shadorne
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| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? It is well known that the optical reader of a CD is motorized. It has been shown that oscillations in this motor (as it attempts to read a spinning disc) can induce via these fluctating power supply demands a subsequent spurious jitter in the CD p... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? @teo_audio I am am aware that R2R DACs are impossibly expensive - this is because they are trying to compete with the latest 21 bit resolution of Delta Sigma and the technology is limited by the ability to build a resistor ladder to such high ac... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? Several 1000 CD ripped to a hardrive using iTunes about 10 years ago. Some HD tracks hi resolution material. More recently Tidal. I like the way I can sync my iPhone and get a compressed lossy version of my complete catalog for the car.I discovere... | |
| Burn-in question If you believe in burn in then there is no logical reason to think that it will ever stop - so might as well call it drift or premature aging or poor temperature stability or early electrical break down. (Unlike mechanical vehicles with friction o... | |
| Best interconnect burn-in method @rodman99999 Dielectric is important (it can add capacitance or store voltage as you point out) but not relevant when it comes to audio frequencies over distances of a living room. Air is ideal for speaker cables - so they just need an insulating ... | |
| Best interconnect burn-in method @rodman99999 Sorry but as usual by conflating different areas of electrical wave propagation science less than honest promoters are able to confuse ordinary folks out of large sums of money for meaningless so called performance improvements. Diele... | |
| Did you know....? Russell Crowe is a musician and good buddies with Alan Doyle of Canadian band Great Big Sea. They often play together with Russel joining the band. As a return favor Russel had Alan Doyle act in his movie Robin Hood. | |
| Did you know....? Stewart Copeland's brother was nicknamed Leroy Coolbreeze when he served in Vietnam. | |
| High Quality bi-amp-able full range speakers - choices? IB2S is an ATC three way clone but with a transmission line instead of a reflex port. I think they get someone else not ATC to make their midrange (I read somewhere that Volt makes it for them) - it is a great speaker and a good option. | |
| High Output MC Cartridge recommendations? Mike,I have had great success with Denon 110 high output MC cartridge. It won’t have you crying if it is broken as you will be out of pocket only a fifth of the cost of the Suniko. FWIW you have spent 5K on cartridges that got broken. I would reco... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener +1 AlI don’t recommend splitting line level signals or long line level runs from consumer gear to the amp unless you happen to have a rather powerful preamp like professionals would use. Consumer hifi is usually underpowered and can sound lifeless... | |
| Benchmark Dac3 @mapman I will comment but chances are my comment may be limited to whether it works or not. The measured performance of their DACs is to such high measured standards that they should sound alike or something is badly wrong.Benchmark openly disagr... | |
| Did you know....? Stewart Copeland had 12 horses and once played Polo against Prince Charles and won. | |
| Greatest rhythm sections AWB Tower of PowerSantana Rolling StonesQueenChicOmar And the HowlersFabulous ThunderbirdsRed Hot Chili PeppersRascal FlattsIm a drummer so I am biased but bass and drums are key to all but classical. A good rhythm section is the canvas for the re... | |
| High Quality bi-amp-able full range speakers - choices? ATC are up there with your other choices so far. Since you appreciate biamping you may consider to go fully active - the benefits of completely eliminating a passive crossover are not subtle... |