shadorne
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| Does the Transport make a significant difference? If the DAC is excellent at jitter rejection then it won't make a difference (one jitter immune input versus another should sound the same as it is all just bits). If the DAC is less than perfect at jitter rejection then it could matter. So your re... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers I did some digging around. JBL use this Vandersteen idea in their K2 speaker. As you are probably aware capacitors vary in quality and linearity. If you bias a polypropylene cap then the distortion products (due to non-linearity) will still be the... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers I have thought a bit more about it and since a battery typically has about 1.7 ohms of internal resistance and since it must be part of the circuit somehow then you may need to worry about it. A leaky or corroded battery or a change in the battery... | |
| Preamplifier power supply Or would that be confusing good food with all you can eat melamine? | |
| Beatles Without George Martin? It is not unrealistic to speculate that they might never have been anything more than a local, cult band lost in the rest of the British invasion if George Martin had not "discovered" them and guided their development. I quite agree. A good coach... | |
| Paradigm Studio 100 v1 Tweeter Swap Success Thank you for posting, very interesting read! Right now I feel I know just enough to be dangerous, definitely have a lot of learning to do yet. LOL! Me too! FWIW: thanks for the reply - it is nice to see people who share - so many people take wha... | |
| Preamplifier power supply How about the local Chinese buffet? What you mean the new Mission, Quad, Wharfedale, Tag McLaren and AudioLab speakers?Or would that be confusing China with cheaper? LOL | |
| One sub, a two channel system ,one HT reciever ?? I was a Quad dealer for over 20 years and of course they are famous for distorted sound. Do I detect some tongue-in cheek?I would add that anyone with a typical modern system where it is often difficult to hear dialogue on movies without jacking ... | |
| Ever had a "Promotional Copy" surprise your ears? Michael Jackson's demo "Don't want to be starting something" is worth a listen for curiosity. (Bro and sis help out - even using a bottle for percussion) | |
| To DAC or not to DAC... Think of the modded Benchmark as a double the price Apogee wannabee, lol. I agree. If you don't like the precision of Benchmark and want something more "musical" then why buy a benchmark and mod it? Lavry DA10 is another less precission sounding ... | |
| recapping crossovers....do or don't? See this mention of MIT multi-caps from DIY'ers. Not recommended. Bear in mind this is a precision audio crowd who like Tannoys and SET amps (precision is desired and smooth is shunned - I don't know what side of the fence you are on but it is the... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers I am not sure what caps are used but any high voltage signal path application for caps generally requires high quality caps.Most speakers use high quality polypropylene caps for the crossover ($5 to $10) as do Vandersteens (I think) - these do not... | |
| History on ohm A's and F's. See "This Side of Paradise" and "All Our Yesterdays" for an emotion filled Vulcan. Ah yes you are right. I kind of meant in general though. The T'pau episode (Amok Time) also seemed quite emotional for our logical hero too - he sure seemed happy ... | |
| One sub, a two channel system ,one HT reciever ?? Rolling off their bass may enable them to play louder but when I have tried it I found the benefits mostly theoretical and the drawbacks obvious. One of the obvious problems from removing copious amount of bass distortion is that you can now hear... | |
| Preamplifier power supply Actually, no, that is not what I'm suggesting at all.We agree then on that aspect - good. Do not mistake quantity for quality, they both start with the letter "Q", but are very different. Sorry, my bad. Don't confuse smaller with cheaper. How si... |