minorl
Responses from minorl
| What determines good distortion? You will hear a lot about ss sound and distortions vs tube sound and distortions. First, eliminate the stupid. A well designed and built amp will be wonderful, regardless of whether it is tube or ss. As Jmcgrogan2 stated, ss designs "typically" pr... | |
| CD direct to monobloks? What she said. Digital volume control has no impedance matching vs analog volume control. Listen first to it without a pre-amp. is the resolution and detail what you like? You eliminate a set of interconnect cables and a pre-amp if you go direct. ... | |
| Sota+SME IV=Ugh !!! I own a Sota Saphire vacume turntable with SME IV arm and I have to tell you it absolutely sounds wonderful using the Sumiko Blackbird cartridge. enjoy | |
| Audio Research, next upgrade? I would actually keep the CD3 and get a decent DAC (better than the DAC in the CD3). I bet the CD3 is great as a transport and if any upgrade is needed, it would be the DAC. Also, a REF 3 or REF 5 would be a definite upgrade. But, listen to a REF ... | |
| What is Jazz? read Pat Metheny's response to Kenny G and see for yourself.http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm | |
| the meaning of the word "better" To me better applies to how real or realistic the music sounds. Go to a concert in a small venue and listen. Go to an outdoor concert with drums and band and listen. Then listen to similar sound in your home. Is is even close? Do you get the dynam... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts Thanks Almarg for the response. But you nailed it in your response. "Digital is an approximation" of the analog signal. There will be losses. Up the sampling and scan playback rates significantly, and that minimizes the losses. I just know that wh... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts Thanks Almarg; I wasn't arguing that because digital was sampled it is a more persuasive argument for vinly. Sorry, if I may have giving that impression. I was stating an engineering fact that to sample a signal at a specific sampling frequency ab... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts Learsfool; I like what you wrote.Thanks, | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts Unsound, I absolutely agreement with you. Tmsorosk, "mombo jumbo"? where is this animosity coming from? I was stating basic Electrical Engineering. Nothing else. I never said that you or anyone else wouldn't like their digital system's sound. I ce... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts There are several issues represented here and that is confusing the issues and arguments. Digital vs vinyl. good hearing vs bad or faulty hearing. Etc. lets clear up some things first before really getting into the "is digital or vinyl actuall bet... | |
| Please help me understand I hate to be the boring techno person here, but Bob Carver was right. all electronic circuits have what is called a transfer function that determine what the circuit will do over frequency with specific voltage/current variations. Unless the amps ... | |
| Preamp function. A pre-amp does the following: 1) it amplifies the low level signals from devices to the point where power amplifiers can then take the signal and further amplify it for rated output. 2) it is a control amplifier whereby it has volume control and s... | |
| Is there any truth to this question? Again, with inefficient speakers or speakers that present really difficult loads for amps, one must take that into consideration when purchasing an amp and really review the amps specifications and try them out personally before purchasing. The am... | |
| Is there any truth to this question? Actually, clipping refers to when the amp cannot reproduce the input signal correctly whereby the output waveform is actually and literally "clipped" at the upper signal level. for example, if you have a sine wave input to the amp and the amp clip... |