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| Hyperion 938 or Defenitive Technology Mythos ST?? Rcduc7 - Yes, I checked this forum and found a lot of info. I might be a little turned off by Paradigms brightness while my class D amp is not very forgiving. I replaced tweeter in Paradigms with Morel Supreme 110 but could never properly integrat... | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - power factor is on the top of it but I was talking about current that linear power supply takes from mains - it is not sinewave but series of high amplitude spikes.Power factor in my system is corrected by Power Conditioner - I'm not sure... | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - No, lower voltage doesn't make for higher current draw (it happens in SMPS) but only limits max peak power. Amp in a sense is a regulated supply that delivers required (at given moment) voltage to the load (speaker). If it runs out of ava... | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Hiendmmoe - Amplifier will be louder at 120V (unless is regulated) than at 116V by less than 2%.(120^2/116^2)^(1/3.5)= 1.0195 | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Nasman - I had it powered from the wall but recently I added Furman Elite PF20 conditioner. Rowland is plugged into high current bank of outputs. It removed bass resonances (nodes) while not affecting dynamics and opened midrange a little (Furman ... | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - Not necessarily. My amp (Rowland 102) has SMPS and produces the same maximum power for supply voltage 85-265V. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "But if the goal is to make a recording sound, as much as possible, like the source, neutrality seems important in achieving it." No - Neutrality does not achieve that because the goal of recording is to sound good on average cheap system or boom-... | |
| Help designing mac mini music server Gonetotc - I use Intel Mac Mini/Snow Leopard with 1TB external triple interface Fantom drive GF1000T (Newegg.com $100) while I keep backup on the second identical drive (Fantom drives are quiet, run cool and have very good reputation). I use firew... | |
| Use of Power Conditioners vs. Direct into the Wall Earzona - I use Furman Elite 20PF. I don't know how it compares to Hydra but it has three separate banks of 4 outputs each: High Current for power amps, Audio, Video. Each of banks has separate appropriate filters. | |
| Making the best of mediocre speakers Price - long time ago I upgraded to Paradigm Studio/60 speakers and bought Rowland 102 plus Benchmark DAC1 (has volume control) using DVD player for CDP (Benchmark is jitter rejecting and doesn't care about transport - also good for computer). Ver... | |
| Hyperion 938 or Defenitive Technology Mythos ST?? Rcduck7 - I just upgraded to Hyperions 938 and would perhaps face similar dilemma in the future. Hyperions have very open, very detailed midrange with nice extension but sound is very relaxed. That works very well with my SS amp and CD/DAC. I woul... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Audioengr - Most of recordings have some form of compression and some are really bad. Wouldn't they sound better with an amp that expands dynamics (instead of being neutral). What about soundstaging? Is deeper and wider better than more accurate p... | |
| Bel Canto CD-2 and Benchmark DAC1 Capq - good question. Upsampling that DAC1 uses is relatively new technique. In addition all oversampling and upsampling DACs have specific sound that some like while others prefer non-oversampling DACs. I don't have much experience - Bob and Shad... | |
| Is weight really mater? Ngjockey - Efficiency of class D plays a role but the most important difference is Switching Power Supply. Toroid in switching supply has diameter of 1-2" and can carry as much power at 50kHz as huge 10" dia toroid at 60Hz. In addition linear powe... | |
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