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Please help me understand
Dynamics.slew rates. current vs.voltage are some things that come to mind that will affect sound and not distortion figures. 
What's up with all those clocks
In the analogue domain the slogan garbage in will make worse garbage out. Get the best sorce you can and let the chips fall where they may. But digital aint so. My opin is the last clock is the important one. OTOH Steves Offramp I2S seems like a b... 
PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade
Ben maybe my post was not stated correctly. What I was alluding to was the case of uprez ripping then played replayed sans src; vs. a bit perfect rip and uprezed at the dac? Hope thats not too incoherant.Whats your favorite digital cable? 
Cary 805 C or 805 AE?
There is one .22 from input to 300b and a 1.0 bypassed with .22 parallelled with the interstage trans to the output tube. Do you guys change the big cap too? 
845 tubes for Cary 805 AE amplifiers
The 845 graphite is NOT suppose to glow? ? ? Mine glow 15 minutes after I turn the amp off. 
Double Wide AES/EBU
Could that be a segregated clock. Theta did that back in the day with their clock link. PS does it with i2s over hdmi 
Modded Jolida JD100 versus SB Titanium HD computer
The only complaint er only two complaints with the jd100 was when it started skipping one night. First looked at the new AgN sight and found they had screwed up the search engine so I went to the Canuksight and found one close by. When I got up to... 
Cary 805 C or 805 AE?
Hmm Paul "new iron" I remember when VTL went to bifilar As i remember custom to deluxe. They claimed full power bandwidth. When I heard the improvement to my 300s I thought naah, Ill stay right where I'm at. Made a good tube amp sound like an OK s... 
Cary 805 C or 805 AE?
6v into a 1.7v to clip amp? Dac direct? or what pre? 
Speaker stand height
Kitty litter is a kind of open absorbant clay for obvious reasons. The floor leveling that I'm thinking of is pretty dense. Kinda reminds me of finely divided flint rock. 
Speaker stand height
A twenty five pound bag of lead shot weigh pretty close to a twenty five pound bag of copper coated steel BBs but the BBs are a lot more volumnous. Then add floor leveling powder from home center. Now thing will weigh 55lb. ugg 
Cary 805 C or 805 AE?
805c has lower sensitivity then 805ae. So if you are gain scaling your system its an important consideration. I run dac direct with 2.5v coming out of that thing. I wanted the newer amp but would have to digital attenuate too much 
Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use?
PS Audio pwd just installed the mkII board. I now just look at my disk washer with greater disintrest. Albumn art on a 27" screen 
Speaker stand height
Sorry the new AgN just wadded my post . Just sayin rear facing tweeters add a slight delay to the highs instead of drilling you between the eyes. My single drivers dont have too much up high, and the tilt gets the stage up to where you would expec... 
Speaker stand height
Yeah Dave your having fun now, arent ya? I dont have any opin on multi driver arrays or odd pole crossovers, gave that stuff up long ago. I set er sit with my but about eight inches off the floor and my nose about 42 to 45" from the driver cone. W...