shadorne
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| Psychological effects of volume control @gdhal It is always best to have your line level equipment run close to maximum when the sound is as loud as you can stand. Just like analog tape should always be recording close to the red on peaks. The idea is you want to use the full dynamic ra... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I recall when the Benchmark DAC1 came out. I could hear a significant difference between the DAC and other gear but a friend of mine could not. It was on my system so I think I had an advantage being familiar with the sound. Subsequently he got a ... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC @mahler123 I suspect the Mytek and Bryston DACs you tried are both Stereophile Class A or A+ ? My suggestion to the OP is to try a Class A+ DAC. IMHO that will yield a subtle improvement over the Oppo. The Oppo is obviously very good value so a lo... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC On off cycling causes wear and tear too. Caps left unused for too long will fail too. So there is no single solution that is best.I suggest you let your equipment warm up for an hour before a serious listening session and for casual sessions don’t... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC They should sound extremely close if everything is working properly. Especially if the electronics is all built and tested to a high standard. You might need to invest more to get a subtle difference.Try a Benchmark DAC3 straight into the balanced... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC @gdhal Yes - rule of thumb is every 10 degrees Celsius higher in operating temperature will half the life of many capacitors.Most caps are rated 105 degrees for 2000 hours. At 95 they will last 4000. At 85 they should last approx 8000 and so on an... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @georgehifi If playing CD quality files it really doesn't matter at all. Good point.However in judging a product I do like to check manufacturers claims. For example technical claims by Hegel don't hold water. So either they got something messed u... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @almarg Yes. I did understand your post.Glad we both agree that you can't magically get 21 bits from a 20 bit DAC without ADDITIONAL digital control (the extra bit) which then makes the DAC a 21 bit DAC not a 20 bit DAC. If you had added the extra... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @defiantboomerang What you propose is indeed 21 bit. 20 bits from the two DACs each and an additional one bit MSB logic chip which controls whether the two DACs are additive or only one is turned on. This is not the same as balanced where both ch... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? @almarg Not really. This just doubles the voltage value of each bit but it keeps the same resolution in terms as of number of bits or number of unique digital values available. | |
| Computer Speakers I use Genelec 8020 - excellent active computer speakers. | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC @bruce_philly If you left your DAC1 on for seven years straight night and day then I think you may have suffered what I observed. A dead sounding DAC due to capacitors aging (higher heat ages faster). I particularly noticed this when I got mine ou... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Putting one chip on -ve and one chip on +ve of balanced will simply double the voltage but won’t increase the bit depth. There really is no way to increase bit depth without a DAC chip with greater bit depth so I think Schiit is stretching the tru... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? You can still get some signal resolution above 20 bits by dithering the 24 bit digital signal when converting to 20 bit. Dithering is much preferred to just truncating the least significant bits. Dithering adds random noise to the signal and raise... | |
| Rate my system and chose the next upgrade I rate all your gear an 8 or 9 out of 10 except the speakers which are a 3 and the amplifier a 6. Frankly these speakers are terrible.http://www.soundstagenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=834%3Anrc-meas...Every plot... |