sean
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| non over sampling DAC better than 24/96 or192 DAC? There's something to be said for both non-oversampling and for up-sampling. A good design provides the benefits of both, but only if it is fed with a good signal from the transport and digital interconnect. Even if it is not fed from the purest si... | |
| Xover parts quality,/sound difference? Different parts in the crossover will result in different sound most definitely. It is not even a matter of different parts, but even how those identical parts could be laid out and / or connected to each other. If i were to show pictures of some ... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? I used the AP Oval 9's when they first came out. Ran them for well over 500 hours with music playing non-stop 24/7. They were connected to a high powered amplifier directly driving very low impedance, very low sensitivity full range speakers. Ther... | |
| CD sound quality From what was added to this thread by Bonvoyage, and through his own logical deductions, it seems that the problem is mostly the recordings and tonal preferences. If treble is missing on one disc, yet bass is missing on the next, that sounds more ... | |
| DIY Interconnects review Guidocorona: I surely am not a chemist, nor do i play one on TV, but i was able to find this info on a website:"Silver metal will oxidize spontaneously upon exposure to free oxygen. This process is commonly referred to as "tarnishing". The chemica... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? The "impedance compensation networks" or "Zobel's" as supplied by Goertz are not wired in series with the signal. They are placed across the speaker terminals in parallel with the signal path. They only come into play at frequencies WAY beyond aud... | |
| DIY Interconnects review Silver oxidizes extremely easily and extremely rapidly. While Silver Oxide in itself is still highly conductive, the corrosion on the silver conductors can then spread onto the connectors and adjoining connected surfaces. Having said that, there's... | |
| DIY Interconnects review Rhyno: Not only does the gauge of the ground wire factor into the sonics, but also the proximity that it was placed in comparison to the geometry of the other conductors. Chances are, you changed the nominal impedance of the cable by a good percen... | |
| CD sound quality Rich: I recently recommended ( in private via Email ) that someone try a used DVD player as a digital source, which they ended up finding for something like $30 or so. They compared it side by side to their newly purchased $500 redbook unit in the... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? As a point of reference, I have always recommended the use of MI-2 Veracity's over the MI-3 Divinity's. The MI-3's are too low in nominal impedance for most systems, causing excess current to flow. Since most amps aren't up to the task, the end re... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? No problem Marc, go ahead and drop me a line. Just be a bit patient as i sometimes get more email than i know what to do with : ) Sean> | |
| Recomendations for using 2 4ohm woofers in a 3way. If anything, you would want to use mids and tweeters that are more efficient, as it is easier / more cost effective to "pad" or "attenuate" higher frequencies than it is lower frequencies.Starting off with two 8 ohm woofers would be advantageous i... | |
| Yamaha MX1000U Amp Am i the only one completely befuddled here or what??? Not only with some of the original posters questions / terminology, but with some of the responses too !!! Other than that, this is a pretty sturdy amp, one of the better ones from a "mass pro... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Jason: That's a great idea, but i don't really see too many high visibility performers that would be open to the idea of "strangers" recording their live events. While some artists / groups do allow such things, trying to do so at most events will... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Shadorne & El: I know that not ALL "redbook" cd's and / or cd playback systems suck. I have heard very enjoyable redbook based systems and would like to think that i own a couple of them. Having said that, i think that the mass majority of red... |