kijanki
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| Benchmark Dac1 Versions 4est - I'm surprised that you could hear any difference between toslink and coax. Benchmark has few Hz jitter bandwidth and at the frequencies of interest - kHz has in order of -100dB supression of the jitter. Typical jitter artifacts (sidebands) ... | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - USB is safe bet but USB sound is not necessarily better than Spdif. Your plan with serial number is the best think you can do. Ask them what else changed afterward.One more thing - If you use it with volume control (like I do) disable th... | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - USB is safe bet but USB sound is not necessarily better than Spdif. Your plan with serial number is the best think you can do. Ask them what else changed afterward. | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - My DAC1 revision is H. Early Benchmark had few problems. First was thin sound of Signetics NE5532 opamps until factory burned down in 2000 or 2001 and Texas Instr bought license from them. Texas Instr redesigned die (larger) and sound go... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? I agree that resolution unveils system shortcomings but I remember also my old inexpensive system 20 years ago that required constant tone adjustment because nothing sounded right - one CD too bright while the other too bassy. Now with better gear... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - I looked at two latest Stereophile reviews of tube amps and I don't see "u" shaped curve.First: http://stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/moscode_402au_power_amplifier/index4.htmlSecond: http://stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/hyperion_ht-88_monobl... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - Look here http://stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/musical_fidelity_titan_power_amplifier/index5.html Find distortions vs. power at 1kHz and it shows this u-shaped curve. Everything behaves worse at low levels. For speakers it might be mechanic... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Your w-3 amp has 0.02% THD at 1W. At a fraction of a watt it might have 0.1% - still not audible while amp with 0.05% THD at 1W might have 0.25% THD at the same fraction of a watt and it might become audible. | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Blazerfan - Twice softer means 1/10 of the power. Four times softer means 1/100 of the power. At low sound levels power might be in fraction of a watt. Amplifiers' distortions, damping factor, bandwidth etc. are measured at relatively high level. ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? CB723 - My Vacuum Cleaner IS very low pressure cleaner. Hope it helps. | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Blazerfan - I looked it up and it is very interesting amp. Very low distortion and high damping factor in an amp with very little feedback - It can be done! (I assume that Simaudio W-3 is the same as Simaudio Moon W-3) | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - I also cannot see connection between high current and low level performance. In each case (including my small class D amp) it is most likely related to particular amp design.Blazerfan - My whole system consists of DAC with volume control and... | |
| Question about power surge protection I use Furman Elite 20PFi conditioner and leave system on all the time. It has positive effect on the sound and very good protection. It uses multistage non-sacrificial protection with circuit breaker. In addition it has separate filters for differ... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Blazerfan - You posted your question twice so I'm posting here as well (just in case):There is nothing wrong with Paradigm Studio/60. I had the same speakers v.2 It performed decent with integrated Cambridge amp but got much better at low volume w... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Blazerfan - There is nothing wrong with Paradigm Studio/60. I had the same speakers v.2 It performed decent with integrated Cambridge amp but got much better at low volume with class D Icepower amp (Rowland 102). I found later review where they me... |