kijanki
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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? LPs tend to have better mixing/mastering (or are selected from good recordings to start with). Poorly recorded very low quality LPs won't sell since currently it is only audiophile market while CD will sell no matter how bad as long as music is po... | |
| Help me solve static electricity problem Vhiner - when you touch metal (case) in your system static creates huge current that is "looking" for very fast (nanoseconds)return to earth ground. It always finds many returns and current divides in order of paths' impedance. In your system case... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes There is a Mac's FREE application called MAX: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19873 that does what EAC is doing (only better). It can create exact copy (CDparanoia algorithm with "no skip" option) but also converts any format to any format an... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Tbg - Yes I've noticed it. I was nicely surprised with Snow Leopard. Only $29 and easy flawless installation. | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Jax2 - I don't really have feel for the disk space required by new OS since I installed it not so long ago. As for Firewire, I did not intend to give, as you call it, "lesson" on network protocols (I'm hardware guy) but rather point out the main d... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? "The new OS for both platforms requires more RAM, more HD free space and more processor power than ever (even though streaming music is not really processor/memory intensive)."No, new Snow Leopard requires 100MB less disk space than Leopard. Also ... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Paulsax - I went thru all DOS and Windows version in last 25 years nad now have Mac Mini for about a year. Oh my God - what a difference. The problem is not only that Windows is clumsy and unstable but that Microsoft doesn't fix their own mistakes... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Let me give you example how bad Windows is. Every time new program brings new version of certain DLL (dynamic link library) older programs might stop working because it has the same name and new DLL was not fully tested with existing programs or o... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Mac OSX is based on "Free BSD" (Berkley Software Distribution) that derived from Unix. It is even more stable than Unix for the following reason (quote from Wikipedia): "FreeBSD is a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers and all of... | |
| DAC that re-clocks for under $1000? Realremo - Benchmark is not on the warm side. It is pretty neutral and resolving/revealing. I have class D amp (Rowland 102) that is also neutral and resolving. Combination of two with my previous Paradigm Studio/60 v2 speakers was a little bright... | |
| DAC that re-clocks for under $1000? You can read about Benchmark's technology here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul05/articles/benchmark.htmAs far as I remember at 50GHz most of samples are redundant. This frequency is not real (1 million times oversampling) and is based on stat... | |
| 4 ohm load vs 8 ohm load? What is prefered? "should get peaks 3dB higher into a 4ohm load than an 8ohm load." - 15.7% louder is easier to imagine than 3dB."The damping factor is only relevant when you solder the output devices to the speaker terminals and use active cross overs" - I don't k... | |
| 4 ohm load vs 8 ohm load? What is prefered? Casouza - I agree. I believe that great specifications are often a contrary indicator of sound quality. I would, for instance, avoid amps with thd=0.00001% at any cost.Higher df might be of some value since xover inductor in series with the woofer... | |
| 4 ohm load vs 8 ohm load? What is prefered? With 4ohm you gain 15.7% of perceived loudness but loose almost 100% of damping factor (120 vs. 230). Choose speakers that sound better to you - forget numbers.Perceived Loudness = k^(1/3.5) where k is a ratio of power. | |
| Warm to Neutral Speaker Cables under $800? I second Acoustic Zen Satori. U use Shotgun biwire version (still within your limits). |