shadorne
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| Advantages of beryllium? @kosst_amojan Obviously some implementations are better than other. My statement pertains to the problem of lack of internal damping in most metallic drivers (magnesium being perhaps a notable exception). I count 5 resonances on the Focal Aria twe... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? Here is a waterfall plot just for the Seas Excel Millenium fabric dome tweeter.http://www.diyspeakers.net/snippets.org/ldsg.snippets.org/graphics/seas/e006w.gif | |
| Advantages of beryllium? @mmeysarosh The KEF R700 does measure well but the tweeter still has some hash and is not nearly as clean as the Seas Excel Millenium tweeter - see the outstanding lack of resonances (much better than any metal dome) in the waterfall plot for thi... | |
| Advantages of beryllium? Highly rigid and light but poor internal damping. Personally I don’t like the splashy sound of drivers of this type design (metal and highly rigid). They have great bandwidth that makes for impressive measured performance but I find the sound is "... | |
| Best Drum Solos @treebeard1 Thx for sharing not that was great. Apologies to all who have seen this already (42 million hits and counting)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E | |
| Which Monitor Speakers to Consider +1 mofojo - great description and accurate too | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @gdhal The Oppo UDP 205 is indeed outstanding and I expect that it sounds a bit brighter and thinner than the Yggy. It may well outperform the DAC3 as you claim. Perhaps the Oppo UDP 205 will be another Class A or A+ Stereophile recommended playe... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? I would hazard a guess that for several reasons (only 20 bit, R2R and no upsampling), by necessity the filtering in this DAC will be close to Nyquist and therefore quite aggressive or sharp (like Non upsampling CD players). I suspect it is this sm... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @almarg As always I agree with pretty much all your comments. I would add that the 24 bit will always look much better because at the same -90dbfs you have more bits to characterize the signal. The 16 bit looks square because there are only 2 bits... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? If you watch the video you will see that rounding is practically the same as truncation and does similar damage.Sorry but Schiit don’t understand what they are doing. This is common when good designers with a strong background in analog design sta... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? JA is super duper diplomatic or euphemistic as always.Here is a five minute youtube that explains why dither is so important in digital audio.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpWIQw7HWU | |
| Are there differing qualities of optical cable? It shouldn't sound different unless the DAC is not handling jitter very well in which case you may need to experiment to find out what works best in your situation.I assume you are playing CDs which should be fine. Just avoid using this DAC for an... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Back to Yggdrasil, my worst fears as posted above are true.I found this statement in Stereophile"When you have 24-bit data but 20-bit DACs, you need to dither those data to match the DAC. Otherwise, simply chopping off the 4 LSBs, called "truncati... | |
| Best Rock Drummers @bdp24 Agreed. Bonham style is definitely "lumbering" - it feels as if the wheels are always about to come off! He seems to lurch and time seems suspended and then he has the ability to catch up on the fill or the One beat. I find such a deep pock... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @defiantboomerang The speakers are active - 6 poweramps one for each transducer so I don’t need a power amp for this model.@mmeysarosh I believe ATC claim that a single ATC 300 cabinet will deliver an astonishing 121 dB SPL at less than .3% THD (w... |