spatialking
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| Headphone amp and dac advice needed I don't have an answer for you but I do suggest you keep it light so you can take it home with you every night. One of the great mysteries of the universe is how good quality audio gear, when left alone, can grow legs and wander about the planet,... | |
| Are the Paradigm Founders 100F a big upgrade over 85F's I am not familiar with that model but I do have several pairs of various Paradigm speakers in my home theater and they do offer very good and musical sound for a price lower than expected . I would definitely do a good listen to them. | |
| Things I don‘t know Let me see if I can answer some of your questions - 1. Polarity - It has to be in software, reversing it in hardware means all your ones become zeros and zeros become ones. This isn't analog! Conceivably, a bit stream could be designed for tha... | |
| Multi-Zone Amplifier Well, I don't have one I have used so I can't recommend one from that perspective. The one two I do have are home brews. You can look at these and get an idea of what is out there. Remember, switching is post amplifier, so they are always pass... | |
| Multi-Zone Amplifier Why not simply get a speaker selector switch that can handle two or three zones? That gives you the flexibility of choosing any amplifier, regardless of it supporting two zones. That is all a two zone amplifier is, a switch on the output that c... | |
| EAR 890 monoblocks versus CJ ART300 monos I am not familiar with EAR but I do have all CJ electronics in my system and I am continually satisfied with the electronics, even though a number of SS gear seems to appear every now and then. Frankly, it would take a lot for me to give up the P... | |
| Couple of OCC Speaker Cable Options I don't have any experience with either one but that Amazon one is the one I would try. Certainly, given the insane pricing in the world of speaker cables, it is cheap enough to give it a try and see what you think. I might just do that myself,... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers Vs. Horn/component Tweeter Electrostatics can go bad, and yes, you can blow them up, too. They can 'arc" between the panels, which sounds kinda like a gunshot or they can have other issues, all of which degrade the sound. Depending on the failure, you may have to replace... | |
| Splitting Signal to Multiple DAC’s @designsfx Hi there, the Sonifex is the transformer splitter I told you about. The only problem with this approach, if it is a problem, is there is a loss of power in the signal, so you "may" have a loss of fidelity in the digital signal. Fid... | |
| rca or usb digital You will want RCA digital cable, 75 Ohm impedance. USB can work, although it is best with galvanic isolation and jitter reduction. | |
| Splitting Signal to Multiple DAC’s If you are using SPDIF with BNC coaxial connectors, you can use a 75 Ohm video coax and use a BNC TEE connector on each input. This will result in the passive connection, a very common way to do it. However, this is a 75 Ohm terminated line, so ... | |
| Silver Mica Caps on Phono Inputs Yes, Ceramic is often used, possibly more than a film type. Certainly, a ceramic COG/NPO is far less expensive than an equivalent size Silver Mica. Folks seem to have some serious opinions about running audio signal current through a cap's diele... | |
| Slight buzz through speakers Based on what you said, I believe the Mac is instrumental in the problem, but not exactly the source. This sort of problem is cumulative and system dependent, so it is more of a system problem than a particular component. In general, plugging ... | |
| Pro-Ject Audio Vinyl NRS Box S3? I don't have any experience with that particular model and the ones that I do have experience with tend to get confused between music and noise. However, if you have an old album that is pretty trashed and super cleaning won't fix it, then this m... | |
| Slight buzz through speakers So let me understand your minimum setup. You have your McIntosh preamp plugged into your Simaudio power amp and your speakers are connected, but nothing else, right? Does the McIntosh or Simaudio amp have a three prong plug on the power cord? I... |