kijanki
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| Downside to R2R Ladder DACs? George, this is very true - two power supply caps in parallel have smaller ESR, but they also have smaller inductance, often horrible for very large caps. In addition few smaller caps instead of one large cap allows for better packaging (more eff... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? Eric, say no to drugs :)Seriously, I think you were always very informative and very far from trolling - one of the very sane people here. | |
| Downside to R2R Ladder DACs? Laser trimmed resistors on the same substrate tend to have similar tempco and aging. While aging can change initial resistance it is very likely to do it in similar fashion (same material) to all resistors keeping division ratios pretty much the ... | |
| Seeking advise/your experience with wanting a to handle CDs/records without damaging them? Important - when cleaning, wipe CD from inside hole to outside radially. Avoid motion along the track. Error correction works up to about 4mm scratches along the track. Above that, up to about 8mm, it will interpolate missing data and it will s... | |
| Seeking advise/your experience with wanting a to handle CDs/records without damaging them? I keep al my CDs ripped on HD with backup copies. That way I can always recreate CD for myself or copy for a friend. There are ways of polishing the surface, but I would first rip it with good program to get perfect copy (I use XLD on MAC with 2... | |
| SPDIF cable same as coaxial cable? AES/EBU - uses an XLR cable that should be engineered to have 110 ohm impedance.Like with S/Pdif, AES/EBU is an audio transfer standard and not the cable. It can be used with 110 ohm XLR cable (IEC 60958 type I), with 75ohm coax or Toslink (IEC 6... | |
| DAC Chips Both chips in PRO version are 2x8 channels. My Benchmark DAC3 sums them by 4 and uses dual differential outputs. That way they use all 16 channels. 9038PRO according to links provided by George, has dynamic range of 140dB, but it is in mono mod... | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About Staccato effect? Sure, for people who can hear tiny change in few nanoseconds between supports (hundreds of MHz). Let's assume that somebody can hear the difference. To me it doesn't matter if this difference is real or it is only a placebo ef... | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About Sorry, but speed of electricity in the wire is dielectric dependent and is far from the speed of light (around 0.6 of it). In practical terms it is approx. 5ns/m in typical insulated wire and 3.33ns/m in the vacuum.Since dielectric affects the sp... | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About +1 rodman99999 Electric current is a motion of electric charge. The same amount of electric charge that leaves the source comes back to it. Energy has to be delivered different way. It is delivered on the outside of the cable (most of it betwee... | |
| Best Location for Best Cable Normally I would replace cable closer to source - in this case DAC to preamp, but in your case you can set both cables at +22dBu (close to +24dBu pro standard) and the most obvious difference is cable length. IMHO, cable always has negative effec... | |
| DAC Connections to streamer? USB seems to be the best choice since it does not produce jitter directly. It can still induce jitter indirectly by injecting electrical noise into DAC. You could try USB cable with data line only (no +5V, GND) or/and install optical isolation. ... | |
| Bettye LaVette @rpeluso Thank you, it is fantastic - I just finished listening to it. Not to many singers, these days, understands the words they're singing. I can feel she does and she owns each song. I have "The Scene of The Crime", but to me this is much b... | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night RIP Al. My condolences to family. | |
| Think fast: What would you take? +1 toyman What I have learned will come with me. |