kijanki
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| Portable Headphone Amp with Wall Charger I bought Oppo HA-2 headphone amp recently and it sounds amazing. It has async USB, SPIDIF, DSD an analog in/out. I use USB. Sounds better than my Benchmark DAC1. D/A converter IC is SABRE 32-bit. It has lithium battery (7-8 hours) and can be used ... | |
| To Variac or not to Variac? Year and a half is not enough time to cause any problems with electrolytic caps IMHO. | |
| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner We use to have, at work, small washer to clean flux off PC boards. It looked like regular dishwasher and used DI water for rinsing. Distilled water was not good enough even for that - we had to buy deionizing columns. DI water that you can purchas... | |
| Do i need a CD player, or can I use Mc Book? Williewonka, assuming that all bits are being sent (bitperfect) without any processing the only thing that can affect sound is jitter. In case of NAS, WiFi or async USB minimizing timing errors made by computer by caching does not make any differ... | |
| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner Why it has to be distilled water? Distilled water is not that clean. Reverse Osmosis water might be cleaner. RO water I make at home has about 4ppm when membranes are new. Deionized water should also be cleaner than distilled and you can buy i... | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? I've been a very bad girl,' she said, biting her lip. 'I need to be punished.' 'Very well,' he said and installed Windows 10 on her laptop. I've never had any experience with Windows 10, but judging by this joke it might be bad (like Vista?). ... | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? Mapman, Yes it is nice feature, but if you’re afraid of any changes to your server then you can do this on the other computer or tablet (or phone). I update my computer/server from internet, since I’m using it as a home computer, and never had any... | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? You're welcome. It is s good decision if your computer is only used for playback. It doesn't change the fact that you still need to make backup in case of any hardware failure. | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? System can work forever without internet access. Software code doesn't change. Unreliable charger is hardware and not the software. People use PC computers controlling production without any access to internet. Many of them still run Windows... | |
| 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... |