kijanki
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| Do i need a CD player, or can I use Mc Book? Audirvana might improve playback in S/Pdif streaming but does nothing to network playback since data is sent in packets of different size - not in the real time. The fact that Audirvana is caching is absolutely irrelevant with the network connecti... | |
| Do i need a CD player, or can I use Mc Book? Unfortunately RAID does not protect from controller failure, virus, lightning or simply operator's mistake. That's why I keep 2 backup copies instead. Second copy is an additional protection from something bad happening during backup. Also RAID... | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? Why lack of internet updates should affect performance? Performance is always the same if nothing is changing. | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? For many years I'm using Itunes on MacMini (that I use anyway) to play music over WiFi (5GHz) using Airport Express and DAC. It is simple and I never had any problems. Sure if router fails music stops, but the same can happen when CDP fails (it ... | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations xti16, you're welcome. Cutting ground loops is great but Toslink sometimes is worse than coax. It is a system thing. What works for somebody might not work for you. Optical drivers have slow slew rate (transition time) making transition recogn... | |
| Digital cable length- SPDIF vs AES/EBU- 1.5 meter for either? It depends on the transition time. 1m might be perfectly fine with transports that has 15ns transition times. In addition, reflections appear only on impedance boundaries. With a perfect match (rare) there will be no reflections. Very short ca... | |
| Would you be more likely to buy new gear out of state if there was no sales tax AFAIK charging tax on goods bought in another state is against federal law. States charge instead the same tax naming it differently. For instance my state, Illinois, charges "Use Tax" which is tax for using goods bought out of state. Since I d... | |
| USB Cable Testing Grounded shield is more effective against EMI (skin effect). At higher frequencies it is better to ground shield at both ends. USB power is dirty to start with, with or without a shield, and should not be used. EMI induced current in the shield ha... | |
| Should we use ridiculously priced cables to listen to Rap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk | |
| Should we use ridiculously priced cables to listen to Rap? Let me approach this problem from the technical side. Good electrons in your cable, that you paid for, don't really move with AC current but rather vibrate in place (drift velocity). With Rap music these electrons can get bad vibes and stay that... | |
| Who are the most underground high-end companies I've bought wonderful speakers HPS-938 from Hyperion Sound. This company participated in one show, had no advertising at all and very small dealer base. They are deep below the radar today, since they went bankrupt. | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations Al, I bought two of these cables many years ago and still use them today. I've never tried a plastic Toslink but I suspect it would work exactly the same, especially with my jitter supressing DAC. Yes, decisions are often based on anecdotal evide... | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/3ftgltodiauc.html | |
| Best DAC With asynchronous USB DAC computer speed should have zero effect on the sound - since computer is sending data without timing. Faster computer might even have negative effect by creating more of ambient electrical noise. | |
| Should we use ridiculously priced cables to listen to Rap? I use old cheaper cables everytime I play Rap and reinstall good cables when I listen to anything else. |