kijanki
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| 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. | |
| amp for low volume listener w/ wilson audio sophia I'm not sure about match with Sofia but Class D amps are known for very good sound at low levels. I listen soft at late evening and was amazed by performance of my Rowland 102 (Icepower). Later I found few people mentioning the same thing about th... | |
| Is there a compatibility issue with DAC's Standard (redbook) CD is recorded with 16bit at 44.1kHz and that's what you got on the digital RCA output of your Parasound. DACs higest ratings only show top speed and numbers of bits they're capable of and will always work with your player. Digi... | |
| Most expensive Polk432 - lucky you. My wife's sister is ugly, fat, loud, and agressive but fortunately doesn't love me. | |
| Most expensive The ones that your wife doesn't want you to buy - it will cost you half of the house and more. | |
| Interconnect cable upgrade disapointment Shadorne - you make me feel better. I have never suspected I had "golden ears" especially having very hard time to learn music.I cannot explain why Audioquest Viper delivers taut short bass while Audioqest Ruby's bass is full and round. Both of th... | |
| Interconnect cable upgrade disapointment Apology accepted with a small request - if you quote me please quote whole sentences or people might think that you do this on purpose. Example:"Shadorne - I try to be modest (and honest) and don't post any definitive opinions about analog gear si... | |
| Interconnect cable upgrade disapointment Shadorne - I try to be modest (and honest) and don't post any definitive opinions about analog gear since I don't have much experience there. I have problem with people who have zero cable experience but can tell for certain that there is no sonic... | |
| Interconnect cable upgrade disapointment There was a joke about a man who answered an add for music teacher. He couldn't play any instrument, didn't like music and was partially deaf but he called them just to say that they shouldn't count on him.That's pretty much the same when people w... | |
| CD players with no or configurable upsampling There is a purpose for this brickwall low-pass filter. Without this filter aliases of high freqencies will fold into audible band. Filter has to pass 20kHz but reject 44kHz carrier - it cannot be done with even group delay (linear phase) Bessel li... | |
| Spades or bananas connectors? Damn! - I should've said "Blue glasses"20-20 vision? You must be kidding! It's going other direction and fast. |