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| BNC or Coax? Tobias - I'm not sure how true 75 Ohm RCA plug could be but I used Canare 75 Ohm RCA plugs and Canare wire to build my cable. Severity of impedance mismatch, as Almarg explained, depends on rise/fall times and distance. It is common for CD player ... | |
| Wadia, Benchmark Questions.. "In addition to its function as a DAC, the Benchmark is also a preamp."And the signal path with or without volume control is identical. | |
| BNC or Coax? If you have to use RCA plug - get one with true 75 Ohm impedance (standard RCAs are not). | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Atmasphere - If you can remember 70's it means you weren't there. I remember The Beatles playing on 30W VOX amps and people tossing LUXMAN tube amps to get beautiful and modern transistor amps. These SS amps often had rated unmeasurable THD and IM... | |
| Where does fatique come from? You can find more about fatigue and TIM distortions in first paragraph here: http://www.valutronic.se/technique.html | |
| binding post break in Chrissain - break-in that happens to amplifiers, cables, speakers etc. does not last forever (cables not used for a long period of time start sounding worse). Could it be that you spend a lot of time (weeks?) working on your posts without any play... | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Atmasphere - I read that speakers, before SS became popular, had much higher impedance (32 Ohm or even higher)? | |
| Where does fatique come from? Fatigue might come from TIM distortions. In SS amplifiers with deep negative feedback output transistors go momentarily into saturation when feedback is too slow to respond to fast input signals (charge is trapped at semiconductor junction). These... | |
| Different grades of Optical cables? I bought glass Toslink from this source:http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/gltodiopca.htmlQuality is very high (great connectors, 280 strands of glass) and it is inexpensive 3'=$15, 6'=$20, 12'=$30. They also sell plastic Toslink up to 50' long. | |
| Help Can I use an AES/EBU cable as analog? Swanny - Don't worry about 110 Ohm characteristic impedance - it is for impedance matching at MHz frequencies (to avoid reflections on impedance boundaries)and does not make any difference here. Because high frequency travels only on the surface o... | |
| Toslink VS Coaxial Digital Connection As far as I know the only difference is jitter (noise in time domain). If you have jitter suppressing DAC like Benchmark DAC1 (upsampling) then it should not matter. Otherwise it might depend on other factors like noise or ground loops (that tosli... | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? Muralman - "What is the advantage of introducing a digital power supply into an analog amp?"First of all it's not digital supply - it is as analog as class D. In fact IT IS class D (class D was invented when designers of SMPS were demonstrating t... | |
| Any cables that give more bass Low organ (or piano) notes yes but bass is still within speaker's response (lowest bass note E=44Hz). Analysis Plus Oval 9 are a little bass heavy. Moving speakers and listening position toward opposite walls will help as well. | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? I've heard good things about Rowland Continuum 500 integrated (great bang for the buck). | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? Thank you Guido. |