kijanki
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| Can You Beat Simple? Real instruments have harmonic color, body, richness,vividness and full bodied tone There is now way to remove overtones/harmonics of instruments as long as amplifier/pre/DAC has adequate bandwidth. The only thing good gear can remove is color... | |
| Can You Beat Simple? That was my first impression when I bought Benchmark DAC. It sounded so clean - almost like some instruments were missing. I guess we got used to sound with a bit of distortion and/or jitter added noise that makes music sound more dynamic (like ... | |
| Toroidal vs EI power amps any difference. https://www.mpaudio.net/post/advantages-toroidal-transformers | |
| Out building for sound. The dream ver$e$ reality Don't forget about proper earth grounding: | |
| HDD to SSD migration and capacity? The only reason for more headroom is limited number of "writes" to SSD. Controller from time to time rotates data location to avoid any cell being written too many times. Disk with large overhead will last longer, but it applies to extreme cond... | |
| Dropouts when steaming with WiFi connection (Amazon Music). Change, if possible, your WiFi from 2.4GHz to 5GHz. Lower band has only 3 non-overlapping channels, since each channel is 3.5 channel wide. There is a lot of traffic on lower band and in my home microwave worked on one of the channels causing mu... | |
| Arcam CD23 worth saving? Ladder D/A converter are limited to about 18 bits because of components tolerance, while Delta-Sigma converters go only to about 20 bits, because of noise. Ring D/A converter was developed by DCS and licensed to Arcam. Instead of just one compone... | |
| Get out and listen! Good seats in many places (like Chicago Symphony) are reserved for subscription buyers only. In my suburban Chicago village we had nice auditorium (500 people) and great concerts. Last one was John Mayall with fantastic band, but the sound was w... | |
| To couple, or not to couple, that is the question I agree with Eric, it is complicated and floor does transfer sound. I tried to couple (spikes) and decouple (Vibrapods) and cannot say one way is better than another - just different sound. I moved recently from wooden floor/basement home to one... | |
| The character of analog and digital I had decent TT long time ago, but couldn’t stand pops and clicks. Perhaps it is possible to avoid them, but it is not my experience. Pops and clicks take me back to my room when I was already at the concert. As for R2R - layer to layer copying is... | |
| Grounding Question If equipment is designed with 3 prong plug (Class I Equipment) case is grounded protecting user from dangerous voltages. Grounding the case thru interconnect to another case is not only unsafe because of the limited current interconnect can carry... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better I also like food analogy - imagine that you order famous Korean dish known for it salty and sour taste, but you cover it with sugar to your taste. Is it still original dish? When I offer green tea to my friends they put two teaspoons of sugar int... | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? femto clock is mainly useful to sync up the digital stream from a computer Other than Asynchronous Rate Converter used in some DACs (like Benchmark), most of them use PLL (Phase Locked Loop) and have variable D/A converter clocks with S/Pdif t... | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? @ricevs Many claim that amps like AHB2 reduce harmonics. I don’t know how it is possible if amp has flat amplitude and phase response in audio band. Adding even harmonics to create "warm" sound or bit of distortion to create illusion of dynamics s... | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? @yyzsantabarbara Thiel CS3.7 minimum impedance is in order of 2.5ohm (2.8ohm specified, 2.4ohm measured by Stereophile). Driving it by AHB2 in bridged/mono mode is equivalent to driving 1.25ohm speaker in stereo mode. AHB2 is not rated for that ... |