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| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality If I used the MAC would that be with 1/8” to RCAs? Or over ethernet to the AVR? (And does it work on an Intel NUC as a Roon server?) On the MacBook (laptop) the IES goes into a power supply which plugs into the computer as a DC source. SO flip th... | |
| Best USB port on a late 2012 Mac mini I use one and will not change. A 2012 Core i7 2.3 GHz machine with 16GB of RAM is an amazing music server when running dB Audio Labs software. The USB port on the opposite end of the IEC power inlet is the one to use. If you have not tried this ... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality We were in a self-imposed quarantine from the digital highway and I just saw the posts. It was glorious... I wanted to comment on this post: "So I guess the inclusion of the video is implicitly meant to convey that your gear was not measurable a... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Uhm, no. Not what I said. Basically, BS walks, money (as in returns) talks. With video, blacks are blacker, color saturation is visibly more even and image demarcation (image edges) are sharper. Eyes tell the truth that sometimes ears can’t hear.... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Holmz - system noise is a lot like the Joni Mitchell lyrics " ...you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone..." Until I recently retired I produced an electrical line filter oriented to the audio/video industry: the UberBUSS, along with other... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality You can, use a sensitive multimeter (4-1/2 digit) for an absolute value that can be converted to dB, or a good, sensitive audio measurement system like REW to listen to the speaker in a close-miked manner... usually at the tweeter since this is w... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality The holy war continues... | |
| Fascinated By GR Research Channel "I've watched a few on recommendation. Mostly rubbish for the ignorant." ieales: coming out from under the bridge, eh? There are reasons the GR Research rooms at RMAF were constantly receiving Best of show comments from reviewers like Steven ... | |
| Do good power cords have to be stiff? Triode Wire Labs. Pete's cables are flexible, but more importantly sound great. Open, transparent with tremendous PRAT. | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing This is not unusual in audio. It often happens when the noise floor is reduced. The micro dynamics and micro detail - reverb tails, high frequency detail instead of white noise, differences in timbre, subtle mouth and throat noises... you know: ... | |
| Driver breakin period, what’s the science? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odzMj5Csrxc | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ The GR Research high sensitivity speakers are, in a word, stunning. I had a pair of the old Super V's. Then a pair of Wedgies on top of 2x12 open baffle servo subs (flat to 20Hz at brutal levels). I'm getting ready to build a pair of NX-Tremes.... | |
| Living with unsolvable hum - Any audio detectives out there? I have found that most elusive hum is due to DC components that tide on AC. Unfortunately it can come from just about anywhere in your local grid - basically anyone connected to your shared power utility transformer. It can come from your next d... | |
| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? As a manufacturer I can honestly say yes...and no. Ethical manufacturers price their cables with a nod to materials cost, hardware cost, build time and...here is the kicker... amortizing out the hours, days, weeks, months and sometimes years spen... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital Slim to none. That is not relevant to the conversation. What matters is timing and the integrity of the square wave. Ringing and overshoot are responsible for most error correction, then data dropouts |