redkiwi
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| New Meridian 596 CD/DVD? For goodness sake listen first Mezmo. I, for one, seem to be the odd one out and do NOT like any of the latest Meridian one box or two box players. The 508 particularly lacks pace and has a congealed upper-mid and lower treble which smooths over b... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Multiply that by 16 bits per word Gmkowal. I guess for the fourth time, the issue is not dropping bits, but that timing errors (not bit errors) cause harmonic distortion at the output of the DAC chip. Your investigations should focus on this pheno... | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? Waldhorner, if you have ever bought anything new and not heard it change over time then you and I will agree on at least one thing - we live in different worlds. | |
| DO AUDIOPHILES EVER LISTEN TO MUSIC? In answer to the question - I listen to music (this is as opposed to evaluating the system) on my system for between one hour and three hours every day - this is me sitting in the listening seat, sometimes reading. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I am not sure we are disagreeing - over and undershoot being a capacitance issue, is the same thing as saying it is a bandwidth issue (but not necessarily the reverse). So far as I know there is no capacitance issue wrt glass cables, but they soun... | |
| The best Neutral Power cord ? I too wonder whether neutral is really the best term. To me the issue is that power cords do something to reduce the grain structure that mains-borne noise imposes on our music, and also alter the grain structure. When the grain structure finds ha... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I think I am repeating myself, but continue to get replies which imply that the only reason why digital cables could sound different is bit errors. This is not the reason at all - the reason is jitter - noise-based and time-based distortion. The p... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? You make a mistake if you think that just transmitting the bits accurately is all that is required. Jitter (or time-based distortion) is irrelevant when there is no need for time syncronous transmission - ie. computer communications. But in audio ... | |
| What are U using? Coax,ATT,XLR?? I like the AT&T connection, but they do not all sound the same, in fact you have to be very careful to find a good one. Audioquest make (or should I say, have selected)a goodie. The beauty of AT&T is more dynamics and detail, and you elimi... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? First - the digital datastream carried on a coax connection is an analogue signal, albeit used to represent 1's and 0's. Second - I have never seen a signal coming out of one of these cables on a scope that is a perfect square wave. Third - lack o... | |
| Hidden Audiophile Classics Steve Poltz - One Left Shoe. Never heard anyone else mention it. | |
| Natural sound (REL Subwoofers) The input impedence of the speaker-level inputs to the REL is way way above the speaker's impedence, and so high that current delivery is just not an issue, and extraordinarily easy for your amp to deal with. Therefore the cable requirements are q... | |
| electrostatic with detail? I don't disagree with much that has been said, and particularly agree with Johnsonwu. In particular, MLs are very fussy as regards setup. Poorly setup they usually sound indistinct from the mids on up. They MUST be firmly spiked to the floor. You ... | |
| Can I convert my 4ohm speaker to 8ohms? Keis is right - universal truths are rare in this field. Try them together and see what it sounds like. I run my 4 ohm speakers from the 8 ohm tap of my tube amps and the result is better than any other amp I have tried. And what is really importa... | |
| meridian power cord upgrade I have a friend that owns a local wire plant. As a result I can get just about any cable configuration made up for me (as long as I don't do it too often). But I enlisted him in an experiment to find an ideal power cable. We tried a lot of things ... |