kijanki
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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Chris - you are probably right. It is impression and not absolute numbers. My Benchmark DAC plays bit games increasing resolution to 24-bit and noise floor to -140dB. Impressions can often be misleading. Sound with small amount of harmonic distort... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool - I was just responding to your statement that digital will never rival analog. Music is recorded in digital (recently in DDS) not for convenience but for the sound. Analog is delivered from digital tapes and since extra element in the c... | |
| CD transport for messed up Arcam Mcgaric - here is the link to CD players repair FAQhttp://www.repairfaq.org/sam/cdfaq.htm | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Shadorne - I recommend American Players Theatre in Spring Green Wisconsin. They play from original text on the hill in the forest (not Burnham Woods though but close).My friend works for large recording studio. All analog (Apex) recorders were rem... | |
| CD transport for messed up Arcam Long time ago I found FAQ on internet describing how to adjust it using oscilloscope. I would leave it to skilled technician.If you decide to turn the pot - remember it is most likeky multiturn, be sure you remember initial position. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool - Perhaps it was asked before, but don't they press some (or most) of the new LPs from digital master tapes? You said that "digital will never rival analog" - digital already won, seems to me. | |
| CD transport for messed up Arcam 1. Possible film on the laser from smoking or ultrasonic humidifier (air won't remove it)2. Worn "puck" (possibly felt) holding CD down - check if CD does not wobbleAs for bad board - the only thing that can slowly go bad are electrolytic caps (st... | |
| Your fast is your amp f rom 0-60 .? Abal - any piece of gear sounds better after few minutes but sometimes it is combined effect of, for instance, speakers sounding better (tweeters' ferrofluid getting warmer etc). In case of the class D it probably achieves full temperature of outp... | |
| CD player NOT made in China under $1,000? Trelja - I agree, good design and management is the main factor. People can be trained including quality control.Waryn is afraid of CD player "Made in China", but he should be afraid of Chinese CD players. Rowland uses Icepower boards manufactured... | |
| Confused by ICE applications Jeff Rowland hasn't released bad product in over 20 years. When he switched all amplifiers production to Icepower technology I seriously got interested and eventually bought one. If it's good enough for Jeff Rowland it's good enough for me. In add... | |
| CD player NOT made in China under $1,000? Trelja - It's amazing that this company is still in business. I'm surprised by better quality of hand soldered components than SMT. My experience is different. SMT process is much better controlled than hand soldering. Company I work for had a lot... | |
| CD player NOT made in China under $1,000? Trelja - where do you see 75% failure rates? Cambridge Audio manufactures in China and there failure rate is not so high. Cambridge design engineer once told me that manufacturing their gear in UK would raise price 2x.CNC is a good thing. People h... | |
| Confused by ICE applications According to one of the editorial reviews (can find it) Bel Canto's S300 suffers thin lower midrange but after placing it on anti-resonance cones sound becomes fuller. Rowland's case is milled from billet of aluminium. | |
| Burr Brown OPA 2143 vs NJM2068 Input offset current is 11nA typ and offset voltage 0.1mV. Total of 0.3mV giving generous 10k unbalance. Gain after DAC is practically none. Sub 1mV offset might be a problem for some power amps but not for mine (5Hz-65kHz). | |
| Single driver speakers - opinions Mariusz - he is my countryman as well but he operates in Massachusetts and it is not walking distance from where I am. I will take you on this offer - didn't you say 75% discount? |