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| Theoretical question about how CD's work @Millercarbon, it seemed to me to be implicit in the OP’s question that the monkey would have to be provided with some means of converting the physical representation of 1’s and 0’s that is used by the CD medium (namely the transitions between pit... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work The short answer: Yes!A longer answer: First, the monkey would indeed be busy for a very long time, as a typical CD contains something like six or seven billion 1’s and 0’s (referred to as "bits," which is short for "binary digits"). The bits bein... | |
| Jumpers - how long is long enough If in fact the length of the jumpers makes an audible difference in a given system, I would expect the difference to depend on the impedance of the speakers (especially the impedance at high frequencies), and on whether the cables from the amp are... | |
| What to do? Buy a new motherboard and rebuild? Or wait for failure? You can no longer do a clean install of Windows 7. Microsoft shut down the Windows 7 update server a few years back. Windows 7 install needs to access the update server to verify that it’s a legit copy of the OS and to download the latest Windows ... | |
| What to do? Buy a new motherboard and rebuild? Or wait for failure? Be aware that Microsoft will be discontinuing support for Windows 7 less than seven months from now. To be precise, on January 14, 2020. Which means that after that date security patches for it will not be issued, and a Windows 7 computer will the... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong For an alternative possibility, see my post in this thread dated 6-20-2019.Regards,-- Al | |
| List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid Seems to me like a very reasonable idea for a thread, that would be of interest to some even if (as might be expected) clear trends don’t emerge. For one thing, lack of a trend could in itself be reasonably considered to be a trend. For another th... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong There was one significant operational difference, which others have confirmed. I don’t know why this is true, but the Class D amps needed 2-4 days to warm up. The Luxman needs no time at all. I have no rational, engineering explanation for this. A... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... Elliott, to answer your question just above:The gain of the preamp cannot change the amp’s maximum power capability, of course. If the maximum output voltage of the source when boosted by the gain of the preamp is enough voltage to drive the amp t... | |
| List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid Based on prices paid as adjusted for inflation:Speakers, DEQX Preamp/Processor, Power Amplifier, Phono Stage, Headphones & Headphone Amp,Turntable, CD Player, Record Cleaning Machine, Tonearm, Phono Cartridge, Isolation Products (platforms, ... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... To the OP: I took a look at the specs and descriptions of the six source components you listed. Some comments regarding driving the Odyssey Stratos Extreme directly from them:1) Note that the RME device only provides balanced outputs, and see the ... | |
| So I switched from XLR cables... bdp24 6-17-2019 @captbeaver, have you verified that both the Mac and the Parasound (and your XLR cables) are wired in accordance with AES File 48? That is, Pin 1 is Ground, Pin 2 is Non-Inverted Signal, Pin 3 is Inverted Signal. As Ralph Karsten o... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... Unfortunately it appears that sensitivity is not specified at the Odyssey site for any of the Stratos amplifiers. Nor is gain, which in conjunction with the maximum power ratings could be used to calculate sensitivity. And I couldn’t find relevant... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... My plan is to go Mac Mini to a DAC/Preamp to a beefy amplifier to speakers with a sensitivity of 86 db at 2.8 Volts.If I had an all digital DAC/Preamp combo that maxed out at "line level", is that enough to reach reasonably loud levels? Since you... | |
| Tekton or Klipsch Since at least in theory every component in the string influences the sound... what might the Rothwells do? There have been conflicting reports here about the Rothwells. Some people have reported finding that they compromised dynamics; others (in... |