kijanki
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| 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 ... | |
| CDP or DAC with DVD player Jlc - users reported better results with Benchmark + preamp than Benchmark alone - I don't know why. Why don't you take 30-day free loaner from Benchmark and just try it. It is possible that you would like sound from your Sony more (while playing ... | |
| Interconnect cable upgrade disapointment Papajoe - I had both of them but not XLR. I guess by Cobra you mean King Cobra. First I had Topaz then upgraded to Ruby. After that I upgraded again to Viper and then to King Cobra, Currently I have Acoustic Zen Absolute XLR.King Cobra is the same... | |
| Article in WSJ about compressed dynamic range Unsound - isn't it strange that they keep master tapes pure and uncompressed but we won't be ever able to hear them because of this mentality? | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Kal - If you think that characteristic impedance can be different (and it is completely different for analog cable) why don't you connect your TV to roof antena using any cheap shielded cable. Reflections that will apear are pretty much what is ca... | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Musicnoise - of course there is a difference in construction and materials. Digital cable geometry is tailored to deliver 110 Ohms characteristic impedance and therefore eliminate reflections. How reflections add up and corrupt edge of the signal ... | |
| Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables Mmike84 - It all depend on the DAC. If you use asynchronous up-sampling DAC that rejects jitter like Benchmark it won't make much difference what cable you use. I built my RCA to BNC cable using 75 ohm Canare coax. | |
| CDP or DAC with DVD player Jlc76 - That would be the best of both worlds. SACD players are not the greatest redbook players and SACD converted to PCM looses advantage of bit stream. SACD is pretty much one channel Direct Stream Digital (DSD) recording format (4 channel "wid... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Ssglx - I use 5s under front and 4s under rear. I remember from their website that it's better to use few of the low number instead of one of the higher number. I consider putting speakers back on the spikes on oversized granite slab/tile and a lo... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 Mjcmt - when you open your Benchmark check OP-amps manufacturer. If it's Philips than you can possibly change them to a little better (rounder) sounding Texas Instruments. TI symbol on the chip is often shown on the outline/map of Texas while Phil... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 Beerad - I was not talking about upsampling but rather downloading rate to DAC. Benchmark is upsampling to equivalent of 1 million times oversampling (equivalent of 44GHz) making mathematical simplifications and taking statistical value of the clo... | |
| Article in WSJ about compressed dynamic range In my area digital CBS TV station broadcacts at least twice louder (up to point of distortion) than digital NBC station. In addition CBS spikes high frequencies - probably to get more vivid sound on TV speakers without tweeters. It is very difficu... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 Beerad - 384kHz is really impressive but DACs have the lowest harmonic distortion at about 100kHz - therefore Benchmark has 192kHz DAC driven only at 110kHz for lower THD. | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Kenk168 - Thank you. I read it as a weight of the speaker and not the load on each footer. $640 sounds much better. Trondf - how stable are the speakers (how much rubber gives). Vibrapods are designed as pads of special lossy rubber without hard l... |