kijanki
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| Apple Airport Express to DAC Mini/Toslink cable might work better than adaptor+cable. I found that blinking yellow light on the AE is a sign that firmware should be updated. (It stopped after update). I'm not sure it changed anything since it worked fine before and after up... | |
| Guide for understanding wire gauge and resistance Just another take on the rule of thumb that wire diameter doubles for each 3 AWG unit decrease (i.e., #3 is twice the diameter of #6). #3 diameter is 0.2294" while #6 is 0.1620"Wire diameter doubles for each 6 AWG decrease. | |
| Anticables I bought used Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs that retail >$2k and found them better than $200 AQ King Cobra by small margin. Same neutral character, slightly faster transients, more refined (cleaner) with darker background, a little better imaging.... | |
| Guide for understanding wire gauge and resistance People usually think of speaker gauge when they calculate Damping Factor forgetting that speaker/driver resistance is in series with back EMF making best effective DF around 1.25 | |
| Guide for understanding wire gauge and resistance Read carefully again - RESISTANCE. As for impedance - it usually doesn't drop below couple of ohms making 10 miliohms irrelevant. | |
| Guide for understanding wire gauge and resistance Ptss, I understand you posted this in the context of the speaker cable resistance. Please take into consideration that most of the speaker impedance is resistive. 8 ohm speaker will have, most likely, resistance of 6 ohm. Your 10 mohms, in com... | |
| Apple Airport Express to DAC Found it:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002MQGRM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1and the cable:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D1A8KM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 | |
| Apple Airport Express to DAC Don't remember the brand - mini optical to Toslink, then 3' glass Toslink to DAC. | |
| Apple Airport Express to DAC I'm running AE (7.6.8) with no issues. I had Wi-Fi drops until I switched to 5GHz router (dual band). The only thing I can think of is, that either optical mini plug on the Toslink cable, or mini/Toslink adaptor (I use adaptor) have bad contact ... | |
| Getting good sound from MacBook via DAC. Itunes should not make any difference, since you're transferring data and not the music. As long as it is bit-perfect you should be OK. One possibility is that there is something in the MACs software (or USB) settings (or Bryston settings) tha... | |
| Where is the optimal place to have an interface between two different metals? Power cable has two conductors hence two junctions generating voltages in opposite directions that cancel each other. Even with small DC voltage there would be no distortion, not to mention that there is always small amount of DC on AC lines. | |
| Class D Technology Yes, sometimes there is additional circuitry to Icepower modules. For instance my small Rowland has additional instrumentation amp (THAT1200), that improves common mode noise rejection as well as increases standard 10k input impedance to 40k. Bo... | |
| Class D Technology Perhaps in traditional multistage amps. I'm not also sure what the "voicing" means. Would this imply that two different amps with the same Mosfet input stage are voiced exactly the same? As I said - a lot of hot air. Manufacturers of expensive... | |
| Class D Technology I'm not sure what this "class A input stage" is. Input stages are almost always class A (would be stupid not to), but class D amp is pretty much one stage - a modulator + output transistors. Any additional input stage is not advantageous to clas... | |
| Which is better Coax or Optical cables thankful - it is system thing. What works for one system might not work for another (even for the same system but in different location). Transitions in optical cable are very slow, therefore it is sensitive to system noise (varying threshold poin... |