celander
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| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? BTW, RCH Labs out of Carson City, NV appears no longer in business. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @shadorne yes, I see that. Rory of Benchmark sent a bunch of links of application notes to me. Looks like they’ve also improved the master clock and how jitter is controlled in the DAC of the DAC3 unit. | |
| Turntable setup in Chicagoland area Chris Barry is the go-to Linn setup guy. He was at Music Direct, too. No longer there. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @shadorne thanks for the links. Looks like the DAC3 HDR-VC™ system combines an active gain circuit with a low-impedance passive attenuator, where the motorized volume pot controls the active gain circuit and the passive attenuator is located after... | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? I have sent a request to benchmark about this topic. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @audioengr So the DAC3 uses method 2, with the attenuation arising after the last active stage? I’m unclear about this. | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? @geoffkait +1, for clarity. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? The owners manual of the all digital input version, DAC3 DX, makes even more clear the digital volume control of the outputs:”The MAIN bus drives the XLR outputs and one pair of RCA outputs. The MAIN bus delivers the highest performance because it... | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? The high cost of high quality tapes is sufficient reason to abandon this technology. Chalk it up to economics. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @georgehifi I looked at the owners manual after posting. I think you are correct about the digital domain volume control. Here is what their manual says:“HGC is Benchmark's unique Hybrid Gain Control system. The DAC3 combines active analog gain co... | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @georgehifi If a DAC-preamp manufacturer uses only an analog volume pot, then can one assume the digital domain is set for 100% output, thereby ensuring no bit-stripping arises? I’m thinking here of the Benchmark DAC3. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @georgehifi I thought I deleted my errant post regarding my misread of your suggested “1000-Ohms”. I read your post again and realized you wrote “100Ohms” rather than “1000Ohms”. My bad. The ATC (analog) preamps have a rated output impedance of 10... | |
| Oppo 205 modification @tuffy72561, nice summary, including your install of your parallel run of Teo Audio Ultras in your system. | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? Just for grins, I pulled out of storage my CAL Delta transport, Sonic Frontiers Ultra Jitterbug (reclocks transport signal to <40ps jitter) and Theta DS Pro Basic IIIA (interlinked via Canare AES/EBU 110-Ohm digital IC’s) and ran it head to hea... | |
| DAC-Preamp having these specifications? @1graber2 the BC 3.7 checks all the boxes except price. It seems $2k higher than what I’m interested in spending. |