kijanki
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| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? From the technical stand point an amplifier cannot strip harmonics, unless its bandwidth is very limited. It might not add additional harmonics, that make sound warm or dynamic. Warm, cold or natural - there is no right or wrong either way. | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? The question is why the gear that is praised by the studio people as closest sounding to life performance, like Benchmark, is called analytical or sterile. I think that we learned to listen to particular sound that carry certain amount of distort... | |
| re capping It depends on time and temperature. If they are at low ambient temp. then most likely they will last for 50 years. If playback increases temperature they will dry out sooner, but 8 hours a week is like no use at all. I would not worry. Will you la... | |
| Delta Sigma DACs The fact that D/A converter is Delta Sigma does not make it DSD capable - ESS9038pro has interface for DSD but Wolfson WM8740 doesn't. | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? Negative feedback cannot strip harmonics and this can be easily measured. If anything, negative feedback widens bandwidth and lowers distortion. Improperly used can lead to Transient Intermodulation distortions (TIM), that add brightness to the so... | |
| What's your investment threshold? I like this logic. I invest in booze - my future benefit is to feel good. | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? If you strip away the natural harmonics of music, you get a lean and very detailed sound I offer you a third option - harmonic richness and tons of detail, and that's my Benchmark DAC3 + AHB2. | |
| Delta Sigma DACs Cheeg, Yes, it can play SACD but it cannot output it other than analog. | |
| 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 ... |