kijanki
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| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Digital and analog cables are constructed differently. In analog cable low inductance, low capacitance, low dielectric constant, purity of conductor and good shielding play important role while digital cable should have exact characteristic impeda... | |
| XLR vs. Phono Cables Propagation velocity is not important with analog cables. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Juanpablocuervo - Electric current is not a "travell of electrons" - they move only about 1/2" per second and is also not a charge moved from electron to electron (wave) since they are spaced 10000 time their size apart. One theory says that elect... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Trondf - Have you tried Vibrapods. It is pretty much the same idea (lossy viscoelstic rubber) and very smart design. I have one of them under each corner of my speakers. Compare to spikes sound is cleaner, bass is faster and more even/musical.Vibr... | |
| LCD TV - Are they reliable ? Undertow - I'm happy so far with my 42" DLP TV (since 2001)but I consider larger size in future. My daughter's TV (plasma-Panasonic 42") has very shiny surface and worse HDTV picture than my DLP. It has something to do with noise reduction softwar... | |
| LCD TV - Are they reliable ? Undertow - I found it on internet:"In fact, many plasma manufacturers boast a life span of 60,000 hours to half life! This is a longer life than a tube based television. The specification is somewhat suspect since the process of determining longev... | |
| LCD TV - Are they reliable ? Undertow - where did you see 25,000 or 30,000 hours rated bulbs? Ultra High Vacum 150W bulb in my 42" DLP Samsung is rated 8000 hrs. and bulb in 50" Samsungs is rated 6000 hrs. Maybe yo're talking about LCD backlit panel and not the bulb.Plasma is... | |
| Transport Upgrade Wig - Benchmark is not sensitive to quality of the transport as long as it is bit transparent (no digital volume control etc). I use Benchmark with a cheap DVD player. DVD players have good tracking and inherent MP3 playback. In addition many play... | |
| Something New. Tonywinsc - I agree but how they going to solve problem of copy protection? Downloaded 24bit/192kHz recording it can be copied for the friends or for sale. Attempts to establish copy protected standard (SACD, DVD-Audio, HDCD) failed. | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Danyal711 - Ref 1000 idle power should be in order of 15W. Average power when playing music won't be much higher - usually few percent of peak power (maybe slightly more if you play heavy orchestral pieces) | |
| Single driver speakers - opinions Mariusz - That's great! I read Stereophile review of 707 speakers. Have you heard them? The other option is to keep modifying my current speakers but I have already problems with new tweeter (Morel Supreme 110). Maybe two Fostex unit could replace... | |
| Are most PC's ROHS now compliant? Led acid batteries are exempt from ROHS.In general ROHS requires amount of lead to be lower by weight than certain percentage of total weight of the unit. In theory one could make unit much heavier by oversizing lub adding stuff and pass ROHS.Etba... | |
| Bel Canto S300 vs Channel Islands D-100 It was mentioned on other forum that Belcanto sound is closer to very good tube amp while D100/200 sound more like very good class AB SS amp. It might be due to output configuration - full bridge on S300 (Icepower)and half bridge on D100/200 (Hypex) | |
| Something New. Blindjim - there is nothing magnetic in the drive. It migh get damaged from huge electromagnets (one that would pull iron from your blood). | |
| Something New. Etbaby - Flash has limited number of writes not reads - you can read it infinetely. |