kijanki
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| Speaker phase observation and question? chewie70, My speakers are factory wired inverted by default (woofer wise - tested with battery). This default inverted phase gives me more bass (and fuller nicer sound) while opposite phase brings more treble/mids. My amp and the source (DAC) are... | |
| Harvard newspaper article on Analog vs. Digital teo_audio He is not talking about digital vs. analog in general but about particular difference - the lack of noise in digital. I'm not sure if it is a tape hiss or surface noise but, according to him, it suppose to improve reception of music. ... | |
| Harvard newspaper article on Analog vs. Digital Well, he has whole chapter on surface noise. Ambient noise in the recording will be the same for digital and analog. Same goes for microphone noise. | |
| Harvard newspaper article on Analog vs. Digital Matter of taste. Surface noise on vinyl is not for me. I'm not sure how it makes performance more natural since there is no surface noise at the live performance. | |
| Surge protection for amps? I use Furman Elite 20PFi that have very tight non-sacrificial under/over voltage protection. In addition I have whole house surge protector at the panel. | |
| Should high-end shops be "OBLIGATED" to advise about component matching for best sound? sunnyjim, In order to advertise matching of whole system dealer would have to offer all system components, including a home and furniture, be your age, have the same hearing and sound preference, listen to the same music, etc. In short - to be yo... | |
| Is remastered mainly just less jitter? Jitter is not only an issue of the playback but recording (digitizing) as well. The difference is that playback jitter can be suppressed while recording jitter cannot be removed and the only way to improve it is to digitize it again from analog t... | |
| Very Bad purchase from upscale audio Acoustic Zen Adagio If the finish greyed out because of friction in packing, then perhaps a little bit of furniture wax would restore color permanently. | |
| Very Bad purchase from upscale audio Acoustic Zen Adagio rbogart, I'm sorry and I can understand that in scope of things pursuing this is not that important, but you already met your goal - telling others about dishonest seller. I cannot imagine anybody putting speakers into boxes and not realizing col... | |
| Very Bad purchase from upscale audio Acoustic Zen Adagio Thank you for posting. It will help others. On the other hand Robert Lee is known to be very helpful. I sent him an email (before buying AZ cables) and he responded instantly. | |
| How long does a DAC take to burn in? My Benchmark DAC1 was bright sounding at first, then a little bit muffled and then open, smooth and more extended. It took about 100 hours at least to this point. There were still very small changes after that, I'm sure. My class D amp went to ... | |
| Chuck Berry passed away today.... In 80's I went to Biddy Mulligans bar/club on North Sheridan road in Chicago ($5 cover charge !!!) to see John Lee Hooker. He was incredible with his Coast to Coast Blues Band, but then he introduced his guests Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry. Liste... | |
| Digital cable length- SPDIF vs AES/EBU- 1.5 meter for either? Assuming 25ns transition time (typical transport) and about 5ns/m signal speed (typical cable) reflection in 1.5m cable will come 15ns later (after of the beginning of transition) just missing threshold point around 12.5ns (deforming transition by... | |
| $500 USB cable I described how cables affect the sound and it has nothing to do with "data" being wrong. Audio optical cable (Toslink) has different problems. Transmitter's transitions are very slow, making them susceptible to system noise induced jitter on bot... | |
| $500 USB cable People assign analog attributes to digital cables. Warmer, colder, brighter etc. I just wonder which bits are added, changed, or entirely missed when the sound turns warmer or brighter etc.? If bits are missed or added it will likely cause nasty n... |