kijanki
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| 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. | |
| According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media Amount of CDs sold most likely doesn't include used CDs sale. I tend to buy used on Amazon for the fraction of the price and often receive brand new or just missing cellophane wrapper. Condition is not that important anyway, since I rip them to ... | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg My thoughts and prayers to you Al and your family. God bless you. | |
| USB cables and Galvanic Isolation USB generates an unpredictable set of outcomes depending on the implementation of USB ports of the server and DACAsynchronous USB can affect sound only by the fact that it is connected to something, like computer (injecting noise). The same appli... | |
| Problem with CD playing through... Cleaning laser should help. Some people had good results with tiny bit of mineral oil on the rails of the laser carriage. Be careful with it - just tiny amount.My CDP had Philips mechanism with magnetic clamp disk holding CD. This disk had felt... |