kijanki
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| No-one talks about Rowlands anymore Rowland is going down for 30 years. Perhaps Jeff Rowland doesn't know about it and keeps releasing new products? Might be good idea to call him and let him know :)There was a lot of discussion about Rowland gear on Audiogon. Just search Audiog... | |
| AES/EBU cable length; CD to DAC- 1.5 m or very short? Short cable allows to avoid reflections. The common rule is to use cable that has propagation time shorter than 1/8 of transition time one way, making it about 2ft for 25ns transition time (assuming 5ns/m propagation time). I would not go more tha... | |
| External DAC Benchmark DAC 3 is excellent - exceptional measured performance.Fantastic sound and build quality - just got it (DAC3 HGC). | |
| Obscure brands worth considering Sooner or later? I prefer later. When company has only three dealers for whole US and doesn't advertise at all the outcome is almost guaranteed in spite of fantastic product. There are many established companies to choose, that exist for many d... | |
| Obscure brands worth considering I'm not sure I would buy from "obscure" company again. Hyperion Sound, I bought speakers from, went bankrupt (very poor marketing) and now I cannot replace drivers or Xover if necessary. Drivers are "exotic" to make it worse. | |
| Test Equipment vs The Ear Often measurements are inversely proportional to sound quality. Great measurements can be achieved by usage of deep negative feedback, that will introduce unpleasant TIM distortions, that we don't even measure. TIM distortions were unknown until... | |
| Problem connecting Rega Dac to Macbook 2008 My Mac Mini S/Pdif is IN/OUT. Below copied from "About This Mac":S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Output:Connection: Combination OutputS/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Input: Connection: Combination Input | |
| Not Enough Options for Auditioning Speakers I bought Hyperion HPS-938 speakers without audition (3 month old dealer demo) based on glowing reviews. Hyperion showed them only once in 2004, did not advertise and had very poor dealership base. Closest dealer to Chicago was in Pennsylvania. ... | |
| Problem connecting Rega Dac to Macbook 2008 Your Macbook might not have Toslink out (Macbook Air 2008 doesn't). You can verify by checking "About this Mac" and then "Audio". If it doesn't show S/Pdif there then you don't have it. You could use USB but it will be limited to 16-bit and 48... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Extension is only part of the sound and you don't need a lot of extension to listen to acoustic bass or bass guitar (lowest note 41.2Hz). My current speakers, with larger woofers, have worse (by 5Hz) extension than previous speakers but bass soun... | |
| best way to go from balanced XLR - RCA (unbalanced) - anyone...? There is no advantage to what you are doing. There is advantage if he uses XLR cable and adapter with Jensen transformer. It will have superior electrical noise suppression because of balanced signal, but also because wires are twisted (twiste... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Under the influence of an applied voltage/electric field, I believe that ALL electrons do NOT travel axially, in a direction corresponding to the polarity of the applied voltage, just SOME of them do. I believe that some of them continue to move i... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Al, I mentioned Fermi velocity to show that drift velocity, speed of electrons and speed of electric charge are three different things. | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Therefore in this wire the electrons are flowing at the rate of 23 µm/s. At 60 Hz alternating current, this means that within half a cycle the electrons drift less than 0.2 μm. In other words, electrons flowing across the contact point in a switch... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Al, Herman is right - electric current (electricity) is a flow of electric charge. Current does not flow, current is - charge flows. The same is true in the river - water flows and current is. Unfortunately improper usage of "current flows" (in... |