kijanki
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| Effect of coiling power cords? When you wind power cable on toroidal ferrite you create common mode choke, that exhibits inductance for common mode signals (electrical noise current induced in both wires) and no inductance for normal mode signals (currents in opposite direction... | |
| Diminishing Returns rvpiano, There is more fun in chasing the bunny than in catching it, but I'm happy that you're happy. I also came to a point, where I cannot improve my system anymore (some hearing loss), but I will stay and participate from time to time. | |
| Is this a problem? Most likely it is white RTV silicon adhesive, used to prevent larger components from vibration. | |
| Cognitive Dissonance without the Stress--Digital & Analog At Home I am binary, I guess, since I dropped vinyl long time ago, mostly for practicality of digital. Selection of music is much wider and much cheaper. I can buy used CDs and rip them to hard drive, as well as copy my friends CDs to Audio CD-R and th... | |
| Noise reduction -why the rage now ? Some noise might be originating at home (computers, dimmers, electronics, appliances, WiFi etc.) and some is coming from the outside on power lines, from cell towers and radio stations. Many years ago I had loud noise coming from my TV (that was ... | |
| Noise reduction -why the rage now ? Two, many reports of lower noise (in the last 10 years) were in systems with linear power supplies, not switch-mode.Benchmark Media would not agree with it. They lowered noise in their DAC by 10dB (S/N= 116dB to 128dB) by replacing linear power s... | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up +1 gdnrbobThank you Al for mentioning that semiconductors are sensitive to temperature. We often forget it, concentrating on less important factors. Thank you also for providing Wikipedia link, for those who want to learn more, since semiconduct... | |
| Quality of digital cable from from source to DAC? Todd. Let me try to explain jitter. Imagine you play 1kHz sinewave recorded on your CD. Digital words of changing amplitude, representing sinewave, are converted in even intervals into analog values by D/A converter. You get analog 1kHz sinewa... | |
| Quality of digital cable from from source to DAC? @ecolnago All digital cables affect sound of the DAC differently. In order to make sure DAC receives just right amount of data it has to synchronize internal D/A conversion rate with incoming data (S/Pidif) or receives data at different rate, bu... | |
| WD-40 for electronics Deoxit for cleaning potentiometer tracks:https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-F5S-H6-DeoxIT-FaderLube-Spray/dp/B00006LVF1/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=deoxit+fader+lube&qid=1578695010&sr=8-4 | |
| Best way to A / B test amps? Use a switch? What about differences between recordings? Do you now require duplicate identical turntables just to decide which LP is better?Absolutely. Switching is just a distraction and works against obtaining whole picture. In order to get whole picture y... | |
| Best way to A / B test amps? Use a switch? @david_ten Yes, but comparing particular element, like bass or treble extension can result in choosing wrong gear. In early seventies, before Transient Intermodulation Distortion surfaced, you could get a lot of amps with wonderful bass, treble e... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? Yes, administrator should remove your post. There is no hate on our forum. | |
| Best way to A / B test amps? Use a switch? Constant switching will drive you crazy. It is far better, IMHO, to listen to each piece of gear for couple of days to get feel what you like more. | |
| MQA and classical music Benchmark Media doesn't support MQA. They even have application note:https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/163302855-is-mqa-doa |