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| Outboard Dac's...Do they make a big difference? Trumpetbri - Some external DAC are jitter rejecting and allow to use cheap transport and cheap digital cable. Benchmark DAC1 or Bel Canto DAC3 are the examples. I use Benchmark DAC1 connected to very cheap Sony DVD player and digital TV. I'm plann... | |
| King Cobra to Colombia or Colorado Upgrade? I moved from 0.5m King Cobra XLR to 0.5m Acoustic Zen Absolute XLR. Everything is better a little bit but AZ is way more expensive (I found very good deal on used one). Originally I planned to get used AZ Silver Ref II. My speaker cable is AZ Sato... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Sme10 - I recently installed Furman 20PFi conditioner. It has three banks of outputs: for high current amps, for audio, for video. I connected my components accordingly. After 1 day of pretty muffled sound dynamics came back, imaging got more focu... | |
| Is Phase and polarity the same thing? Elizabeth - In addition to that there are two different definitions of pinout for balanced cable. If amp and pre don't follow the same pinout phase will be reversed.Planar speakers are nice because they don't create peaks and valleys of the bass w... | |
| Audio advancement - why? Atmasphere - People often treat enhancement of even harmonics as a virtue (warm sound). I don't want my gear to enhance anything (if possible). | |
| Audio advancement - why? "If we listen to SS amps long enough humans will evolve to prefer odd harmonics"I must be evolving really fast since I don't like enhanced even harmonics already. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Rja - Cable itself does not have jitter. It creates jitter by reflecting fast transitions on impedance boundaries or allows slower transitions to be contaminated by less than perfect shielding. It is impossible to test it without standard ambient ... | |
| Audio advancement - why? Atmasphere - As far as I know class D amps enhance a little bit even harmonics (being slightly tube-like) and not the odd ones. It depends also on output configuration - from what I've heard full bridge amps (Icepower) sound more like very good tu... | |
| Is too much power in an amp really a problem? Blindjim - watts cost money, you're absolutely right. 100W amp is better than 200W because sound level is about the same and for the same money one can get much better 100W than 200W amp. Power in class D is cheap but not everybody likes the sound. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? 10 out of 10 on spoiled milk test ain't bad - I got 6/10 on the milk and 7/10 on rotten eggs. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Rja - AFAIK jitter is the only difference between digital cables. I don't know of anything else that can affect the sound. Jitter can be measured but many factors can change it - like level of electrical noise around, amount of system noise etc.On... | |
| 110 ohm and 75 ohm Digital as i nterconnects Practical results might be different but digital cables make very bad analog interconnects. There are many reasons for that. Quality of the copper is poor - often silver plated since signal at high frequency (that coax is designed for)travels only... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Pre - anybody heard a mod? Richlane - Thank you. It sounds very clear on my system with stock power cable but exact location of notes/instruments is a little fuzzy. I will try conditioner and/or different cables. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Lightminer - If DAC reclocks like Benchmark (asynchronous upsampling) then quality of the cable is not of importance. Benchmark tested it with thousand feet of CAT5 network cable and it did not show any audible effect. The reason for that is few H... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Pre - anybody heard a mod? Cerrot - what changed from power cable on Benchmark alone? I'm planning to put power conditioner (Furman 20PFi) and very short power cable (Belden 83803) to Benchmark. |