kijanki
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| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - My Conditioner corrects it, but I bough it purely for filtering and good non-sacrificial overvoltage protection. I cannot often understand how things like power cables or conditioners improve (or destroy) sound but I trust experience of f... | |
| Where do you buy good CD recordings? I buy at amazon.com or tower.com. Amazon has better website with reviews and I always had very good luck with Amazon Marketplace - used and new. | |
| DAC benefit compared to denon3930 Loomisjohnson - Only you can decide that. Benefit of upsampling DACs lies in jitter rejection and not conversion frequency. For instance if you deliver 24/192 signal to Benchmark DAC1, it will output it to 24 bit DAC at 110kHz (going in the proces... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Shadorne - I don't question existence of better recordings or better equipment. I just don't want to have gear that sound natural to experts and wrong or boring to me. Somebody mentioned going to studio and listening to what they listen to (to hav... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tvad - You forgot "analog vs. digital" and "tube vs. SS" | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723 - no I would not adjust sound for individual songs but rather pick affordable system that sounds best to me on average with the type of music I listen to. Whole issue of neutrality is very fishy since there is nothing to compare to. Should ... | |
| 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. |