kijanki
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| Extreme hardglass CD What is the advertised purpose of it? If it's jitter reduction then there are other ways of handling that - like jitter suppressing upsampling DACs or players. I suspect that the reason might be longevity. It is probably not very important since a... | |
| XLR interconnects? "If everything you play thru your system sounds good,then there is something going on that is masking the differences."Lacee - absolutely agree. I'm not into vinyl for the same reason I'm not into drugs - addictive and expensive. Is vinyl really c... | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Bob - I forgot to answer your question about deterministic outcome of asynchronous sample rate converter. I think that for practical purposes it is, but anytime you deal with asynchronous stuff strange things might happen. One of them is metastabi... | |
| Why are most High End Amps class A Spatine - I've never had bi-amping setup but noticed that people, most of the time, use identical amps for that. Absolute phase should be the same unless amplifier inverts the phase 180 deg - easy to fix by reversing speaker wires. Problem starts ... | |
| are all amps equal Keslerd - Ivestigate class D Icepower amps. I remember reading that they work nice with Be718s. | |
| XLR interconnects? Lacee - old recordings sound like shit in comparison to best current recordings. You could even tell by the amount of distortion and noise what decade they come from. To add insult to injury they digitized them long time ago when high quality low ... | |
| Why are most High End Amps class A Bombaywalla - not only bias but also gain (before feedback)is different between class A and AB. Class AB requires much higher gain (usually about 10x) to linearize output transistors with deeper negative feedback. Large gain causes amplifier to ov... | |
| XLR interconnects? No chase - Schrodinger's cat is dead! | |
| Should I do it or Not??? Tech question Royy - Bias current is not difficult to adjust but it's not the issue here. The issue is that you don't know what it is. You might make mistake and damage your speakers, as Tobias already stated.Be aware, that you might have more damage than outpu... | |
| Accoustic Zen Silver Reference & Absolute RCA Redoctober2 - that's true, but remember that King Cobra used to be called Python (and was much more expensive) before AQ move production to China and changed names to be competitive. King Cobra is decent cable for the price (at least neutral sound... | |
| Accoustic Zen Silver Reference & Absolute RCA Redoctober2 - I have 0.5m Absolute XLR but cannot really comment on the difference since I've never heard silver ref II. I jump to absolute because it was only 30% more ($600 vs. $450) used and review claimed better performance and I already have ... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Kirkus - You said it right. It is very sad that we don't represent any buying power. | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Ghostrider - I read this before but have hard time to understand importance of it and also why wouldn't this be applied to regular redbook CD in downmixing. This is more of preprocessing technique and has nothing to do with HDCD. If I learn that, ... | |
| Optical /Toslink I don't know if quality of toslink makes difference with DacMagic (it doesn't with my Benchmark DAC1) but you can purchase (I did - just in case) very high quality inexpensive glass toslink here:http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/gltodiopca.html | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Nsgarch - thanks for the info. HRx is much cheaper than SACD and contains physical disk - which I like. It is one more argument to connect computer to my Benchmark DAC1. I wouldn't mind buying few record even if the format won't become popular. My... |