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| USB cable..what do you have. Larry_s, cable-induced jitter is a reality. The cable won't "slow down" the bits, like traffic will slow down on a highway. Reflections in non-uniform and ill-terminated cables will change the shape of the signal and that will impact WHEN transiti... | |
| Why not a run high quality USB cable Kijanki, I had the Benchmark and liked it, in general, but I found it to be far from jitter-immune. It responded to different transports and digital interconnects, which tells me that it didn't really knock out jitter.It lowered it though, let's g... | |
| Why not a run high quality USB cable Let's not forget that Larry_s has an async USB DAC, where the clock is not recovered from the input stream and transport and interface jitter don't exist.Kijanki, your friend might still be OK, though, and the low price of the USB cable justifies ... | |
| USB cable..what do you have. As I am using a wyred 4 sound DAC-2 with ASYNCHRONOUS USB, the free cable delivered with the unit is just perfect.With async USB there is no clock signal transferred via the cable, thus transport and interface jitter are non-existent.In such cases... | |
| Has anyone tried Mark Audio cables Isn't the correct name Marc Audio?And shouldn't this be their website, or web page rather?I might take a look in search for more info if I knew where... The above-mentioned home page, if that is their home page, doesn't say all that much.Neverthe... | |
| Best budget $300 Balanced IC Recommendation I am currently breaking-in while thoroughly enjoying a pair of Patrick Cullen's "Cullen Custom XLR interconnects".They sound remarkably good between my W4S DAC-2 and W4S ST-500 power amp. The build quality and appearance are also very good, not on... | |
| Wyred 4 sound MC 5 Give W4S a call at 1 805 237 2113. You'll most likely get to talk to Rick Cullen or EJ Sarmento and if they're not the best to answer your question, nobody is. ;-) | |
| Extending an existing speaker wire You may try to buy two of these http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=260-285 and from them go to the "spare" speakers with two runs of speaker wire. You may terminate them at the other speaker end any way you want, or hook them ... | |
| Confused about gain: phono + pre, or just phono? Usually 1V is the starting input sensitivity of power amps. The ones with loads of power will have higher numbers in here or else you won't get to turn your preamp's volume knob too much before being blasted out of your seat.So I guess that it goe... | |
| Confused about gain: phono + pre, or just phono? My point is that if you "underload" the preamp (load it to 325mV max instead of 500mV max, IF 500mV is its sensitivity) you will get less S/N ratio out of the preamp (less input signal with the same noise floor of the preamp = smaller S/N ratio).Y... | |
| Confused about gain: phono + pre, or just phono? My answer was only looking at the mere numbers and factoring in the main principle that, considering the noise floor of any amplification stage, loading it in its optimal zone will improve the S/N signal to noise ratio.Thus there is no fundamental... | |
| Confused about gain: phono + pre, or just phono? I might be wrong, but usually the preamps have 500mV input sensitivity, which will mean 66dB of gain required for the phono stage to bring 0.25mV to 500mV.Going 62 dB instead will load the pre with 315mV at the input instead of 500mV.Of course, th... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound DAC1 or DAC2? My digital front end journey was not as long or high-end as others'.Music Hall MMF CD25, then opamp upgrades to the CD player, then Music Hall Maverick, then Benchmark DAC1, then PS Audio DLII with stage IV Cullen mods and now W4S DAC2. I've had b... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound DAC1 or DAC2? I know that this is off topic, for it doesn't concern the differences between DAC-1 and DAC-2, but I feel compelled to write about the DAC-2 and don't want to start a new thread.Maybe this will help someone.As it breaks-in, DAC-2 improves a lot, b... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound DAC1 or DAC2? Happybob, The main issue, when trying to answer your question, is that, as I wrote in this thread, I first sold and then bought. Thus I couldn't A/B PS Audio and W4S DACs on equal basis. The moment I got the DAC-2, DL3 and the preamp were gone.Nev... |