kijanki
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| 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... | |
| Strange Oscillation Falconquest, I just checked - it is clean. I used high volume on headphones and speakers. There is a lot of sibilants, more vivid with headphones, but still clean. 5:19 high voice note is very clean. You could clean laser with laser cleaning CD... | |
| Strange Oscillation I have Cafe Blue, standard CD and cannot hear any high pitch vocal. In fact, it is the one of the best recorded CDs used for demo in many stores. Can you point to particular song, minutes, seconds?Vibrapods might protect CDP from vibrating shelve... | |
| What is RED copper & Eutectic Copper speaker cable connectors...??? RHODIUM... What is Eutectic Copper? AFAIK term "Eutectic" applies only to alloys.. | |
| Audirvana 2.x Upgrade Benefits AFAIK VLINK192 is asynchronous USB to S/PDIF converter. Since S/PDIF clock is completely separated from the computer timing, then the only way that playback program can affect the sound is by processing (upsampling etc.), unless there was some s... | |
| Best solo piano recording...redbook CDs only...Jazz, easy listening, piano bar Charles Mingus - "Mingus Plays Piano" |