kijanki

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How do you know if your amp is putting out @ Rated Wattage ?
2x power makes only 22% louder. 
Class D Technology
Well, most of people on this forum (including you) think that SMPS is noisy and linear power supply is better.  This believe comes from bad rap of noisy crude computer SMPS applications.  They don't even realize that "Linear" power supply is a pri... 
Class D Technology
The main reason manufacturers of high end audio (like Rowland) use SMPS is low noise and line/load regulation.  You can find it in FAQs on his (or Benchmark) website. He uses SMPS  in preamps where size or efficiency play no role.Yes, top manufact... 
Class D Technology
This is a huge step in the right direction getting rid of another point of noise (the smp), with the added lift of future higher switching frequency/filters and the benefits it brings, would spell the end of all linear amps. And Srajan's tubes b... 
Analog output for hifi
tls49, Thanks - that is very important info. I've spent 2 hours in the store and could not find it.  It ended all good (I love my Samsung), but Panasonics are nice. 
Class D Technology
Nobody can hear 500khz, it the filter that has to deal with it and what’s left over and the byproducts of it that is the problem.What is left over is 500kHz. Byproducts are possible (modulation), assuming nonlinearity of motion, if tweeter can mov... 
Class D Technology
Speakers shift phase much more (in opposite direction) at higher frequencies.  Imaging should be OK as long as phase in both channels match (no reason not to).  As for the switching noise - I cannot hear 500kHz, but I'm pretty sure some people her... 
Analog output for hifi
tls49, My daughter's Panasonic does not have menu selection.  None of Panasonics in ABT Electronics store had it.  Same for LG.  We checked manuals with specialist in the back of the store.  This problem with Panasonics was mentioned in many threa... 
Analog output for hifi
Plain DAC might not work since many TVs, includingPanasonics, output Dolby.  By default they output Dolby with ATSC and PCM with NTSC.  They don't have menu selection.  For that reason I got Samsung.  Check, if your TV has Dolby/PCM menu selection. 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Jim, electromagnetic field would be contained in conduit or even braid.  Very often explanation of Poynting Field brings example of coaxial cable, showing that whole energy flows thru dielectric between the wire and the shield.  As for Boulder 306... 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Current in the wire is a flow of electric charge. Wire creates magnetic field but transports charges and not the energy. Energy is transferred thru magnetic field from the source to the load. The load has some voltage drop in it, hence electric fi... 
directional cables?
Current does not flow - current IS.  Same as current in the river is a flow of water (current does not flow - water flows) current in the wire is a flow of electric charge.  Wire creates electromagnetic field but transports charges and not the ene... 
Resale value
I also buy to own and prefer new, but in case of my speakers (6 month old dealer demo for 60%) the closest dealer to Chicago was in Pennsylvania.  Traveling there would cost me probably the difference between 60% and typical resale of 50%, and I w... 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Kalali, you can do that, but good electrons, that you paid for, might leave the cable, being replaced by just plain cheap electrons. 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Arrows on all other kinds of cables -- XLR, speaker, power, and data -- are utterly meaningless from an electrical standpoint, since audio signals (and wall voltage) are alternating current and interact with conductors the same way in either dir...