seandtaylor99
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| Altis DAP Reference Bitstream Decoder Great answer. Preemphasis is the process whereby certain frequencies are boosted and others are cut, just as happens with LPs. Deemphasis then puts the playback through an inverse filter to restore the flat frequency response. In LPs the filter cu... | |
| Top Audio Designers Of All Time? Jon Bau for making inexpensive speakers that cast a three dimensional sound.Roy Gandy for inexpensive, high performance turntables.These guys helped to bring hifi to the masses (if only the masses were more receptive !) | |
| Philips CDM9Pro CD transport drawer mechanism Have you contacted TagMclaren audio .. they bought out audiolab. www.tagmclarenaudio.com | |
| Proac 1.5 cabinet repair help Perhaps find a local antique restorer (either directly or through a shop). Some restorers work minor miracles on old furniture, and I'm sure could fix a speaker. | |
| direct drive vs. belt drive? Search the archives. Most seem to prefer belt drives, a minority prefer direct drives.If you have specific tables in mind then tell us what they are ... you question as stated is too broad. There are very good and very poor examples of either desi... | |
| What makes an interconnect sound like it does? Impedance matching ? The impedances are supposed to be mismatched (low output impedance, high input impedance). An RCA interconnect should transfer voltage, not current.However if the source has an unusually high output impedance, and the destinat... | |
| Capacitors: Who is Right? What ages them faster? My educated guess is that none of 1, 2, or 3 are correct, and that what really causes cap aging is thermal cycling. Krells tend to run hot (never owned one, but they have huge heatsinks for a reason), so this might shorten the life.Leaving equipme... | |
| Differences in CD players? Am I crazy? I'd say your observations are similar to mine. Digital sources don't vary greatly, and their differences are perceptible only on quite a resolving system, unless you have a really terrible cheap source.If I were to greatly upgrade my system I thin... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's Hey all .. found this interesting link ....http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jcgl/Scots_Guide/iandm/part12/page1.htmlIt blurs the distinction between digital and vinyl in an interesting way | |
| Real "Bookshelf" speaker 4 bookshelf or wall-mount Agree with Rich and Warren, but if you must use shelves then spendor s3/5s ca work quite well. They're sealed and have a nice tonal balance when stuck against a wall.Of course they're better out into the room a bit, but at least they sound OK on t... | |
| What seperates "hi-fi" from "mid-fi" in cdp's? Your ears matter. Everything else should be treated as marketing. That's not to say that a 24 bit DAC is better or worse than an 18bit DAC, but who the hell cares what DAC chip a player uses if it sounds terrible to your ears in your system.I'd sh... | |
| It's No Fun Being a Guru Anymore It will probably be clear within the first minute of talking to them whether sound quality is of interest. If it is offer to demo your system to make them aware of what a real hifi sounds like ... most people have no idea that hifi can sound real ... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's So having said that the theory may not be conclusive, and that the implementation may be the key I would guess that redbook CD would store a more accurate copy of a recording than vinyl.Now here's my getout clause: I'm somewhat familiar with the i... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's I guess I should be clear that the point of my post is to say "That's a very complex question with an extremely complex answer, and I really don't know enough to know the answer". However I do know that there isn't a simple answer, so don't let an... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's As with most engineering problems the answer does not lie in the underlying theory, but in the ability to best implement an approximation to the theory. These threads always get caught up in various misunderstandings of Nyquists sampling theory, q... |