shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Long Coaxial audio run? Undertow,I think you are right on. I use five megachangers to feed a DAC for a total cost that is still way less than that of a high end player. The sound is probably 9/10ths as good but most important is that I get to hear my music instead of fig... | |
| Correction of room acoustics. E-traps? Kr4,Perhaps I am a bit overzealous compared to most people on distortion. For example, I would like an acoustic drum set or a double bass to sound like well er actually an acoustic drum set or a double bass - and not something else altogether diff... | |
| Correction of room acoustics. E-traps? How can the E-trap add audible distortion at higher frequencies when (1) it is not in the signal path and (2) it is sharply frequency limited by design? Good question.(1) It is in the signal path in the sense that it is making acoustically audibl... | |
| Long Coaxial audio run? Undertow,Yes and No. In theory Yes. In practice sometimes NO - as the bursts required for USB operation may feedback through the power supply to make the DAC inside the USB device more jittery than an equivalent AES/EBU or Toslink setup. Unfortuna... | |
| Long Coaxial audio run? Is USB effected by all this "Jitter" for example a laptop connected to a USB Dac with like a 15 foot USB Cable etcÂ…? No it should not be - USB is sending "data" without a timing signal. Jitter has no affect on data. You can copy a CD a million ti... | |
| slow, funky, groovin' laid back music Medeski Martin Wood - Shack-man | |
| Why do dealers do this? If you tell them you moved to a new bigger house and need a new system they will jump all over you. If you tell them your just kicking tires and you are honest and say you just want to hear something out of curiosity you will usually be ignored. T... | |
| Beatles Without George Martin? LOL - you are just discovering what is behind the music!!!Arrangers and session musicians like Brian Purdie or great producers like Daniel Lanois, Arif Marden etc. It is these musical talents behind the scenes that put the shine on the "poster kid... | |
| Best Monitor Speaker? Energy make great value products often sounding well above their price point peers. I second the above RC-10 suggestion.If you look very carefully you might find a pair of old B&W N805 for just under $1000... | |
| Correction of room acoustics. E-traps? This can be much more effective than passive traps ( at least 10 and probably around 100 times more effective than passive broadband absorbers for equivalent size ). Special specific tuned tubes traps with helmoholtz tuned resonance will not be ab... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? Humps are 50Hz on left channel and 40Hz and 70Hz on right channel, quite severe, somewhere around 8dB That is actually not bad at all, IMHO. If you tried to hammer that all flat then I am not surprised that it might not pass for an improvement. O... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? Sashav.PMC used ATC midrange in the past. PMC are absolutely excellent speakers. I think they use Volts on the woofers but the design is similar to ATC but with more bass (TL design). If you already own PMC then I am not surprised you heard no rea... | |
| Random pop sounds in my system are scaring me Snap Crackle and Pop? Kellog and Rice invented the moving coil loudspeaker while at GE and then went on to invent what they are best known for - breakfast cereal.More seriously - this might be a capacitor breaking down...but it is hard to say as s... | |
| Anything new with digital room correction? it robbed music of transients, dynamics and details were seriously affected. I think you have to get used to it. If you have been living with room modes for a while then the presentation seems kind of exaggerated and you can get used to the large... | |
| Most Important? As an example, is the 3% second harmonic distortion of a loudspeaker less consonant with the fabric of the music than .3% IM in an amp? Good point but 3% distortion in a speaker is amazingly good and 0.3% IM distortion in an amp is lousy. You are... |