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| Ideal Pre Amp for Bryston 3B ST or 4B SST 2 12-07-10: Bob_reynoldsPaperw8, I agree with your comment regarding synergy in general, but proper impedance matching between a preamp and amp is a very real concern when mixing products from different manufacturers. It typically involves mixing di... | |
| Most sophisticated and intelligent musician i would say that there are a lot of musicians who are highly intelligent but on paper i guess i would go with kris kristofferson (phi beta kappa, rhodes scholar, &c). | |
| Ideal Pre Amp for Bryston 3B ST or 4B SST 2 12-07-10: RrogThe ideal preamp for your Bryston amp is a Bryston preamp.there is not particular reason why this statement should be true: to the amplifier, a signal is a signal. there is no technical reason why a bryston amplifier will work better... | |
| Ideal Pre Amp for Bryston 3B ST or 4B SST 2 asking someone else what equipment sounds good is like asking someone what painting looks good: you end up with someone else's perspective with no idea of whether you would think the same. i've had a bryston 4bst and bryston bp-20 for a dozen year... | |
| balanced vs. unbalanced sound quality to a certain extent it is almost pointless to ask other people what might sound good to you. while the quality of sound of balanced vs. unbalanced inputs is dependent upon the quality of the components as pointed out in another reply, from my pers... | |
| Can temperature fluctuations affect audio gear? 12-05-10: MagfanElizabeth,You could make a decent case for me being about 1/2 gene away from washing my hands 30 times a day.Heat DOES kill electronics, no question about it. The devices most prone to heat effects are power devices, which obviousl... | |
| Can temperature fluctuations affect audio gear? some owner's manuals say that you should allow equipment and tubes to warm to room temperature before using themi use solid state devices only so i am not familiar with such advice. the thought that comes to my mind is that the reason why the make... | |
| Wadia S7i direct to amp 12-05-10: AlmargI haven't taken the time to read through most of this thread, but I'll just say with respect to the quoted comments that neither is correct.A 3db reduction in power corresponds to a 3db reduction in voltage, for a given impedance. ... | |
| Wadia S7i direct to amp 12-05-10: Bombaywallawrong! a 3dB reduction in POWER corresponds to a 6dB reduction in VOLTAGE.unlike much of the subjective discussion in this forum, this is a factual matter; your *opinion* on the matter is irrelevent to the actual *facts*. | |
| Wadia S7i direct to amp 12-04-10: Bombaywallawrong! every 6dB (i.e. every 12 steps) is halving of the voltage amplitude. You correctly wrote that the digital amp works in the voltage domain & not the power domain but you did not understand that concept fully.actually... | |
| Wadia S7i direct to amp 12-04-10: Bombaywallayes, Paperw8, thanks for taking the time to explain this to me but I already understand the concepts of DSP. I agree that (100-65)*0.5 = 17.5dB, which you are rounding up to 18dB. I seem to have 1 issue in your calculations - ... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? i measured the capacitance of the tonearm cable by disconnecting the cable from the cartridge terminals and measuring capacitance at the +/- leads of the rca connector with a multimeter.this discussion has become badly confused. the tonearm cable ... | |
| Wadia S7i direct to amp 12-03-10: BombaywallaOK, I see that I am right & you are also right - after upsampling (marketing verbage used by Wadia is "resolution enhancement") the word length is 24 bits (which is what I wrote) & then, after processing by DigiMaster ... | |
| State of the art CD player? Only if you do this. 12-03-10: Onhwy61Recording studios don't control the format music gets released in. Record companies, artists and/or retailers do. So why don't these entities release master tapes? Probably the same reason Google doesn't publish it's search engine... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? 12-03-10: MoonglumThanks for that Paperw8.....I'm currently using a load of 220 with the PS0.3r and it sounds pretty good even though I'm still running in the cart, but you've intrigued me so I will try something approaching the 470 setting.you'll... |