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Impdence Question
Oops - should be "I have to think about it" - my english is bad but not that bad. 
CDP or DAC with DVD player
Mjcmt - what happens when you add class D to Benchmark is that lower midrange becomes too lean. It was the case with my Audioquest Indigo thin sounding speaker cables. While upgrating cables I went with Acoustic Zen Satori Shotgun and lower midran... 
Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1
Mjcmt - DAC1 with tube gear is a great combination according to many but I'm not in the "warm sound camp". Class D offers a lot for the money. My Rowland is very basic but there is a lot of great ones. Rowland Continuum integrated is very good bar... 
Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1
Mjcmt - I also enjoy DAC1 as a preamp but connected to class D amp (Rowland 102). Amp is cleaner (less brassy) than my previous integrated SS but when I connected DAC1 first time I had impression that there are missing instruments on recordings I ... 
Impdence Question
Duke - I like your example wit divided coil, but I think that the difference is that EMF of both coils reacts with the speaker membrane motion while in case of two separate speakers it doesn't - even if they are driven with the same back EMF (same... 
Impdence Question
System doesn't like long links and shortens them. The way I see it speakers is controlled when EMF generated by the speaker is shorted. Just take speaker and move/press its membrane - it moves freely. Now try to repeat it with speaker shorted by w... 
Impdence Question
Sorry - link got shortened in my last post - here it is again:http://manuals.harman.com/JBL/CAR/Owner's%20Manual/15515%20GT4%20Man_ENG.pdf 
Impdence Question
Audiokinesis - JBL in users manual for GT4 car subwoofer system states:"We recommend that you avoid connecting separate woofers inseries. The amplifier-damping factor (the amplifier’s ability to control the motion of the wooferis expressed as a rati... 
Impdence Question
"The only practical way to increase driver impedance is to either wire two drivers in series or use a transformer."Do not connect speakers in series because it will lower damping by amplifier (speakers isolate each other from the amp) - poor bass ... 
3 meter interconnect?
Kenneth - There is always a loss of quality, proportional to distance, no matter what type of cable. How pronounced it is depends on the quality of the cable and your perception. I bought my cable short 0.5m "just in case" and never tried 3m one. ... 
hd broadcast
Fred - HD conversion next year applies only to over the air broadcast. Cable and satelite providers can do whatever they want. 
Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables
Ckoffend - Maybe whole thing it is too technical but it is important to understand that 192kHz signal is really transmitted at 25MHz. Maybe part of article below will explain better why digital cables exist. I don't want to engage more in discussi... 
Digital remastering of CD's
Carl109 - I have bad suspicion that the only thing that drives them to create new standard is desire to implement copy protection and raise pricing. SACD has pit modulation technique where watermark of CD is implemented by modulating sizes of each... 
Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables
I do not know what doesn't make sense to you. Frequency of transmitted signal in the cable has nothing to do with transmission line effect no matter what multiplier you put on the top of it. What is important is the highest slew rate appearing. Yo... 
Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables
Whenever an electromagnetic wave encounters a change in impedance some of the signal is transmitted and some is reflected (impedance boundary). Reflected signal creates all sorts of shape distortions making overshoots, oscillations and staircase (...