kijanki
Responses from kijanki
| This on usb cables Most of new gear uses asynchronous USB, meaning that the timing (clock) of USB transfers and clock of internal D/A conversion are independent. Because of that cable should not affect the sound but often it does, because it picks up noise and inje... | |
| Which reviewers and review sites are the ost reliable? I used to subscribe to Stereophile and now often read it on line. Their reviews are pretty good and include measurements. The problem is that everything is always positive. You can find how they classify them (A,B,C,D) in Recommended Components... | |
| It takes time to get the stink out of your ear The same applies to bad gear IMHO. At first clarity of new Benchmark DAC, felt strange. I had impression that some instruments are missing. I had to get used to it (learn to listen). Others must've felt the same since one person commented "I c... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong @georgehifi Who said production boards will be soldered by hand? Many small companies, including one I worked for, make small quantity of very sophisticated high density boards using Assembly Houses. We used to make them with semi-automatic ste... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong @atmasphere Ralph, perhaps I can help a little with SMT question (although you may already know all this) . Suggestion to use wave soldering for your production is nonsense. It was replaced by reflow soldering more than decade ago. The only al... | |
| What DB level is best for judging audio equipment? It might also depend on room acoustic. I have a bit of slap echo in my living room, that is difficult to get rid of. Playing too loud makes sound worse, less clean - most likely from increased number of still audible reflections. | |
| The Physics of Electricity @viridian, Part of my complicated Polish last name would correspond to "Frogman". Kijanki means "tadpoles" (makes me feel younger :) ). | |
| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp Balanced gives you better electrical noise rejection (if you need it), but costs more and requires additional circuitry to make it (less is more). I don't have a choice since my current and previous amps have only XLR inputs, but I still apprec... | |
| The Physics of Electricity @williewonka These PS Audio articles are good primer except for possible errors like this:The electromagnetic field is strongest nearest the wire, decreasing with the square of the distance moving out away from the wire.It is not the square of th... | |
| Need Advice on Power Protection/Clean Power I bought Furman Elite 20 PFI and installed whole house surge protector. Furman has strong non-sacrificial under/over voltage protection. It doesn’t lower dynamics since it contains huge inductor and capacitor storing energy for peak demands. It h... | |
| Audio Education http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/Amplifier.htm | |
| MQA Stream into non MQA DAC Benchmark Media decided against MQA:https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/163302855-is-mqa-doa | |
| Help ! jimcrane, As I understand it copying to special Audio-CD-R, MiniDiscs or digital tape is legal since royalties were paid on them. In that case you can sell or donate original CDs (you paid royalties twice), but copying to other media like data CD... | |
| Help ! Schubert, Ripping CDs doesn't have to be a tedious job. Just set up the server and when you feel like listening to something place CD in the computer and start ripping. Few minutes later first ripped track will appear in your playback program an... | |
| Fans on amps. I agree, that it has no effect on life of semiconductors while it has some small effect on their performance (Mosfet transistors getting slower while bipolars getting faster). Electrolytic capacitors are affected by temperature. They simply dry-... |