mikhailark
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| Help me pick a new desktop speaker Airpulse. I like their ribbon tweeters. I own A80. | |
| Pass Lab Amp questions, back of amps, power cable & 12v trigger. @jsd52756 - 12V trigger is not odd. It is commonly used by many manufacturers to coordinate equipment operation. Very common in HT systems where multiple components must be turned on and off from a single remote. Usually preamp or receiver is sour... | |
| Looking for a DAC to pair w/ Jay's transport mk2 Denafrips is a bargain, it plays well above its price. I bought Venus but then upgraded to Terminator. | |
| Check This Out! How do you compare it to Denafrips Terminator? Same tech and parts. | |
| Check This Out! @grannyring I guess something like this https://jypwr.com/products/jy-power-nxt-2kf-2000-farad-hybrid-capacitor | |
| Check This Out! @grannyring - I am pretty sure that's 2000 MICRO farads. | |
| Aurender N200 Streamer Are you using coaxial out or USB? | |
| Voltage conversion on Accuphase DP900-DC901 I would just buy plain 220 to 100V transformer. Devices are not power amps where current limit may be an issue. Just make sure transformer is rated at least 2x times rated power consumption. Make sure it is just a transformer and not some sort of ... | |
| What software has good sound quality? DSP, sure. But otherwise the process is no different from copying file to an external USB hard drive. You can write copying code any way you want, but the result of the transfer is going to be an identical file. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? Only if you use coax from streamer to DAC where jitter begins to matter. Otherwise all PCs are identical. CPU does not care if power is linear or switching. Internet does not tell of this is audio, video, jpeg or a Word file, all sent the same way... | |
| Synergistic Research UEF Ethernet Switch Rip off. Ethernet does not lose any bits and neither it has jitter. Network operation is identical if this is sound or an Excel spreadsheet. Net does not tell between data types. | |
| What software has good sound quality? Frankly, all of them reads file and send data down the USB. Unclear to my why would they sound any different. Unless it is measurable that data down the chain comes different. But if it differs from the file, the software has a huge bug. | |
| Why is an iPhone such a good streamer? Because actually iPhone CPU is way, way more powerful than those puny ARM chippies in streamers. And remember - iPhone does not have AC power supply, it is battery powered and does not need any 'linear' power supplies. | |
| Soundsmith cartridges on Rega tables ?? I use SoundSmith Zephyr MIMC cartridge on Rega P6. You will need to raise tonearm via shim AND purchase different counterbalance. SoundSmith is too heavy for Rega standard weight and too tall for Rega tonearm. My phono stage is Pass XP-12. | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? @devinplombier - very, very few people understand how digital interfaces work. It is easier to understand spdif/toslink with all its jitter and whatnot, but explain USB or Ethernet... good luck. I often feel people believe there is an actual "stre... |