kijanki
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| 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... | |
| Burning better CD-Rs from Mac/rec eternal burner Drubin - I use xAct for decoding compressed formats (FLAC etc) and SimplyBurns for ripping/writing. Quality is excellent and you can make compilations (just select "Audio" icon). I was switching ripping format to wav (habit from the past) but gave... | |
| benchmark and apogee Shadorne: Morel Supreme 110 is a soft dome tweeter. It has huge magnet but for another reason (underhung coil).Making notch filter seems to be easy but tuning it might be difficult. I have decent microphone (Blue condenser) but have to find comput... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Bigbucks5: electronic fail when you turn it on when it's not designed properly. You can turn on and off electronics thousand times a second for years and nothing will happen. Blindjim: Odyssey and others recommend keeping it on because it takes a ... | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Cyclonicman - I don't understand advantage of leaving equipment on all the time either. Other elements of the system - like speakers also need time to warm up (playing time). Even if Stanwal is right about miniscule effect of time on capacitors (e... | |
| benchmark and apogee Shadorne: What do you mean by "metal or ceramic drivers"? What are the others? I suspect that every tweeter has many points of resonance to different extend.I don't know how to make waterfall plots - have to read about it. Wouldn't spike at 9kHz s... |