shadorne
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| 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... | |
| Burn-in question If you believe in burn in then there is no logical reason to think that it will ever stop - so might as well call it drift or premature aging or poor temperature stability or early electrical break down. (Unlike mechanical vehicles with friction o... | |
| Best interconnect burn-in method @rodman99999 Dielectric is important (it can add capacitance or store voltage as you point out) but not relevant when it comes to audio frequencies over distances of a living room. Air is ideal for speaker cables - so they just need an insulating ... | |
| Best interconnect burn-in method @rodman99999 Sorry but as usual by conflating different areas of electrical wave propagation science less than honest promoters are able to confuse ordinary folks out of large sums of money for meaningless so called performance improvements. Diele... | |
| Did you know....? Russell Crowe is a musician and good buddies with Alan Doyle of Canadian band Great Big Sea. They often play together with Russel joining the band. As a return favor Russel had Alan Doyle act in his movie Robin Hood. | |
| Did you know....? Stewart Copeland's brother was nicknamed Leroy Coolbreeze when he served in Vietnam. | |
| High Quality bi-amp-able full range speakers - choices? IB2S is an ATC three way clone but with a transmission line instead of a reflex port. I think they get someone else not ATC to make their midrange (I read somewhere that Volt makes it for them) - it is a great speaker and a good option. |