kijanki
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| Confused by ICE applications Magfan - I know the IR amp - whole project with schematics and PCB was available on their web site. I like SMPS if designed right. They are regulated and work on non-audible frequency that is easy to filter out (not to mention efficiency). Layout ... | |
| Anyone listening to 24/196? Lightminer - "1k is still a lot!" - Yes it is.Benchmark is an upsampling DAC - it takes input data stream and reclocks it with asynchronous clock. Usampling (oversampling) ratio of 1 million times would not be possible for physical reasons (1 mill... | |
| Anyone listening to 24/196? Lightminer - Benchmark has very high oversampling (close to a million times) and could easily output 192kHz (since it uses 24bit/192kHz DAC) but doesn't because DACs at 100kHz have lower THD than at 192kHz. | |
| Confused by ICE applications Wonderful_electric - I put blankets over my speakers to make sound of my Icepower amp less detailed, gracefully warm and relaxed. | |
| Quietest 500GB Firewire drive? Guidocorona - I'm not sure if it's 2.5". The web site of the Other World Computing is www.macsales.com OWC is the one of the best stores for mac - very helpful and customer oriented. Everything is high quality - they don't sell junk. I bought many... | |
| What the benifit of using a separate dac? Jax2 - It depends when you listened to Benchmark. Early ones had Signetics/Philips NE5532 Op-amps that sounded thin. Around 2001/2002 Philips had factory fire (burned down) and stopped making them. Texas Instruments bought the license and designed... | |
| Does the Transport make a significant difference? same here - bad spelling and technical. | |
| Does the Transport make a significant difference? Shadorne - I was under impression that we discuss sonic differences of different transports with the same DAC and not comparing DAC with stand alone CDP. At least that was the purpose of the thread and my reply to Douglas statement below:"In my ar... | |
| How to test if conductor is copper or silver based Magfan - or 1000 banana plugs (just kidding). | |
| Does the Transport make a significant difference? Douglas - I asked since I have DAC1 with cheap DVD player and no way to compare. From what I found on the Benchmark forum DAC1's jitter bandwidth is in order of few Hz and rejection is reaching 100dB at frequencies of interest (kHz). I know that s... | |
| Need to downgrade any advice?? There is only one right solution to your dilema (obvious if you think about it) - keep the gear and change the girlfriend. | |
| Does the Transport make a significant difference? Douglas - I don't understand what Shadorne is wrong about -he says exactly same thing as you. Am I missing something? | |
| What the benifit of using a separate dac? 1. To be independant of the transport (things break)2. To play other formats 3. Connect computer (server)4. Connect DVD and DTV (use cheap DVD player with jitter rejecting DAC)DACs with jitter rejection (upsampling) are nice - they allow to use ch... | |
| How to test if conductor is copper or silver based Marakanetz - Tin slab of the same weight is more than twice larger than slab of gold. | |
| How to test if conductor is copper or silver based Autosports - the best copper I know of is zero crystal 9N copper that is 99.9999999% pure or 7N silver that is 99.99999% pure.Kenobi -testing for purity is very easy - just weight your banana plug (just the metal part) and then drop into water to ... |