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| Benchmark DAC1 Pre - anybody heard a mod? Beaster - Empirical Audio used to make modds to DAC1. One of them was to replace NE5532 amps with OPA627. Benchmark engineers stated that OPA627 is inferior to NE5532 (more THD) but Steve from Empirical Audio said that microlevel details are impro... | |
| Getting back into audio and need advice.... I agree with Richlane and Sbank - get Bel Canto DAC3 and sell your current DAC, modded Sony CDP and Cardas cable. It might pay for the difference and you probably don't need it since DAC3 is jitter rejecting. DAC3 sounds, according to reviews, a l... | |
| NOS DAC or CDP? Cleaneduphippy - NOS DAC is sensitive to jitter and will sound better with good transport. I would avoid using optical unless you need to break ground loops.I use upsampling-jitter rejecting DAC (Benchmark DAC1)with the cheapest transport I could ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Model 501 - Help ... Dejanm - As far as I know tweeter has very high impedance at 0.5MHz therefore power delivered will be very low. In addition there should be no intermodulation products because membrane cannot move at these frequencies. | |
| Jeff Rowland Model 501 - Help ... DejanmAny amplifier radiates - even linear one. The question is amount of it. I have Rowland 102 directly under TV and I don't see any evidence of it. I tried different analog (and digital) channels - some with very weak signal and I cannot see an... | |
| Sibilance in recordings: your experience the same? Mdrummer01 - I had the same problem on Barber and many other recordings (my system is very revealing). I changed tweeter's in-series cap from $10 variety to $100 variety and most of sibilants disappeared. Amplifier distortions also convert to sibi... | |
| which DAC? Be careful with used Benchmarks - it went thru many revisions (had problems). | |
| Bel Canto DAC2 owners' advice please Karelfd - why don't you try jitter rejecting Bel Canto DAC3 or cheaper Benchmark DAC1? It will save you a lot of money for good transport and digital cable or improve performance greatly with the cheap transport and cable.Jitter is a noise in time... | |
| 1.5m for 75ohm digital coax? Sidssp - Signal reflections are caused by length. For very short distance there is no transmission line effect. We have transmission line at about <8x ratio between signal travel time and rise/fall time. Signal travels 0.5m at about 2ns and ris... | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier Fbi - It also makes possible to eliminate in-series inductor that limits DF much more (to about 100) than cable itself (it has typical of 0.08 ohm).Kirkus - Magnet structure is often "immense" in underhung motor speakers. | |
| I'm beginning to wonder... "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language".Oscar Wilde | |
| What matters most in speaker design? "There appears to be a point at which drivers are "good enough" in terms of distortion and stored energy."Drew - are you saying that Beryllium tweeters in new Revel Saloon 2 or diamond tweeters in B&W are mistake (unnecessary expense)? | |
| What matters most in speaker design? What is great sounding speaker? Sound depends on many factors and people have different preferences. Do you prefer speaker with underhung motors (less distortion and less dynamic) or overhung motors(more distortion and more dynamics) . Do you list... | |
| Arcam fmj cd23 vs cd33 Ihcho - I've never listen to CD23 but I know that they stopped making it because of yield problems in production of ring DACs. Arcam bought license for Ring DACs from DCS. Idea behind Ring DAC is that at certain point you cannot cross resolution o... | |
| Would you pay to audition speakers Weisberg - that's good point. The problem is that I won't ask dealer without listening and he can still hold my money if we won't agree. I would just stay away from such places. They prices are often insane because they have high overhead caused b... |