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| USB cable @melm I thought it should work, since it is differential signaling (receiver detects the difference between +data and -data lines. Receiver ignores any common mode (including GND reference). Many people lifted GND (cut GND wire) and reported im... | |
| USB cable Since your DAC has asynchronous USB the only issue is ambient electrical noise and computer noise injected into DAC - data will always be the same (timing is not involved). I would try a cable with good shielding and no power wires (+5V, GND), si... | |
| FTC may end amplifier rule! ACTION NEEDED Are we talking about the same FTC, that used for 25 years erroneous terms "rms power" and "rms watts" ? (corrected it in 2000). | |
| Capacitance change in balanced connection? I’m not sure why it’s higher for XLR. Effect of the shield on overall capacitance should be lower for "floating" (not GND related) outputs (like microphone or transformer). This should reduce overall capacitance. Geometries might be a little diffe... | |
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| Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ? George, I don’t know Antillion amps and I’m sure they are great, but 7500W into 0.25ohms requires 173 amperes? What kind of power supply can deliver 173 amperes? What about size of conductors? Most of the current will go to woofers, but there is a... | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio Thanks Kijinki. Way over my head, but I appreciate the attempt.Draw on paper two horizontal lines connected by 45 degree transition. Let say, that level recognition point is in the middle of this transition. This will correspond to particular poin... | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio Where this USB power comes from? Computer sourced power is not better than wall wort - both likely use crude switching power supplies. There are very high quality SMPS with lower noise than typical linear supply, but you won't find them in USB s... | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio Kijinki, can you explain the above? How does fiber get interfered by electrical noise?When transition edges are perfectly square (low transition time) electrical noise added to source or destination makes no difference - level change is recognized... | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio Fiber optics likely has slow transition edges, making it prone to electrical noise interference (that affect threshold point in time - hence creating jitter). Adding power conditioner would help. | |
| Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ? @inna you mean you judge the sound of world best amplifiers by using youtube? Your tube sound is recorded in unknown space with unknown speakers by unknown microphones, by unknown recording engineer to create 128 kbps AAC? You must be kidding. | |
| Best Ethernet Setup for Streaming Audio What do you mean by TP-Link. If it is Wi-Fi then nothing before it matters - it is just Wi-Fi data. TP-Link in front of the DAC seems to be optimal (eliminates most of injected noise). D/A conversion always benefits from quiet power supply. Go... | |
| Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ? How, on earth, you can judge the sound on youtube? D'Agostino amps are very good (according to reviews), but extremely expensive. Better question (for most of us) would be "What sounds best for the $" | |
| Amp and Pre-Amp suggestions needed Two points:I don't like tone controls. When I had lower quality receiver and speakers tone controls helped a lot. With better amp and speaker I seldom used them, but now with good gear (I think) I don't need it at all. Lower quality systems are... | |
| Reducing my digital noise floor. Ethernet is just, as you said, "data" and there is no "quality" to it (data is data). This data is likely bit perfect (checksum is verified), or we would have a lot of problems everywhere. The only thing you can improve, IMHO, is amount of noise... |