kijanki
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| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Stanwall - you mentioned your DAC playing at 96kHz better than 192kHz. It is because every DAC chip has lower THD at 100kHz than 192kHz update rate. For that very reason Benchmark decided to update only at 110kHz output DAC chip that is capable of... | |
| CD's in DVD players a compromise? Hifiharv - DVD players usually are not great as CD players because their main function is DVD playback (but have great tracking). If you combine cheap DVD player with jitter rejecting DAC like Benchmark DAC1 you'll become independent of the transp... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Some new DACs like Benchmark DAC1 do asynchronous upsampling with very strong jitter rejection. They sound great with any transport and any digital cable. It is very flexible (I use DVD player), allows long runs of digital cable or connection to l... | |
| I am sick of cables Mmike - I finally got it (I'm slow). I think we agreed there is some correlation. | |
| DAC vs. New CDP Swanny - these upsampling DACs have so much jitter rejection that cables or transport don't matter and your Bel Canto confirms this. The only type of transport that will sound different is the one that is not "bit transparent" by means of DSP proc... | |
| 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... |