spatialking
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| Off grid digital music I had some horrible internet issues here at the house. Although we live in an urban area, the local DSL provider gave lousy service and was getting worse week by week. Until we got a new service, I was able to get T-Mobile to setup my cell pho... | |
| Help me decide on phono preamp I believe Agrippa is right. Save up to make a really good preamp purchase. The smaller the signal, the more impact good quality electronics will have. The signal doesn't get much smaller than phono! | |
| Amp experience @kfz03110: After rereading your original post, I realize what you are really asking about is the crest factor of music. Crest factor is a term used in physics to define the maximum ratio of RMS voltage to peak voltage. For example, for a pure ... | |
| WANTED - Infinity Quantum Line Soure One, QLS1, Q1's That was one heck of a speaker! Good luck finding one. | |
| Do USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 use the same power BUS? USB 3.0 is compatible with USB 2.0. So, you can plug 2.0 into 3.0 and it will work properly. 3.0 however, gives the designer a lot more power options, up to 100W of power transfer. Here is a good description of USB 3.0 power: https://www.all... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. That Furman is a good looking unit, I'd buy it if I had $3100 to spend on line isolation and conditioning. At least it has very good specs! | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @jea48 - "Well designed" what does that mean? If you look at the power cords out there, they all have widely differing design concepts. If you had a power cord that intrinsically attenuated noise say 40+ dB from 30KHz out to 1 GHz while havi... | |
| Amp experience kosst_amojan - I know how logs work, what I don't know is whether ktz03110 does. Consider this, the 10*log(10) of 20 is 13 dB, 10*log(10) of 200 is 23 dB. That an increase of 10:1 in power. Another way to look at it is if music is running 20W... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Please explain how the noise of the switching of a full wave rectifier in a power supply can pass back through the primary winding of the power transformer and through the power cord and end up on the AC mains. I can answer this question - wha... | |
| Joule VZN-100 users: Are you keeping the amp plugged in at all times? I'd call the company and see if you can talk to the engineer / designer. S/he will have opinions on this to be sure. They can tell you where the trade-off is between shutdown and simply leaving them on. It isn't just the hours of idle time b... | |
| Amp experience Well, the additional power means those music peaks won't be clipped. For example, if your speakers are pulling 20W and a 10:1 peak comes along, a 200W amp can handle it nicely and probably a bigger peak than that. A 100W amplifier will clip th... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i - Headphone Noise I haven't with mine and I have two of them. That is a classic symptom of a missing or open ground. Getting a new unit is a wise move. | |
| Need to suggestions who can repair broken RCA input jack on Classe Audio DR-8 If the manufacturer can repair it, quit looking and start boxing!! Even if they charge 2x as much as a local guy, I'd still send it to the manufacturer. At the very least, you know it is done right! I have had some good luck with local repair ... | |
| Turntable Interconnects? Digital interconnects are supposed to be interconnects with a 75 Ohm characteristic impedance. The catch is you can't get that with an RCA jack, it isn't physically possible. Bryston uses a 75 Ohm BNC connector just for this reason. There is ... | |
| Spotify or Pandora @jim204 - Sound Tap! Thank-you! |