kijanki
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| Mac mini to eq using toslink? Mac mini has only optical out and if your Beringer EQ has coax input use adaptor toslink/coax on the side of EQ (run Toslink all the way). Toslink is not very good for jitter (but good for braking ground loops) being slow but you don't have a choi... | |
| How important is S/N Ratio....? Wavetrader - that's good!Clio09 - more headroom is always better if you can afford it. If you have let say $1k to buy an amp would you be better with mediocre 1kW amp or great 100W amp. 1kW amp should be twice louder but not always. Amps are rated... | |
| The best CD Player for the money Muralman - I read Kusunoki's article and have few problems with it. First is that he suddenly jumps to single picoseconds from 173ps by increasing number of bits to 20 and claims that it is not possible. we are not reading 20-bit from CD but 16. W... | |
| How important is S/N Ratio....? Wavetrader - if you do this yourself be sure you know what you're doing. Installing low ESR caps with certain voltage regulators might cause oscillation. | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Is it legal to lend my CD to strangers? Recently libraries in my state had lawsuit against them for renting books. It claimed that book was intended for one person only and lending them to many people cuts down on sales and author's profit (true).... | |
| What am I doing??? Ckoffend - I second that. One can live without house, car, wife and children but certainly cannot live without good gear. | |
| Why do dealers do this? Roc_Doc My experience was just the opposite. I borrowed speakers from one dealer and brought them to another who sells another line of speakers. They helped me to bring them in, installed them with their best gear and played couple of hours switc... | |
| How important is S/N Ratio....? Magfan - large dynamic range of 120dB or more is absolutely necessary to reproduce real sound of the large jet planes taking off when I see it on TV. | |
| Plastic female RCA connector What do you mean by plastic? how is it different from "normal"? If it admits male RCA plug then it is normal female RCA socket with a plastic or ceramic isolator between inner an outer metal. There is nothing wrong with plastic - teflon is a plastic. | |
| Mac mini to eq using toslink? I don't understand question and the answer. "Would i be able to use a mini toslink adapter and toslink cable and then go to the eq from the mac mini?" What eq - you mentioned going to Beringer DAC."going straight into a dac from a mac or any other... | |
| Can someone explain the differant CD formats? Don't forget about CODE promoted right now by many artists - it's 20bit/96kHz recorded on DVD.As for HDCD - it cannot play better on regular non-HDCD player. It uses least significant bit to switch dynamic range of remaining 15 bits (in-band signa... | |
| How important is S/N Ratio....? "I maintain that above a damping factor of 50 then you gain next to nothing. In fact, extremely high damping factors may be indicative of very high amounts of feedback and just like an amplifier with a specification from 10 Hz to 400 Khz I am wary... | |
| Someone school me on this stuff Correction - Ultrasound Otello is not an integrated but just stereo power amp - sorry. | |
| Someone school me on this stuff It depends how loud you listen to music. If not very loud then integrated might be simplier choice - like Ultrasound Otello ($600,000) but if you like it loud then go with Goldmund 3kW monoblocks ($375,000). Goldmund is cheaper but needs preamp (a... | |
| NAD 304 - Best SS amp ever? Joelv - my brother has NAD (I don't remember model #) and he replaced stock jumpers (thick U shaped bars) between pre and power amp with Audioquest Python jumpers (6" $25). It opened rolled off top end. |