kijanki
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| DAC vs. New CDP Goatwuss - There are two schools (as usual). One says - get asynchronous upsampling DAC (jitter rejecting like Benchmark DAC1) and cheap transport since the only virtue of the expensive transport is lower jitter while the other school says - get N... | |
| I am sick of cables "First off, how is it some kind of revelation that price does not necessarily correspond to performance; the shocking part is that someone just now figured it out."MIT Dave_b example says otherwise - unless you think that Oracle v1.2 Proline retai... | |
| DAC vs. New CDP "If you go with a DAC, you will have the added cost of getting a quality digital cable and power cable (They do matter, IMHO) and also have to store it on an additional self."Not exactly - if you need better power cable for DAC then you need it fo... | |
| Do digital cables differ to analoge cables K_RoseDigital cable has characteristic impedance of 75 Ohm for unbalanced and 110 Ohm for balanced cables. Proper impedance matching is important because digital signal of high slew rate reflects on impedance boundaries causing jitter (noise in ti... | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination "Tradespersons and reviewers heard no difference."Audiofeil - are you ABSOLUTELY sure that it wasn't lawnmower show?How about different amp brands for left and right channel? (8 out of 9 dentists wouldn't hear the difference). | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination Well - If we assume that 70' of cable doesn't make any difference than cable itself doesn't make any difference and Home Depot lamp cord as good as Stealth Indra and thousands of dollars saved. Do you really believe that - if you do then why are y... | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination Sound_real_audioNow you made me suspicious of this show - why would they need 75 feet of the speaker cable? Only one explanation jumps at me: It wasn't audio show - IT WAS ELECTRIC LAWNMOWER SHOW. | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination Audiofeil - I don't know what conditions they had at the show to get perfect imaging and how better it could be with even cables. 70ft of the difference is 4.4 Ohm of inductive impedance at 20kHz. "Not a single listener, including other tradespers... | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination Cable has inductance (0.5uH/ft) even straight one. It is equivalent to 0.375 Ohm of inductive impedance at 20kHz and 6ft. Keep cables always even to preserve imaging. Avoid coiling.Making cables uneven is a little bit like buying house next to pow... | |
| DAC vs. New CDP "One advantage of a separate DAC is if/when the transport dies, you only replace the transport and for some DACs the transport can be inexpensive."Exactly. That was my reason for buying Benchmark DAC1. I use DVD player and HDTV as sources and will... | |
| Passive pre with class ''D'' power amps, issues ?? Channel Island makes two versions of the same D100 or D200 class D amps: version to work with active preamp (26dB) and version for passive one (32dB). | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Al - read also this http://stereophile.com/news/10065/Class A is probably the best SS. The real question is what is the best amp for the money one has assigned to spend. For me it was class D - maybe not at the level of top class A amps but way be... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Shadorne - I suspect that ferrofluid used in many tweeters changes viscosity with temperature. | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Spatine - why do you call it waiting period? Your gear most likely plays at 99% of quality and you can still enjoy music.On my system it takes short time probably half an hour and it might be related to tweeters warming up.If I can toss monkey wre... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? "It seems I have to continue putting up with listen to music late at night after giving the system most of the evening to warm up."Spatine - Can you hear it improving over time. Would you know if amplifier was ON for one or three hours? If you can... |