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| Elvis Presley Fans? " Elvis will always be the King!"Cyclonicman - Amen to that. I'm a big fan of Presley but I don't idealize him. Many great talents were not exactly nice people in private life. John Lennon for instance had anger and violence toward women issues. | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping Rabco - I had the same dilemma. FLAC is more popular open standard while ALC is Apple's own. I decided to stay with Mac (I love this thing - had PC before) and don't see disadvantage of using Itunes and ALC. Compression is about the same and there... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping Herman - Thanks, I didn't know that. As for the jitter Benchmark is practically jitter immune. | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping Jax2 - Equivalent of EAC for Mac is "MAX". I set mine to "do not allow skipping" and it reads music disk as data disk - bit by bit. It converts any format to any format. It even allows to download album's cover.I send music from MacMini to Benchma... | |
| Elvis Presley Fans? "And who wouldn't have problems dealing with his level of fame?" - A lot of artists. For instance, Charles Aznavour made over 60 movies composed 1000 songs and sold over 100 million records. In 1998, Charles Aznavour was chosen as Entertainer of t... | |
| Amplifer Wattage Question Russb - try this formula L = P^(1/3.5) where P is a ratio of power and L is a ratio of loudness. In your case L=(250/10)^(1/3.5)=2.508 | |
| Amplifer Wattage Question Russb - 100W is 2x louder than 10W. 200W is 1.23x louder than 100W and 250W is practically the same as 200W. So in total 250W is about 2.5x louder than 10W. | |
| Amplifer Wattage Question Magfan - I don't listen to sinewaves either, I find it a little boring. If the goal is to measure RMS power delivered than standard RMS meters will be probably useless. They don't measure well at high frequencies and they have limited crest factor... | |
| Amplifer Wattage Question Magfan - It cannot be done since woofer midrange and tweeter have completely different power ratings. Applying full power at midrange frequency will most likely damage midrange speaker and doing the same at high frequency will definitely take out ... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Nolitan - I experienced big improvement in clarity with conditioner (Chicago). It also removed upper bass resonance (lower source impedance?). It is important to pick one with high current output for power amp since amp's power supply takes curren... | |
| Which matters more, DAC or transport? "Unless you have a bad transport like say a playstation or a cheap DVD player"There is nothing wrong with cheap DVD player as a transport (I use $70 Sony) as long as it is bit transparent (no digital volume control or processing). DVD players have... | |
| Which matters more, DAC or transport? The only difference between good and cheap transport is amount of jitter it produces. Jitter rejecting upsampling DACs like Benchmark have so low jitter bandwidth (few Hz) that at frequency of interest (kHz) jitter rejection is in order of 100dB. ... | |
| MOSFET Bombaywalla - This is a very strange application since IGBTs are used mostly for very fast switching (motor control, switching power supplies etc.). Do you know by any chance why they were used in class A or AB audio amps? | |
| MOSFET Magfan - Isn't HexFet a vertical Mosfet designed for switching (low resistance)? I'm just saying that there is no perfect device. Mosfets have some advantages as well as BJts and tubes. I use class D Rowland amp where Mosfets are a must. | |
| MOSFET "Lower voltage swing from the same voltage supply compared to the BJT implies lower gain" - No it has nothing to do with gain but with characteristic."Lower gain (for the same amount of bias current) compared to the BJT implies lower bandwidth". -... |