kijanki
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| The Placebo Effect If placebo effect exist in audio, then it works both ways. If you strongly believe that cables have no effect on sound then you won't hear the difference in double blind testing - negative placebo effect. | |
| Why do we want to distortions? Tube amps tend to produce less unpleaseant-sounding higher-order odd harmonics than solid state and potentially more even lower-order harmonics which are pleasing to the ear.Piano overtones are stretched over harmonics and beat with them. On over... | |
| Samsung flat screen TV’s The answer is to get your TV professionally calibrated after you buy it. That way the TV does not have to struggle to produce a great picture.That's true, but you can also find calibration settings on internet. There is not so much variation from... | |
| Samsung flat screen TV’s I have two Samsungs for many years - still OK. Few years ago I bought larger TV - a 65" Sony and it is great TV (XBR-65X900F). In addition it is based on Android OS, so I can install applications and it updates firmware often.Is it possible tha... | |
| CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming Drawback of SSD is limited number of write cycles. They increased it greatly, but at the same time introduced new architectures, like "quad cell" - where writing to one cell causes writing to four. It is not a big problem (nothing lasts forever) a... | |
| CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming It depends how you burn them. Often people burn CD-Rs at 2x or 4x nor realizing, that laser is too strong at this these speeds. I might be wrong, but I believe that at the beginning it was just physical burn of metalic layer. Now, it is only hi... | |
| CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming Error in CD reading can be corrected by going multiple times over the same sector. CDP cannot do that working in real time (reading only once). That way CD-R copy can be better than original CD. I was able to repair couple of unreadable CD by ... | |
| Hard to believe all the crap that flows thru an ethernet cable What addl isolation do u recommend?I don't know, but $1300 seems to be excessive. | |
| CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming It appears that these pictures show physical burn to gold or aluminum layer. CD-Rs have photosensitive dye - there is no physical burning. CD-Rs can be written at speeds up to 52x. Reading at 1x should be fine, otherwise we would have huge prob... | |
| Hard to believe all the crap that flows thru an ethernet cable AFAIK galvanic isolation is built into Ethernet standard (transformer or optical), but any additional isolation might help. It would be wise to try before spending money. DAC designers would likely use transformers, since they eliminate DC and s... | |
| CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming Most of CDPs operate in real time. For short scratches along the track (shorter than 4mm) they supply data from error correction. For 4-8mm they interpolate lost data and above that they lose data (gaps). Ripping is not real time process. Comp... | |
| Power Conditioner vs A/C cables I decided I need power conditioner with filtering and strong overvoltage protection anyway. I bought Furman Elite 20PFi and placed it on the shelf below DAC and amp. I concluded, that if power cables have effect on sound, it will be proportional... | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisaa4c3-acoustic-zen-satori-12-ft-not-bi-wire-spades-speaker | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... bruce19 I replaced banana plugs with spades by crimping them first and then soldering with WBT 4% silver solder. I applied heat to end of the wire first to prevent spade expansion and loosing oxygen free connection. That way it's oxygen free an... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Negative feedback increases the bandwidth w.r.t. the definition of bandwidth as the -3db point. However, it does not increase gain at that frequency. We are both going off memory but I am almost certain an amplifier in 1969 didn’t have the IMD num... |