kijanki
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| Delta Sigma DACs Again, SACD is a product of Delta Sigma converter and in order to convert it to analog you need filtering and not another Delta Sigma DAC. I’m afraid you’re stuck with Redbook layer. Your Cambridge CXU can output digital only as S/Pdif and this fo... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Dave, It gets worse. According to John Siau, technical director of Benchmark Media, overly warm sounding gear can make instruments with complex harmonic structure, like piano, to sound like out of tune.Many people find natural sounding amps fatig... | |
| Delta Sigma DACs AFAIK, studios use PCM not because of sound quality but because there is no equipment to do mixing on DSD. Still a lot of people enjoy SACD and DSD in spite it went thru DSD => PCM => DSD transition. | |
| Delta Sigma DACs Jwm, nobody is trying to win anything (that would be juvenile). Sound quality is a matter of DAC quality and not the architecture. When you listen to SACD or DSD you're listening to the output of the Delta Sigma converter. | |
| Delta Sigma DACs Cheeg, The product of Delta Sigma converter is square wave with modulated duty cycle (Pulse Width Modulation). The only processing necessary to convert it to analog is to filter (average) it. DSD (and SACD) is the same product od Delta Sigma con... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Senheis1, I've never heard Vidar amp, but I bet you never heard AHB2 otherwise you wouldn't post this opinion. Stating that AHB2 lacks microdynamics, texture, layering or has poor soundstage sounds like a joke. Please notice that all profession... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Some folks love the Benchmark gear and some folks like it at first, but then ultimately find it fatiguing. I find Benchmark amps and DACs to be colored towards the detailed/analytical side...harmonics seem missing to me.Here is part of the review ... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? seanheis1, you assume that people who like exact (analytical) sound don't seek emotions. Read below, especially response 2:OP:I don't pretend to be a professional reviewer (in fact this is the first time I've been moved to review any equipment), ... | |
| re capping My experience has been, that when caps sit without a charge, that is when the tend to dry out. They dry out more when amp is powered because they get hotter. I replaced supply caps in Cambridge amp and bass definition improved greatly. | |
| What's your investment threshold? I spent $650 on used Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs and another $650 on used Acoustic Zen Satori Shotgun speaker cables. It sounds crazy but they are non-perishable items. Many years from now electronics might fail and speakers will get worn out, bu... | |
| What's your investment threshold? jsm71, You call it an "investment" ???? Perhaps wife is reading :) | |
| re capping Electrolyte is simply drying out. Each 10degC temperature increase shortens the life of capacitor by factor of two. Capacitor rated 60,000 hours at 25degC wil only last 30,000 hours at 35degC, 15,000 hours at 45degC etc. This can be found on ... | |
| Everything else being equal, should I expect better Spotify quality through wifi or USB? What you deliver, by Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi is just data. The question is how this data gets to DAC. My Wi-Fi receiver has analog and digital (Toslink) outputs. Digital could be better (280ps jitter), but fortunately my DAC has good jitter suppressi... | |
| re capping It depends what do you mean by "much better". Do you mean lower inductance, like slit foil caps, that are very expensive, or lower ESR caps that might cause rectifier damage? When you recap 30 years later original capacitors don't exist anymore,... | |
| Everything else being equal, should I expect better Spotify quality through wifi or USB? I use dual band router and dual band receiver (Airport Express). My router has different IDs for different bands. On my computer I select one corresponding to 5GHz (can be checked in router setup). It also depends what do you use as receiver. ... |