almarg
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| Preliminary DIY Grounding Box Result My guess is that the perceived benefit is the result of the wire + magnetite that is connected to the DAC’s circuit ground acting as an antenna, and introducing RF energy that it picks up onto the DAC’s circuit ground. Resulting in some combinatio... | |
| HF resistor change a revelation on 12" Tannoy HPD's Thanks for the nice words, Dan. I do have a couple of relatives in the Seattle area, so if and when my wife and I decide to make a cross-country trip I’ll be sure to keep you in mind.To provide some perspective on the effects of a change between 2... | |
| HF resistor change a revelation on 12" Tannoy HPD's Thanks, Erik. Not sure why my link didn’t work for you, although strangely when I tried the link using Google Chrome on a different computer than the one I used to submit my previous post I had to refresh the page to get the image, after initially... | |
| HF resistor change a revelation on 12" Tannoy HPD's Congratulations, Dan, not only for the latest improvement, but for the great DIY work you’ve done over the years creating and refining the speakers.Does the following schematic of the crossover network of an HPD-315 depict the corresponding circui... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? As to balanced cables being immune to quality differences... that is just silly talk. @mambacfa, no one is claiming that balanced cables, in general, are immune to quality differences. The Makua preamp, specifically, is said by its manufacturer t... | |
| Your favourite music movie? I’m surprised that no one mentioned Amadeus. I guess that there are very few classical music fans in audiogon. @rhg88 Actually "Amadeus" was mentioned on 7-3-2019 by both 77Jovian and Skipskip. I had been thinking of mentioning it also, in my... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? @tazdevl30 Thanks for your thoughtful commentary and sage advice. Given that you are a new member here, know that despite the impression that may have been created by some of the subsequent posts many of us here value and appreciate sincere, in... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Hi Uberwaltz,Re your selections:1) I saw "Rocky Horror" once, many moons ago, but I don't remember the music well enough to comment on it. I do remember the film well enough, though, to agree with your "so camp it is brilliant" comment. 2) "The B... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? Is it possible to tell from the kind of information available on the PS Audio website whether or not the BHK preamp meets the criteria that Atmasphere describes? ... their design permits use of single ended and balanced outputs at the same time, a... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? Hi Erik,You’ll find the following thread from 2010 to be of interest, as it discussed exactly the same question: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/quot-they-are-here-quot-vs-quot-you-are-there-quot I had a number of lengthy posts in that thre... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? Yes, in the case of balanced interconnects equipment can be designed such that there will be little or no sensitivity to cable differences. Atmasphere has explained the requirements, and offered what I consider to be compelling proof of his conten... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work P.S. to my previous post:I recall seeing measured data a few years ago indicating that erroneous reads by the laser mechanism occur vastly more often when ripping at high speeds than when ripping (or playing) at normal (1x) playback speed. Althoug... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work IMO the reason many of the tweaks mentioned above by Geoff may be beneficial in some situations has nothing whatsoever to do with bit errors or error correction. The main reason in most cases is likely to be related to electrical noise generated ... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work 8th-note 6-27-2019 @almarg mentions EAC and FLAC. When I rip a CD to FLAC using db Poweramp what does the data on the FLAC file look like. Since it can be compared to a perfectly accurate copy (whatever that means) it shouldn’t need the error corr... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work I would emphasize at this point that the intent of the OP's question is that he is "just trying to understand how CD’s work." Discussions of why a given CD can sound different when played on different players, or why different physical CDs cont... |