erik_squires
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| Random blast of 0db white noise. Why would a DAC output an analog signal when losing lock? Because the DAC gets confused about where to start reading music within the data stream. Think of the data not as music, but packets, or envelopes. Each packet has more data than just music... | |
| Hum in a phono cartridge? So, my statement was "Balanced and isolated"Where is the ground contact happening at the cartridge side? I'm honestly curious, as I've not touched a turntable in decades. | |
| Preview: CODA Technologies new generation number#8 Stereo Amplifier Nice to know Coda is still around, last I checked their web site was in transition, and I always fear that means the end. | |
| Sound changes when a campfire is between you? Heat means the air pressure above the campfire is higher than elsewhere. :) | |
| Random blast of 0db white noise. Full range digital noise is like this, so maybe don't do that. :) Use the Denon as your volume control if you can. What is happening most likely is that for some reason your DAC is loosing the lock on the digital signal. Could be a bad connection,... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception You're being entirely arbitrary in your definition of what constitutes a measurement device. You seem to be hung up on intent. What I'm trying to focus on is that a measurement (i.e. measure, number) has to be invented. They get invented when a... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception jea48, aren't microphones and tape recorders essentially measurement devices/test equipment? If it wasn't for these measurement devices would you even know what the timbre of a performance were? At least for the intentions of this thread, no. ... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception Here’s a blast from the past : Sonic Frontiers may have been the only one’s I know of to expose I2S outside of a CD player:https://www.stereophile.com/content/sonic-frontiers-transport-3-cd-transport-processor-3-da-processo... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception I'd like to move this a little more forward:@spatialking wrote: I can tell you the reason we have jitter problems, besides the fact that the basic CD clocks are not all the accurate, Clocks are much better now than they were before at the same p... | |
| Magicos are chesty For better or for worse, listeners are definitely polarized about Magico speakers, in the way that they were polarized about Thiel 3.6 speakers way back when. I'm not that polarized, really. I think set up well Magico's are pretty nice, but the... | |
| Off grid digital music Tjhe on bit of bad news is I don't know of any turnkey solutiosn for ripping SACDs.You can buy DSD tracks online, but I don't know of any way to take a physical SACD and rip it5. | |
| The invention of measurements and perception Good points. I guess my focus is on the distance between a measurement, which could be done by an automated device, and human perception/value. I agree we've measured jitter for a while, but was that all? Were there some kinds of jitter worse than... | |
| Connecting external drive to play flac files Sound bars are primarily focused on TV. However, several TVs have media players built in. Have you looked into the Sonos version? | |
| The invention of measurements and perception A good example of this is the redbook standard set in the late 70s early 80s for the then emerging CD format. The standard was fine, but it took until the late 90s to figure out that distortion in the time domain (jitter) was a major factor Ji... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Which measurements, @kosst_amogan for which specific Class D amplifier? Be specific.Most Class D amps measure very well, if not superbly, especially compared to some megabuck Class A amplifier.To write more, it’s not that I am dismissive of specs ... |