kijanki
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| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? I enjoy AHB2, but Paul Seydor in Absolute Sound review of AHB2,suggested it is not an audiophile amplifier: Because accuracy allied to absolutely reliable performance is the goal of all the Benchmarks, they are not products that tend to attract ... | |
| USB cables conducor - help Metal should not matter - it is only data in packets (as it is with external USB HD). I would look for quality cable with good shielding. | |
| Harmonic distortion inquiry Since THD is calculated as root-sum-square of rms voltages of individual harmonics as a percentage of fundamental I wouldn't just add THDs of two devices. Most likely it would be again root-sum-square of two (or three) THDs. | |
| Gain / Amplification It totally applies there @kijanki - imagine 10 nV on the IC and then amplifying that small, medium or large. Then you're talking about noise pickup by interconnect. That was mentioned as second reason. First reason was that amp with fixed ... | |
| Gain / Amplification Lower gain in amp and higher gain in pre could be better for two reasons: - It moves more gain to electrically quieter environment (pre) - It reduces relative electrical noise pickup by interconnect. Of course it depends how power amp reduces th... | |
| Digital source upgrade suggestion? My setup is pretty much the same. The beauty of it (WiFi) is that nothing on computer side matters (Computer speed, power supply, amount of memory, playback program etc), since there is no direct connection and no real time clock . Airport recei... | |
| Analogue v. Digital...again (Washington Post) | |
| Grounding questions Hum independent of volume can be a sign of old/dry power supply caps. I would, per maxwave advise, take it to a friend and try it there. Also, since you have balanced connection between pre and amp, check where shield is connected on both ends. I... | |
| Optical Isolation @navyachts Jitter converts to added noise proportional to signal level (no noise without music), detectable only as a loss of clarity. The best way to compare two streamers, network players or digital cables is to listen, paying attention to clar... | |
| Optical Isolation Technically coax should be better, since transitions are faster, hence system noise (jagged edges on transitions slopes) does not convert to timing jitter, but coax is prone to reflections on characteristic impedance boundaries (that adds/changes ... | |
| May The Gas Be With You @czarivey You need Flamenco guitar - poor Presence, huge Projection, short Sustain | |
| May The Gas Be With You The biggest crime are the guys who collect them and DON"T EVEN PLAY! Why? Should people who collect China use it? What about guys who collect knives? :) Collecting is different from upgrading. GAS starts from "Gardener's Syndrome" - constant... | |
| Suggestions for a digital cable. @soix Yes 1.5m is minimum to avoid reflections. It is assumed that cable is not perfectly impedance matched, causing reflection of the signal on impedance boundary. The dangerous one is the first reflection from the end of the cable. If cable ... | |
| Whole House Surge Protection…recommendations! When you get direct (or nearby) hit nothing will help, but I would still use protection for smaller events and of course unplugging. I installed in Siemens style panel two 65kA Siemens "BoltShield" QSPD2A065P protectors ($126 each st Amazon). I ... | |
| Condolenances to The Siau Family John Siau, I'm sorry for your loss. |