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| Anyone else have issues with their CD player/transport not playing slightly damaged CD's? If your CDP is not new then perhaps it needs lens cleaning (lens cleaning CD). Inner diameter scuffs are worse being closer. If nothing works, then you can rip CD and record CD-R. | |
| Game Changing Tweak AddPowr’s explanation doesn’t make any sense to me and yes, it sounds like snake oil. Power factor correction in my Furman Elite 20PFI conditioner consists of huge inductor in series followed by large capacitor. It is designed to store energy for ... | |
| Question About Linear Power Supplies and Streamers Hard to tell. Most of the time linear power supply is better, but well designed SMPS can be much quieter - just look at some companies like Rowland or Benchmark that would not use linear supplies because they are too noisy. | |
| What are the signs of caps going in an Amp? I had once an amp with old caps and after replacement bass got more punchy/dynamic. I don't see how power supply caps can make "muffled sound", but perhaps other (than power supply) electrolytic caps are failing (or something else). In ideal cas... | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming Ethernet does not operate in real time. It transmits data in packets, but it is not music since timing is not attached to it. The only way Ethernet (or USB) can change the sound is by injecting electrical noise (by physical connection). | |
| Bi-wire speakers and bi-wire cables? Yes, you can do it, but if you have decent jumpers like:https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Direct-Silver-Plated-BiWire-Jumpers/dp/B0057FK8RS/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=audioquest+jumper&qid=1597306205&sr=8-3(they also come in gold pla... | |
| Need highly transparent detailed amp---how does Pass XA25 compare to Gamut D100/D200 MKIII What about Benchmark AHB2. Practically nothing measures close to it and the only complain is that it is too revealing (transparent, analytical etc). I have one and it is wonderful. | |
| Hearing loss and HiFi Would I be better off selling my current system and buying a BEST BUY receiver and some speakers and calling it quits.Would it improve what you hear or make it worse? | |
| What have you been working on in 2020? Building small electronics lab. So far I have:Soldering StationMicroscopeOscilloscopeArbitrary Function GeneratorBench and portable multimetersLogic AnalyzerPower supplyAntistatic work matI started to play a little bit with the smallest of Arduin... | |
| Thoughts on DAT tape? Any users? Digital tape has one advantage over recording to computer - according to RIAA it is legal to copy any music to digital tape (including friends CDs) because royalties were paid by tape manufacturer. Audio CD-Rs and MiniDisks are also legal, but co... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Volume Control replacement. The one I installed has conductive plastic track. | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Volume Control replacement. George, thank you for the link. Looks very promising. It would have to be on the outside, since room inside is limited to standard 9mm pot while PCB is so close to the hole, that nothing else would fit inside. One option is to put it on the out... | |
| Wired vs. Wireless hickamore, It's the wire, conducting electrical noise from computer or router/network to the DAC. Even optical isolation in Ethernet network has few picofarads across - enough to inject some high frequency noise. I would limit number of necessar... | |
| Wired vs. Wireless WiFi might produce electrical ambient noise, that you most likely already have if you use wireless router, but wired connection can inject electrical noise directly into the system. Also WiFi transmits only data and as such it cannot have lower o... | |
| RCA cable design Tough crowd. Signal doesn’t flow. Current flowsCurrent doesn't flow. Current is. Electric charge flows.(crowd can be even tougher) :) |