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| Is now a good time to buy a pre-owned DAC? Because of the fast changing improvemts to DAC’s I would not want to by a receiver with a built in DAC, keep them separate. It will just obsolete a receiver/dac too soon. The benefit used to be lower jitter, but DAC’ s now are very good at jitter... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. A question on another topic. My Marantz SA-11S2 has an Spdif through rca. I would like to add a BNC connection to go to my dac. Can I just install the BNC and jumper over with 75 ohm coax inside the player? | |
| A black hole went into my Marantz SA-10! Damping externally for the top is probably an ok idea. I would never consider placing damping material, which is a great thermal insulator, over a transformer which can get hot. Insulating the case too much may prevent heat disapation required by... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard Recording is far more than mic selection. As others have said it’s not about accuracy, but what sounds good for the application. To mic a guitar amp there are a lot of common go to mic’s and positions with respect to the speaker cone to give the s... | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? Hi, noticed you said your speaker placement is 10” from the wall. That may be possibly causing the bass accentuation. Before changing out your speakers give a test by moving them out, even if you can’t do that permanently to see if that solves the... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Less talk the science a bit. If you are passing high current to your speakers you need the wire to have the capacity. This means lower gauge, braided. Yes if you try telephone wire, you will limit the current and is going to sound like crap, filte... |