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| 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... | |
| 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... |