kijanki
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| 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 ... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? Elberoth2 - You can always find reviewer that likes one DAC more than other. Look what abouthifi.com said about it in very long detailed review of V-DAC"As for the V-DACs status versus Benchmarks DAC 1, the latter clearly held its advantage in e... | |
| Magnetic flux vibration damper? Douglas - I was just hoping to sell you two of these 9.4 Tesla MRI machines that my son-in-law is researching at UIC (I can get you a good discount). They are kind of large but this hobby requires some sacrifices. | |
| Magnetic flux vibration damper? I read once about IC sensitivity to vibration - specifically inexpensive Audioquest Topaz had been claimed to be "audible". I repeated test myself setting amp to max loudness and hitting cable with a pencil. It was audible in the speakers. There w... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? If Benchmark then get newer revision - first years had problems (thin sounding op-amps and high unbalanced output impedance). | |
| Static noise connecting DAC via toslink Ajackson1 - I found on Apple forum similar problem:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9476112It looks like Mac Mini removes carrier (red light) after 30s with no signal and some receivers don't like it generating a lot of static. I... |