shadorne
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| Which matters more, DAC or transport? The idea of splurging on a DA then buying a cheap transport, is foolish. Foolish if the DAC is unable to handle incoming jitter (most DAC's unfortunately). Not foolish provided the DAC is specifically designed to be able to reject incoming jitter... | |
| Your favorite cd of Hammond B-3 organ ? Some great "Four-on-the-floor" stuff She Breaksand Pound it OutEnjoy! | |
| Trying to sharpen the vocals...EQ related question Check your DSP settings on the Marantz - perhaps it is doing some processing that is messing things up.... | |
| Beatles Remasters: Mono vs. Stereo Debate Thread Lucked out and managed to pick up a mono box set today. Cool - let us know your thoughts. My box set has not even shipped... | |
| "Get Better Sound" The standard $150 paperback version is good but the text is a little jittery on this version - I compared it to other similar publications and it appears built at a specific price point for run-of-the-mill audiophiles (by all means go for it if yo... | |
| Totem model 1: woofer rubber stiff -- Slight buzz Rubbing voice coil is your problem. They were probably over-driven. All you can do is re-cone (if there is a kit available) or replace the drivers. $500 for two drivers is cheap - so why not just replace them... | |
| Is this clipping or just high SPL? Will high end speakers on high end amps all pretty much start to congest at these 100-105 DB ranges? At 2 meters from the speaker - yes absolutely. Soundstage will not even test speakers at 100 db SPL as most would get damaged - see quote below f... | |
| Is this clipping or just high SPL? As Linkwitz states, in the article I referred to,"the large low frequency voice coil displacements can cause large amounts of intermodulation distortion products near the high frequency signal due to the large low frequency variation of Le(x)." A ... | |
| Is this clipping or just high SPL? Do you have an SPL meter? How loud was it? If it was above 100 db SPL then you might be "pushing" your speakers too much.See this article Unreasonably large distortion in midrange drivers. You can see that it gets bad above 105 db SPL.The main iss... | |
| Is this clipping or just high SPL? Are you referring to "Time"?If this is what you are referring to then it is likely you are over-driving the tweeter or midrange or both on your speakers...that track is beautifully clean apart from deliberate distortion on the lead guitar and some... | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Looks like Andy bought the vacation plan instead of speakers. Yeah - that was my point - he announces himself as a rabid audiophile launches two threads and then "poof he disappears.... | |
| Ripping to Mac OSX Don't use WAV - you will lose album info...I'd use AIFF or Apple Lossless. Check Benchmark DAC1 wiki guide for iTunes setup (settings for bit transparent playback) and keep checking regularly in case a big crops up with a new iTunes version (you'l... | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Andy,What did you buy? Of course, if you are one of the many audiophiles who are happy to solicit some help but prefer not to share anything back then I understand. | |
| Tight accurate midfield monitor pair suggestions I've not heard them but the design is rather odd (five tweeters) ...weird... a novelty perhaps? | |
| Is this clipping or just high SPL? Probably distortion somewhere - most likely clipping with the amp. When it sounds either loud or congested at higher SPL but fine at lower levels then it can be either the power amp or the speakers. (speakers do not clip but they rapidly run out o... |