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| 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. | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? Guido - Have you heard model 102? How do you compare it to rest of Rowland's lineup. To me it was a great improvement over integrated SS but never heard other Icepowers. Somebody said that S300 (same module as 102) sounds sweeter but less focused ... | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? Stanwal -"Digital knowledge is not power amplifier engineering." !Class D amps are NOT digital. There is no limit to resolution. Time (duty cycle) is as analog as voltage. Analog modulator used in class D Icepower is pretty much same thing as sigm... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Eldartford - I'm not sure if Icepower is sensitive to speaker impedance. By numbers it has even higher damping factor than UCD. Opinion might be just carried over from Tripath where output of the filter wasn't in the feedback loop. Somebody mentio... | |
| Jitter reduction, best device? Mapman "If it works, who cares how it did it?" That's true - but understanding helps to narrow search. Sounds of upsampling, oversampling and non-oversampling DACs are different. Many people don't like sound of upsampling converters (Muralman - ar... | |
| Jitter reduction, best device? Asi_tek - Upscaling, also called asynchronous resampling is not bandaiding. It is instead (and not on the top) of traditional extraction of data. In typical CD-player, as far as I know, stream of data coming from the laser has jitter and varying f... | |
| Jitter reduction, best device? Jitter is noise in time domain. Jitter produces sidebands at very low levels but audible since not harmonically related to root frequencies. Jitter free sound has more clarity (free of noise). Many CD were made from poorly digitized tapes and cont... | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? Chris - It might "give more harmonic richness/complexity" if you already have rest of the system that you are happy with. I need to spend money on speakers.Audio always has been neglected an there is only a handful of opamps designed specifically ... | |
| I want to use an OTA HD antenna... Gmood1 - You stated that OTA HD is uncompressed. It is always compressed to fit into standard 6MHz bandwidth but cable companies compress it even more to save on cable bandwidth.Same is for directionality - it is as directional as antenna is at gi... | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? Undertow - Burr-Brown is Texas Instruments now. Perhaps sound changed from "Brown" to "Instrumental"? |