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| 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... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 Mjcmt - Another issue is being independent of transport. I already had Cambridge CD player that failed (laser) and almost decided to buy used Ayre CD player but bought Benchmark and cheap DVD player as a transport instead. Benchmark has 5 years wa... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Trondf - It sounds better than spikes by cutting off resonanses of the floor (basement underneath). The question is how much better it could sound with Equaracks. My modest speakers are around 90lbs each and Equarack footers for this range are $16... | |
| 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... |