kijanki
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| Valab NOS dac vs 192k upsampling dac Matt - My Benchmark DAC1 + Rowland 102 were ruthlessly revealing and I couldn't find right balance. Changing speakers to Hyperion 938 made it different system - creamy smooth, extended and detailed. I'm not sure how much depends on DAC and how muc... | |
| stereo amp vs monoblocks, any advantages? Thomastrouble - Different speaker (or IC) lengths are matter for another discussion but it is very difficult to sell them. If you believe that cable is detrimental to sound then effect is proportional to distance (capacitance, inductance, dielectr... | |
| stereo amp vs monoblocks, any advantages? Thomastrouble - with typical 1m interconnect it will shorten each speaker cable by 3' (1m). My 6' speaker cables would become 3' cables without changing interconnects. Twice shorter cable = twice better cable. | |
| How much improvement with better toslink cable? Mapman - Everything depends on the type of DAC you use. If it is NOS or just regular oversampling DAC then coax most likely will sound better. This most likely is because in spite o twice larger jitter toslink breaks ground loops and helps a lot i... | |
| stereo amp vs monoblocks, any advantages? My Stereo IcePower amp has separate compartments for each channel. Each module has own regulated supply. Monoblocks still would be better because they shorten speaker cable. | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - It might be THD +S/N or some nonlinearities of output transistors in spite of feedback (there is no perfect regulator). I don't know if THD can be measured without noise. Traditional THD meter deliveres pure sinewave to the input and subtrac... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? "...my attention would be drawn by that realism to what was right about the recordings, and not what was wrong."Al. Thank you - that answers my question I asked at the beginning of the thread "why now with better system I don't need to adjust soun... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? Mapman - Tonal imbalances bother me too. It is very tiring to climb the stage and adjust their amps at every concert. | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions 4est - I'm surprised that you could hear any difference between toslink and coax. Benchmark has few Hz jitter bandwidth and at the frequencies of interest - kHz has in order of -100dB supression of the jitter. Typical jitter artifacts (sidebands) ... | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - USB is safe bet but USB sound is not necessarily better than Spdif. Your plan with serial number is the best think you can do. Ask them what else changed afterward.One more thing - If you use it with volume control (like I do) disable th... | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - USB is safe bet but USB sound is not necessarily better than Spdif. Your plan with serial number is the best think you can do. Ask them what else changed afterward. | |
| Benchmark Dac1 Versions Bmdduck - My DAC1 revision is H. Early Benchmark had few problems. First was thin sound of Signetics NE5532 opamps until factory burned down in 2000 or 2001 and Texas Instr bought license from them. Texas Instr redesigned die (larger) and sound go... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? I agree that resolution unveils system shortcomings but I remember also my old inexpensive system 20 years ago that required constant tone adjustment because nothing sounded right - one CD too bright while the other too bassy. Now with better gear... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - I looked at two latest Stereophile reviews of tube amps and I don't see "u" shaped curve.First: http://stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/moscode_402au_power_amplifier/index4.htmlSecond: http://stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/hyperion_ht-88_monobl... | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Bob - Look here http://stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/musical_fidelity_titan_power_amplifier/index5.html Find distortions vs. power at 1kHz and it shows this u-shaped curve. Everything behaves worse at low levels. For speakers it might be mechanic... |