tonywinga
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| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? I'm sure the Wadia is something special, however the state of the art in digital audio has progressed since then. I was using my ARC CD player from 2006 up until the beginning of 2021. I thought it was a good redbook player until I heard my new ... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER I'm using my DAC direct to amps right now. I like the sound both through my preamp and direct to amps. The direct route seems to be just a bit more lively to me plus it is 140 watts less power and time on tubes not using my tube preamp. This DA... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show Oh, and House (the TV Doctor show) had the best TV show stereo system. He had a Sota Turntable in his office. I can dig it. (That's from the 1960s- the saying not the TV show.) | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show It's fun to look at TV shows and movies from the past that speculate about the future. The original Star Trek series made some great imaginative leaps but was still bound by 1960s American culture and their perspective of a future framed with 196... | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation Heat kills is true but as long as components are operating below their rated temperature they should be fine. My Pass Labs mono amps, in fact most Pass amps operate at 20C above ambient. I've used my low cost laser thermometer to confirm that. ... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? One of my favorite memories was a PBS concert back in the 1980s. The concert featured a famous flautist who was interviewed by the PBS announcer after the show. The interviewer handed this flautist a cheap plastic recorder and asked him if he co... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? DACs do two things. 1) They decode a PCM or DSD digital stream and convert it to analog. 2) They amplify that analog signal to a level that feeds into a preamp or to a level that can feed directly into an amp. The digital side decoding process ... | |
| Two questions to make you mad. One could argue that rain is just excessive humidity, therefore an umbrella is not necessary. Deniers can rationalize all they want that cables do not or should not matter but they do. | |
| Two questions to make you mad. I can stand on the streets of Savannah and listen to live musicians and imagine that I am in front of my stereo. I can sit in front of my stereo and imagine that I am at a live concert. I think it is all due to my special cables- or I’m too old an... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? The standard addresses EMI rejection. More to sound quality than noise and interference. For example, if one were to compare silver wire XLRs to copper wire XLRs do you really believe there would be no difference in the sound? | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I agree with you that internal components are critical but I posit that the external components, such as cables are also important. I recall a discussion in the 90s about speaker cables. The question was most speakers used cheap, thin wire int... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I can see (+), (-), and ground output wires on each the Left and Right PCB inside my DAC. They are labeled as such on the PCB. So best I can tell is that it has the signal, 180 out of phase signal and ground going to the XLRs on the back. I als... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? All XLR cables sound the same? A fantasy that we all wish were true. I thought that based on a lot of talk on these forums until I started trying out some different XLR's in my system. Then I bought some of the top of the line Purist Audio Desi... | |
| Testing Ethernet switch I appreciate that. Most everyone here loves music and loves hifi. They want to know what is good and what doesn’t work so well. The hard spots come sometimes because of the wide cross section of people with various years of experience, listenin... | |
| Testing Ethernet switch The Geek is like a man standing outside a fine restaurant staring through the window at the people inside enjoying their meals. He won’t go in. Instead he stands at the door asking everyone going in or out if they know the recipes and the ingred... |