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| Single ended vs xlr balanced XLR might be better where ambient electrical noise is high, but requires additional circuitry that may reduce transparency. Terms "Fully balanced" and "Truly balanced" mean something different. True balancing is achieved by means of the input tr... | |
| DACs that upsample to DSD internally? All Delta-Sigma DACs convert PCM to DSD. SACD is a product of Delta Sigma modulation (recorded output of Delta Sigma DAC before filtering) | |
| Toslink cables...do they make a difference? Ahendler, that's true but you can discuss matching between speakers and amplifiers, pre and power amp or compare sound of CDPs or DACs. In case of S/Pdif cable it depends on so many factors that comparison is next to impossible.- Characteristic i... | |
| Toslink cables...do they make a difference? Coax might be better in somebody’s system but another person might have the opposite experience. Toslink might be better when you have long connections, ambient electrical noise or ground loops. Coax might be better when you have system noise. Typ... | |
| 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 ... |