seandtaylor99
Responses from seandtaylor99
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? I think it's important to distinguish the different types of "computer audio".The DAC might be on the sound card. I see this being a bad idea for reasons of noise.It might stream SPDIF : this is also a bad idea for reasons of noise.It might be str... | |
| Speaker disappearing act? I agree wit S7horton, and I think it applies to all audio components. The best ones are the ones you "don't hear", and you know it when you hear it. If you know what I mean :-) | |
| Impedance???? Jim, I highly, highly doubt it could ever damage the amps: there's just not enough power coming out of a preamp to do damage. Perhaps a really terribly designed preamp might fail.To comment on whether the sound might change I'd have to know the ou... | |
| Talon-New owner-NO customer service "The original owner says it is still under warrenty! "From Rives:"we bought the assetts to Talon Audio Technologies. The transaction was similar to a bankruptcy sale, in that we did only buy the assetts. Thus technically all speakers made prior to... | |
| Impedance???? I think you're worrying too much.You don't have to match the preamp and amp impedance, in fact quite the opposite. The output impedance of the preamp has to be low (few hundred ohms or less), and the input impedance of the amp has to be high (10k ... | |
| Impedance???? Jim, If you split a preamp output into two poweramp inputs then the preamp sees the poweramp load in parallel.When two equal impedances are put in parallel the resulting impedance is halved.So running a "Y" type splitter from a preamp to two power... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? "So, for now, I guess this is the question: is the average computer really putting out an inferior signal to that of the transport section of a good CD transport?"I think the key here is to define "inferior", and specifically "inferior in a way th... | |
| Best way to clean CD player lens? If it's playing CDs fine, and not skipping I'd leave it alone. I view cleaning CD lenses as a last resort, almost as likely to break something as fix it, and I only do it if my players are having problems reading discs. | |
| Impedance???? First question: impedance of what ? There are lots of impedances through the chain of a hifi.Second question: Why ? What problem are you trying to solve ? | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? The computer serves only to provide readable 1s and 0s, and evidently, despite their "noiseball" characteristics PCs are perfectly capable of reading 1s and 0s from CD roms, and hard-drives and streaming them over ethernet or USB without a single ... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Drubin, to me the Altmann article just says that you have to minimize the sample clock jitter at the DAC chip. It doesn't infer that this is better done via a one-box, multi-box, or computer design. | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Thanks Steve. | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Cics, what computer programs are available that would allow you to rip, upsample, and potentially word extend and dither redbook CDs ? It seems like an interesting direction to go in. | |
| REL is dead. Long live REL Suplerfly, I own a REL strata 3. It sounds pretty good to me, but I've not compared it directly with any other sub.However, many people on a UK hifi board I visit seem to like the Velodyne DD series subs with the built in equalization, and feel th... | |
| Talon-New owner-NO customer service Whoever said "The customer is always right" never dealt with real customers ! |