kijanki
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| HDCD VS SACD Kr4 - I was under the impression that Sony abandoned SACD. I could not find current Sony Blu-Ray wit SACD. I checked BDP-S360. BDP-N460, BDP-S5000ES and they don't have it. What Sony model has SACD? | |
| To terminate.. or not Axle - low impedance is only at low frequencies. At RF it appears as high impedance and also as amp's input since feedback is connected there (class AB amp has gain before feedback as high as 4000). I would suspect that the highest radiation comes... | |
| HDCD VS SACD Blindjim - I've never heard SACD but according to reviews I read it is way better than anything else being equivalent to 20bit/96kHz. The problem is that the format is dead. (DSD as I understand is 4 bit wide SACD).- only 5000 available titles - e... | |
| Quest to achieve live sound "Hire a band" - Ncarv, for the cost of some audio gear one can hire symphony orchestra many times. | |
| To terminate.. or not Axle - Shielding is a very difficult thing. I assume you're talking about shielding speaker cables from external EMI radiation. I'm not sure that you need to shield speaker cables but in general shielding works a little different than we think. Sh... | |
| HDCD VS SACD Blindjim - HDCD is not encoded in 20 bit words. The word length is 16-bit. The claim is that it is "equivalent" to 20 bit performance.Part of better sound quality of HDCD is the fact that only (or mostly) very well recorded CDs (or remastered) are... | |
| HDCD VS SACD "It is a playback only decode system, which means that it's benefits are applied during the playback of standard Redbook CD's and is only compatible with that format."This is wrong. It has to be recorded HDCD to be played HDCD so it is NOT "a play... | |
| To terminate.. or not Rja - Why? They are the best invention since sliced bread. My cable is very thick and heavy but it cannot get unscrewed. Traditional post can get loose with rotation of the wire but Cardas Clamp cannot - it is very strong and secure. I also love b... | |
| Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT?? Mapman - I agree, errors are very likely. Even with two identical transports one might have film or dirt on the lens while error correction is very loose (has to operate in real time). Also not every transport is "bit transparent" invoking DSP pro... | |
| DIY tube amps? http://www.triodeelectronics.com/ampsandgear.html | |
| using 75 ohm cables digital intr for analog? They won't damage anything but might be bad for analog for few reasons:- shield grounded on both ends might introduce ground loops- noise induced in shield used as a return appears as a signal- dielectric material is not the best - low grade copp... | |
| Are all Coax digital transports the same? Dne - That's the Toslink I'm using. I bought glass one just in case (Benchmark doesn't care) and found it to be very high quality product for a fraction of a cost of others. | |
| Help with speaker choice Check Hyperion HPS-938 reviews. It had a lot of "Editor's Choice" awards (about 10) and even "Component of the Decade" from Enjoy the Music. It is very resolving and dynamic but at the same time laid back and relaxed. I cannot find CDs that sounds... | |
| Are all Coax digital transports the same? Jitter is basically a noise. This noise is present only when signal is present so it shows just as loss of clarity. DVD players have good tracking and not necessarily bad jitter (cheap because of mass production). They often have very bad analog o... | |
| Dynamic Headroom "A class A amplifier has by definition 0 db of headroom."I'm not so sure of that. Class A is often designed with bias current in order of 150% o max output current to guarantee that transistors won't become nonlinear - hence some headroom might be... |