kijanki
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| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Maplegrovemusic, no I was not referring to you. You presented strawman argument, since people are only sharing their experiences not telling others how much money they have to spend. If anything I found people telling others, that spending money... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable "Who's to say some spool wire at Home Depot will not float someones boat"I agree, for many reasons - poor, non-resolving gear, poor hearing and perception affected by strong belief that all wires sound alike. | |
| Suggest affordable cable options Choose Satori with termination you want. Re-terminating might not be straight forward. It has whole bunch (around 11) of individual solid insulated strands plus one insulated stranded wire, consisting of many very thin strands. My Satori Shotgu... | |
| What's needed with my Macbook Pro to stream music like they do at HI-FI shows? Unless you want your program to alter/process music (like upsampling) playback program should not matter with asynchronous USB since there is no timing in this scheme (data sent in packets).Computer noise is always important since it affect DAC's ... | |
| Suggest affordable cable options +1 on Acoustic Zen Satori. | |
| To Power Condition or Not to Power Condition? Power conditioners often, being filters, limit maximum current reducing dynamics. Most of power supplies consisting of transformer, rectifier and capacitors draw current in short peaks of high amplitude. Any filters' impedance will affect it. ... | |
| Do I really need Desoldering for replacing resistors/caps? Older solder oxidizes and stops wetting leads/pads. In order to obtain good solder joint you need flux. Flux serves two purposes - it cleans surface and prevents oxidation. Flux can be delivered with new solder containing flux or flux syringe. ... | |
| Do I really need Desoldering for replacing resistors/caps? You could get manual desoldering pump for $4.50 or solder wick http://www.parts-express.com/Search.aspx?keyword=solder%20wick&sitesearch=trueKester #66/285 is a proper solder - eutectic Sn63/Pb37 is the best for small electronic parts while 28... | |
| Frequency band of sibilance I had a lot of sibilance with metal dome tweeter. I bought speakers with soft dome tweeter and sibilance disappeared. Sound is still open and midrange is fantastic but all "s" sounds are natural and clean. | |
| Replacing the speakers link with silver wire I use Audioquest "Biwire Jumpers". They come as high purity copper (PSC) gold or silver plated.http://www.amazon.com/SET-4-SILVER-BIWIRE-JUMPERS/dp/B0057FK8RS/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&qid=14568582... | |
| Newbee help- Volume low even at full preamp volume-??? jmcgrogan2, thanks | |
| Newbee help- Volume low even at full preamp volume-??? 65dB = 17780.42mV x 1778 = 0.75V Still low - needs about 8.5dB more to get to standard 2V. Am I missing something? | |
| Do you rely on RAID as your NAS backup? Ozzy, I also keep my "source" drive ON but it goes into sleep mode. Check "Power Options". In Windows 7 hard disk timeout is in "Advanced Settings". | |
| Do you rely on RAID as your NAS backup? Again, RAID is not a backup. It can be destroyed by controller failure, virus, voltage spike, bug in OS or controller software etc. If you use Crashplan you can use it with single drive as well. Crashplan is your backup - not RAID.In addition... | |
| Would someone explain what "up sampling" means and how it can affect the sound? Oversampling - integer multiple of original rateUpsampling - non-integer multiple of original rateFor instance, my Benchmark DAC1 is upsampling (and not the oversampling) DAC, |