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| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? SACD adds one more layer of complexity by using pit modulation. Modulated pit cannot be copied on standard CD-R transports and there is no SACD writers. | |
| Can digital cables be used as interconnects? Digital cables have poor metals since signal travels only on the surface at high frequencies. Usually it is plain low grade copper silver plated. Also the best dielectric you'll probably find is polyethylene. Everything is neglected since characte... | |
| Audioquest Diamond interconnects Audioquest, to be competitive, moved production to China and changed cable names. Older Python became King Cobra for 1/3 of the price. Viper now is Diamondback, I believe. I had King Cobra - very neutral cable a little smoother in highs than Diamo... | |
| What is the best dielectric? AFAIK foamed Teflon in oversized tubes gives the lowest dielectric constant close to 1 (air). | |
| Which is better longer xlr or speaker cable Rodman - I agree that the only purpose of the balanced cables is to reduce EMI. Capacitance, inductance, dielectric absorbtion, purity of metal etc. still play important role. There is one more purpose for the balanced cable - to protect "hot" sig... | |
| SHMCD : Second thought on buying SACD player Drubin - Absolutely right. CDs will disappear. Current attempts to introduce new formats (CODE on DVD 20bit/96kHz) are going nowhere. Article in Stereophile suggested that SACD is dead as well - many new BlueRay players don't even support it. Ever... | |
| BNC or Toslink?? If your DAC is upsampling/jitter rejecting then it doesn't matter. Toslink is worst (slow) and if you have to use it get glass one. Coax should be impedance matched and as sombody suggested optimal at 1.5m (reflections least interfere). Toslink mi... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Almarg - I'm not clear on reliability and you can probably tell me where I'm making mistake but if we take device like transistor that eventually fails (everything fails) - let say in 100 years then using 1 milion of them would cause earlier failu... | |
| Burning better CD-Rs from Mac/rec eternal burner Drubin - it is also possible that you use poor CD-Rs. Try Taiyo Yuden (suprmediastore.com) considered the best and longest lasting (lowest number of errors). They inveneted CD-R and started production in 1988. | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Almarg - Supercomputers don't fail daily, otherwise we would have serious security problems (unless you talking about software crashes). Audio gear does not contain thousands of components - give me example of one. You will be lucky to find one th... | |
| benchmark and apogee Shadorne - I haven't done any tests - it was review I read.What is good for me might (like neutrality) be bad for somebody else. Good example of this might be sound of the guitar that is often described by presence, projection, separation, sustain... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Almarg - when you have hundreds of thousand od devices you increase chance that one, or connection between them, might be faulty. If number of devices should decide alone on reliability then Pentium processor that contains milions of transistors s... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? "Doesn't current surge, the first 1/2 cycle to saturate a transformer count as stress?"Yes it does create rush current - but there is no evidence that it shortens life of electrolytic caps. It does nothing to transformer or rectifier.You won't fin... | |
| benchmark and apogee Shadorne:That is a very good question. People compare to sound at the concert as reference point. It doesn't work well for popular music or jazz (bad acoustics). Symphony orchestra might be the reference if you can afford good seats.Getting back t... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Blindjim: Yes original question was about longevity - read againBigbucks5: I don't know where you getting your information. Electronics that stays on is also constantly switched - electrolytic cap are geting sharp spikes of current, switching powe... |