including your server" - sad but true. | |
| HDCD VS SACD Rwwear - If CD will become obsolete I will still have my server and related hardware for downloads. When SACD becomes obsolete my SACD player is only good for CD. CD, as you said, will be obsolete - therefore good for nothing. I don't mind spendin... | |
| How low can we go with JITTER now? Tgrisham - jitter is noise (in time domain). It creates (in frequency domain) sidebands that are not harmonically related (like THD is) and therefore audible in spite of very low levels. With multiple root frequencies (music) it appears as noise. ... | |
| HDCD VS SACD Spaninc - I agree that sound quality is the first priority but there are three things that always held me back from buying SACD player:- Very limited selection and possibility of format becoming obsolete.- SACD cannot be used from server or comput... | |
| The Last Breakthrough in Speaker Technology Larryi - there are some speakers that use drivers with underhung motor. Underhung is not very common because it uses very large magnet, but gives much lower distortions (better linearity). Example of such speaker is Adagio from Acoustic Zen. Somet... | |
| The Last Breakthrough in Speaker Technology Drivers with no suspension (spiderweb) but larger voice coil connected to big flat disk (instead dustcap). http://hyperionsound.com/Images/HPS-938.jpgAccording to reviews it improves speed and linearity making sound similar to electrostats but ver... | |
| Ripping to Mac OSX "Is there a sonic reason to use another program other than Itunes to rip normal redbook CDs?"Yes. I tunes will rip CDs with errors (even with error correction option set). I use MAX set to CDParanoia algorithm with option "do not allow to skip" an... | |
| To big to fail? What road are we headed down? Byegolly - There is some logical explanation, I'm sure. It might be that returning things within 30 days is pretty much a standard in US while it is not very common in Europe. Plastic wrap protects from returning (copied) CD.Removing plastic wrap ... | |
| When is used used up? Al - Do you remember to increase line voltage slowly over few days? Voltage re-builds up isolating layer of aluminum oxide in electrolytic caps, that tends to get thinner without voltage lowering breakdown voltage. | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? Elberoth - I'm not sure Benchmark is forward but my old speakers have aluminum dome tweeter that is a little hot. In any neutral system, I suspect, bright recordings might sound bad. My solution was to get slightly warm speakers while others use t... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? Elberoth2 - My opinion on class D doesn't count because of my limited experience. I can only talk about technical aspects of it. Class D is interesting subject since Martin Colloms described it as pretty much horrible while Jeff Rowland switched w... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? With the same due respect - it is only opinion. I read his opinion on the best class D amps where he gave them score of 1-2 on the scale of 1-10 while other magazines like Stereophile placed them in class A of recommended components. Problem also ... |