roberjerman
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| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality Even the first-generation CD players had jitter levels below 1 nanosecond! What they didn't have (in the first year or two) was full 16-bit capability. Typically 14-15 bits, due to DAC-chip (ladder-type) architecture. This only reduced noise-floor... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality Jitter below 1 nanosecond is inaudible and not a problem with any of today's CD players/DACs. Regardless of what the "golden ear" crowd claims! And asynchronous DACs (with their re-clocking of the input signal) eliminate jitter (uncertainty of the... | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? Again, to passive bi-amp (bi-wire) each speaker needs two pairs of connectors (with jumpers) on the back. This allows separation of the internal x-over into low and mid-high frequencies. I doubt the RTi A7's have this! | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? Want to hear a "different" sound from your speakers? Get a tube amp with high output impedance (over 1 ohm). Like a Prima Luna (output impedance of 8 ohms!). Or a single-end tube amp (low power and 3%+ distortion!). | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? I doubt that you will be able to hear any qualitative difference between the sound of the Denon vs. the Yamaha. All modern electronics have been pretty much sonically equivalent for the past 20+ years or so! Regardless of what the "golden ear" cro... | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? I have bi-amped two pairs of speakers successfully using an active crossover. Splitting the signal into bass and mid-high frequencies. One pair of speakers for bass, one pair for mids and highs.The active x-over allowed for gain adjustments for th... | |
| Setting up 2 power amplifiers to setup at once help? Bi-amping (really bi-wiring without an active crossover) will only work with two identical stereo amps (with equal gain). I don't think it will have any significant advantage over, say, using a pair of mono amps. In your case, with two different a... | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? If I had to go to live on a desert island and could only take a pair of speakers I could only carry with my two hands: my Rogers LS3/5A's! A TRUE legend! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? Fidelity Research FR1mk3F. Sold new for $230 in 1980! At that time probably the best sounding mc below the price of the Koetsu ($1K). I had several FR1's! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? @weebeesdad I have the first production BEL 1001 made! Serial number 0001. How's that for rarity! It is indeed an amp deserving of resurrection! All sound - no bling (unlike present day high end gear!). | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? I never bought one because I consider it Flat Earth science - like most tweaks! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? They can still be found for sale used! | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? John Bedini made and sold the CD Demagnitizer. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. There are several Russian sellers on EBay that claim to have military (OTK) grade 12AX7's made circa '80 at Saratov. The prices are astonishingly low! I am tempted to buy a quartet. If I remember right, I might have bought a quartet of 6L6's from ... | |
| Stereophile Magazine question. HiFi News and HiFi World do measuring. But being in the UK their subscription price to the USA is rather high! About $90! I used to buy them regularly when I lived near a Barnes&Noble. Along with HiFi +. |