shadorne
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| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil It makes a huge difference. Everyone who sees your setup can realize you are absolutely passionate about audio and anyone who has any science background will know you are just plain foolish about your hobby. | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? @charles1dad "I don’t believe that you can accurately apply a rigid cost ratio amongst audio components when constructing a system, far too many variables and exceptions to account for."Agreed. My ratios were a rough guideline rather than a rule t... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? @dla123 Don’t believe the hype. Firstly your speakers do not merit anything like that kind of expenditure. Ratio of $ expenditure should be more like Speakers 10, Amp 2, Source 1. So consider a $10K DAC merits $100K ball park on speakers. My speak... | |
| Denafrips Terminator R2R Multibit, ultimate pcm redbook converter?? @kclone It depends on the particular DACs you are comparing but let’s say early Delta Sigma implementations had a reputation for hashy highs or digital glare. Recent implementations like the Benchmark series of DACs sound very clean articulate and... | |
| ATC ACTIVE VS PASSIVE I turn them on just for music - I have not noticed a warm up period but it would take an hour or so to fully warm the massive heat sinks. They do run warm but nowhere near as hot as a Bryston 4B SST just idling (Class AB). Each amp drives only one... | |
| F. Alton Everest's Master Handbook of Acoustics vs. Floyd Toole's Sound Reproduction? +1 Everest's book | |
| Denafrips Terminator R2R Multibit, ultimate pcm redbook converter?? @kclone R2R requires a ladder of very highly matched resistors as each 16 or 24 bit data point (at whatever the sample rate) is decoded to a discrete voltage from the ladder.The advantage is no conversion of the digital data.The disadvantage is t... | |
| ATC ACTIVE VS PASSIVE @sm2727 I believe ATC actives are biased Class A to 2/3 power. So they are Class A for the most part.They are dated - discrete components and easy to repair and only minor tweaks over 30 years. Part of the appeal is that ATC got it right from th... | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? High priced speaker is not necessarily high fidelity. RCA is a crap connection but you find it everywhere because it is cheap and convenient even if it is inferior to XLR | |
| I have spica angelus speakers, how do I know when the cross over needs rebuilding? Tweeter dead or ferro fluid dried out? | |
| 802d or 800d I propose a third answer - neither. The measurements on both these speakers are fortunately published in Stereophile and they are not at all world class for such an expensive speaker. Basically a boosted treble and boosted bass with a mid range su... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? I should add that current leading converters use very many parallel 1 bit Delta Sigmas to reduce SN. This eliminates the major drawback of a Delta Sigma 1 bit converter. The linearity and consequently low THD is the major advantage of Delta Sigma ... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? It is well known that the optical reader of a CD is motorized. It has been shown that oscillations in this motor (as it attempts to read a spinning disc) can induce via these fluctating power supply demands a subsequent spurious jitter in the CD p... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? @teo_audio I am am aware that R2R DACs are impossibly expensive - this is because they are trying to compete with the latest 21 bit resolution of Delta Sigma and the technology is limited by the ability to build a resistor ladder to such high ac... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? Several 1000 CD ripped to a hardrive using iTunes about 10 years ago. Some HD tracks hi resolution material. More recently Tidal. I like the way I can sync my iPhone and get a compressed lossy version of my complete catalog for the car.I discovere... |