kijanki
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| Biwire cable on a standard 2 terminal speaker? Often HF and LF portions of the cable are different. One is optimized for the lower frequencies with thicker wires while the other keeps gauge above 18 to prevent skin effect. Combining different wires is beneficial - Audioquest does this inside o... | |
| Do speaker cables really matter? Shadorne - I read the article. It is strange that he describes cable as DC component while impedance of typical cable is few times higher than resistance at few kHz. I also disagree a little with his skin effect assestment (no skin effect in audio... | |
| dh labs Q10 vs ps audio xstream plus or ??? I don't know ps audio xstream but own satori shotgun, read reviews of oval 9 and bought as a gift for my brother biwired Q10. It is difficult to compare because they represent different classes (and prices):1. Satori - best. A little fuller lower ... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Chris - I don't know about cycles but heat cuts down life of caps by two every 10 degree Celsius (18 deg F). It might be irrelevant for many people if amplifier lasts 20 or 40 years. | |
| The best CD Player for the money Magfan - I don't know how they could pass 20kHz with -3dB and 21kHz with -96dB using linear phase filters (Bessel) to avoid problems in passband. Bessel filters have poor rejection at up to 2x -3dB frequency no matter how many poles. Brick-wall fi... | |
| Sennheiser HD 650's thin sounding? 580 is way better than 570. It is pretty much the same thing as HD-600 with the same drivers. HD-600 is tuned a little bit better (position of the drivers).HD650s deliver more bass than HD580 but needs 250-500hrs break-in time according to one rev... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Drubin - very often used CDs sold by Amazon parties are brand new sometimes with hole punched thru paper booklet or backcover - sometimes even thru plastic of the box (can anybody explain why?). I got that way brand new CDs for a fraction of a pri... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. Musicnoise - This is just hypothesis and changes are so miniscule that it's difficult to make sense of it. My speakers show slightly more air in the sound when bi-wired but now I'm not so sure if I made right decision buying shotgun cable. It cost... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Scott - Even if only one person reads book from library it lowers the sales - without libraries people would buy more books. Frank explained to me that library has permission and pays fee to do it. People who rent books from library often engage i... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. Not every HF circuit has resistor in series - it depend on speaker design (many have L-PAD). I didn't say that impedance of the cable is comparable to speaker's impedance - it is in order of 50-100x lower. What I'm saying is that it might be still... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. EMF interaction between speakers is aided by the fact that output of an amp is separated from the speakers by inductance of the cable. Typical wire has inductance in order of 0.3uH/ft - equivalent to 0.188 ohm at 5kHz (counting 10ft both ways). It... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Uru975 - Agree. Nothing can excuse unethical behavior but if not for people copying and downloading - CDs would be over $30 (monopoly+demand) and many people wouldn't be able to afford them. This is more to even the field and in this particular ca... | |
| The best CD Player for the money Magfan - I forgot to answer aliasing. In sampling theory, input signal frequencies that exceed the Nyquist frequency are "aliased." That is, they are "folded back" or replicated at other positions in the spectrum above and below the Nyquist freque... | |
| The best CD Player for the money Magfan - As they say "The beauty is in the eye of beerholder" - some people like NOS players while others like me like a lot of oversampling. I have test disk (Sheffield Lab Test CD) where they imitate NOS an OS with the sound of a drum. I thing t... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Poverty is a really bad thing and people shouldn't do it!Seriously - I know (I hope) when I'm committing illegal act like unauthorized copying of CD or driving 56mpg in 55mpg zone but we have to remember that we are buying from the crooks who in c... |