kijanki
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| PS Audio DirectStream network bridge When you use USB, you are using the computer as the player and streaming music via USB.You are not streaming music, you're streaming data since timing is not involved. Source of D/A conversion timing is the clock inside of your DAC. Because it i... | |
| MQA - One Filter to Rule them All? http://schiit.com/news/news/why-we-wont-be-supporting-mqa | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? When you use asynchronous USB you don’t transfer music but data. Timing is created inside of USB DAC. For that reason computer speed, amount of RAM or even playback program are unimportant as long as it delivers required resolution and does not do... | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Czarivey, same here | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Timlub, caps unused for very long time, as I mentioned before, loose their rated breakdown voltage, but it takes very long time. Caps might explode because of this, but often when caps are getting very old and dry the avalanche effect (High ESR=h... | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Timlub, I'm not sure why keeping them charged stops them from leaking. Perhaps some capacitors are not properly sealed, to start with, and would eventually leak. Keeping them on will most likely increase their temperature (since electronics diss... | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? I'm not sure why this computer has to be dedicated. Using computer for other chores might affect USB timing, that is irrelevant if you use asynchronous USB DAC. | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Czarivey, will you last 40+ years? | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Czarivey, life of capacitor is reduced by factor of two for every 10degC increase over temperature that life of capacitor was specified by manufacturer. For instance capacitor rated 5k hours at 85degC will last 2.5k hours at 95degC 1.25k hours at... | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Life of electrolytic caps is shorten by the factor of 2 for each 10degC temperature increase. It is simply drying out of electrolyte. Turning amplifier on often produces rush current, but heat amount from that is negligible. Simply, your amp wi... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables Skin effect in copper starts at gauge 18@20kHz. Current in thick stranded cable jumps constantly from strand to strand to stay on the outside of the cable (skin effect). Surface of each strand contains impurities (copper oxide). Insulated strands ... | |
| Redbook Keeps Surprising I’m still not clear on the copyright. If CD-R (or Music CD-R) is intended for personal backup only then there is no need for any royalties, since I paid them once buying CD. If small royalties are paid per CDR than copying friend’s CD should be co... | |
| Your recommendations for cost-effective and musical sounding headphones? I have Yamaha HPH-200WH that for some strange reason cost only $59.99 white at Amazon. Black version is $95 (still a bargain). It has strong tight bass, clear highs and good imaging. I also have AKG K271 MKII and used to gave HD-580 (same drive... | |
| Redbook Keeps Surprising Cleeds, you’re probably right. I know it was proposed in Congress to charge per foot of analog tape in 1985 but looks like it wasn’t approved. Levy on tapes was implemented in other countries like France or Australia. | |
| Redbook Keeps Surprising It is legal to copy any music to a tape since tape manufacturers pay royalties per foot of the tape. Same is the case when you copy to "Music CDR", that is slightly more expansive (because of royalties) than plain CDR.As for copy vs original soun... |