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| Should a dac run hot?? Harnellt - I assume you talking about power transformer. Typical failure is caused by overheating and in effect destroying enamel on the wire causing shorted turn. Shorted turn heats up and wire melts interupting current flow. Why you suspect tran... | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Ckoffend - I would say that most, if not all, digital cables have particular targeted characteristic impedance - in case of audio 75 ohm for unbalanced and 110 ohm for balanced. But just look at typical 75 ohm video coax - it is so much different ... | |
| Digital remastering of CD's Carl109 - HDCD is 16-bit. Bit #16 (LSB) switches dynamic range of the signal represented by only 15 bits. | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Here is the quote from Stereophile article "A Transport of Delight: CD Transport Jitter""While we're on the subject of the digital interface, I should point out that the engineering for transmitting wide-bandwidth signals was worked out nearly 50 ... | |
| paranoid listener-damaging speakers? Shadorne - With the amount of money some people spend on audio pursuit every year it might be cheaper to hire symphony orchestra for home performances - nothing beats real thing. | |
| cd plays without preamp Rcme53 - I was able to find that your Dynaco Pat5 has:Magnetic Phono (LO) to Audio Out: 57 dB at 1 KHz.Magnetic Phono (HI) to Audio Out: 63 dB at 1 KHz.Magnetic Phono (LO) to Tape Out/E.P.L. Out: 37 dB at 1 KHz.Magnetic Phono (HI) to Tape Out/E.P.... | |
| paranoid listener-damaging speakers? Shadorne - "Thus the ideal 100-watt audio system would need to be capable of handling brief peaks of 10,000 watts in order to avoid clipping (see Programme levels)." That would is true if average level is insane 100W. In typical home audio system ... | |
| Should a dac run hot?? Cerrot - Red light and hot - yes it is puzzling. Internaly AKM chip detects non-pcm stream and turns off processing. It should get cooler if anything - strange. I will check Benchmark's forum - maybe there is an explanation for that. | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables I don't know why DCS want to transfer signal on two cables (Benchmark uses one for 24bit/192kHz) but jitter rejection properties might make cable discussion irrelevant. | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Ckoffend - Purcell, being upsampling DAC (and not oversampling), most likely rejects jitter. Quality and type of cable might be not very important (it isn't with my Benchmark - also upsampling DAC). | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables I don't see reason why any company would use oversized foamed teflon tubes and 99.9999999% pure copper in digital cable but if you say they do - I trust you. | |
| Should a dac run hot?? Harnellt - Wadia is on the expensive side and you would probably like to keep it for a long time. The only perishable item, I know of, is electrolytic capacitor. Its life is temperature dependant and it shortens by half for each 10 deg C (18 deg F... | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Kal - That's a tricky question since there is no parameters for cables at all (other than characteristic impedance - irrelevent for analog).If you like sound of digital cable as IC then used it. I'm merely suggesting that you won't find good metal... | |
| Should a dac run hot?? Cerrot - Benchmark gets hot when you place something on the top of it or enclose it otherwise. My Benchmark, sitting on the open shelf, is luke-warm. | |
| paranoid listener-damaging speakers? Djwilbourn - When you overdrive speakers you might damage woofers but when you overdrive amplifier than you'll damage tweeters. In either case you'll hear distortions before it happens.In case of woofers I would be afraid of mechanical damage and ... |