shadorne
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| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I am just pointing out that the TC marketing team has gone completely overboard on the superlatives. It just sounds way to good to be true. If it is too good to be true then it probably isn’t - and that is how this marketing approach is back firin... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 on the filters - Benchmark overrides the ESS chip filters by ensuring the chip operates at 211KHz - even for Redbook - this mean the filters actually sit far above the audio (instead of close to the Nyquist ) and be extremely gentle such that t... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Per Steve’s last post above, this is exactly why hybrid ESS 9028 designs are way ahead of everything. The latest ESS designs are halfway between the R2R style and delta - sigma! The 9028 a 6 bit delta sigma by virtue of hundreds of 1 bit delta sig... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers I saw Jason Bonham recently and he does a really great job of replicating the feel of his father while also having his own style (slightly more modern feel being more on the beat). I agree that the feel of John Bonham is hard to replicate - he rea... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? Legacy Audio Focus is about 10K...that could float your boat If you are ok with used and going up to 15K then you should be able to get what you are after. +1 ATC SCM 100 as suggested by Phusis. If the 100 is far too boxy for you then ATC SCM 40 a... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I understood extremely clearly - TC is amazing and nothing beats it not even an electronics upgrade! This is the wonder product of the millennium - and only $300 for a huge quantity! What a bargain. The fact that it only works fully after exactly ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD The best explanation is the “measuring cup analogy” in Stereophile 1990. Nothing is “thrown away” - Delta-Sigma is just a different (more accurate measuring cup) method for conversion to analog. R2R methodology lost the technical battle about 20 y... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD All this “facsimile” and “guessing” is just marketing BS at best and misleading nonsense at worst. There is no guessing. Redbook defines the signal up to 22KHz perfectly and there is no guess when you oversample. In fact the oversample file contai... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 SteveIn addition, it needs to be better understood that the ESS 9028 DAC is a massively parallel Delta-sigma DAC - in some implementations 512 delta-sigmas are summed in various ways to create a signal. Basically this ESS chip is a hybrid betwe... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? @johnk Thermal compression is one problem - affecting small voice coils much more than large ones. Small voice coils are standard for the consumer market because they are so much cheaper and easy to build as tolerances can be as sloppy as you like... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic “After 40 years in the hobby, and a total tweak nut, I have never heard anything that does what this graphene paste does. The see-through clarity at eight weeks becomes simply amazing.”8 weeks before it works fully? Sure and I was born yesterday. ... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? Other speakers: Legacy Focus is good value and great performance. Large Focal good also but expensive. Paradigm Persona 9H. B&W 800. Pretty much the top of the line in any of these brands will bring you quite close to pro main monitor - you wi... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? A home system based on pro studio main monitors (mentioned above) is going to be very much the same level of immediacy of guitars and drum shots. It is quite easily done. Of course you won’t listen loud like that all day long. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic ”On the 8th week to the day, phone rang and Frank was a very happy camper. The 8th week must be experienced, no amount of words can convey what takes place.”And on the 9th week he saw it was good and rested well satisfied with his work. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Does it cure warts? Does it unblock drains?What about Erudite Disfunction?Surely this magic substance does so much more? How many weeks to cure cancer? |