kijanki
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| Suggestions for "balanced" interconnects? Within $1k you can get Acoustic Zen Absolute (I use 0.5m XLR) - hard to beat according to reviews. | |
| CDP or DAC with DVD player Braudio7 - I have the cheapest Sony DVD player ($69) with Benchmark DAC1. It is connected with 1 ft 75 ohm coax. In addition TV is connected with Toslink and I'm planning to make another connection to my MAC Mini using Toslink and Toslink/XLR adap... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Musicnoise - hockeypucks might be to hard. Vibrapods are constructed of special rubber specially for that purpose. My speakers are also around 90 lbs and very rigid - (a lot of cross boards inside) but floor is not (basement). Originally I had spi... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Musicnoise - I use Vibrapods. I placed one under each corner. They cost $5 a piece in weight ranges 1-5. I have 5s at the front (heavier) and 4s under back corners. It was one of the best things I bought. Bass became short well control and very ev... | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? Dram temporary, Flash slow - no hope for me Guidocorona. I couldn't find anything on Mark Levinson page about No 52. Do you know that Mark Levinson is owned by Harman Industries that owns:AKG Acoustics - microphone/headphonesAudio Access - A/V con... | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? Guidocorona - what list?..... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced? Musicnoise - I use balanced ICs because my power amp has only balanced inputs. Balanced cables have shield grounded on both ends (not very good thing) and are used by professionals (other than noise reduction) because of male/female system and con... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Tvad - Class A amps consumes about 8x rated output power per channel. Leaving on 100W class A amp will waste 1600W of power. I don't even leave on my class D amp because I don't see any good reason for it. It doesn't take long to warm up the amp -... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? As far as I know the only perishable component inside is electrolytic cap. The most influential factor on the life of electrolytic cap is temperature. Every 10deg Celsius increase in temperature means cutting life of capacitor by half. 10 degrees ... | |
| Sound through Macbook vs DAC Mimberman - I think you're right it was DAC3 and it was more than $2000 (maybe $2500). | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? I think I got this wrong - Linn uses switching mode power supplies but not the output stage. They claimed in 2006 that Class D won't be mature enough for next 10 years. | |
| AM Station coming in through my outlet "What surprise me is that their transmitter towers are 15 miles away and the station about 30 miles."That you know of - in my case it was small local station (probably few kW) within a mile. | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? Sorry for that - my memory is getting worse. Linns amp is Klimax and I thing it's properiatory class D - isn't it? | |
| Sound through Macbook vs DAC "I relized that a DAC will increase sound stage, dynamics, and transparency, but is it worth the 2000 dollars" Nobody can answer this question but you. Benchmark DAC runs around $1000 and is good. Bel Canto DAC2 is, according to Stereophile, bette... | |
| AM Station coming in through my outlet Most likely you have kitchen outlets on the phase that local radio station is on while the other outlets are on separate phase. I have outlets divided half-half between two phases in my house. |