kijanki
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| If Power Cords Don't Matter... The problem is that it is not plain resistive load for 60Hz voltage. Typical LPS draws current in very short spikes of extremely high amplitude (5 fold or higher). These current spikes have high harmonic content (narrow squares), making cable's ... | |
| Is there a reason why type 3 tapes didn’t catch on? Yes, Metal tapes killed it. I stopped using metal (cost) after getting AIWA deck with Dolby HX-Pro (servo on bias). It provided great extension even with less expensive tapes. | |
| Need opinions on duping CD's Ripping CDs to HD is legal as long as you have one copy that paid royalties - original CD or "Audio CD-R" copy (cheap).Copy can be better than original since most of CDPs can only read given sector once, operating in real time. With longer scratc... | |
| Alternate to Benchmark Dac 1? @severncreek No, I don't. I would save for used DAC2 or DAC3. Benchmark is high tech company, that you cannot go wrong with. As for the camp - I've tried to apply my engineering background to make sense of electrical principles behind good audi... | |
| Alternate to Benchmark Dac 1? I don't know DAC2, but I jumped from DAC1 to DAC3 - huge difference, in spite of my DAC1 updated with better op-amps. Sound od DAC3 is fuller in the midrange being as clean/detailed as DAC1 was. You should update it, if you're still in accurate... | |
| power consumption of total components My Benchmark AHB2 consumes 0.5W at standby, 20W at idle and varying amount during use. Music power is usually very low, but it depends on type of music. The highest would be for playing sinewaves. After that probably organ or heavy classical pi... | |
| Paying for equip? Ach wires or check or cc? I always pay with credit card because it offers the best protection in any dispute with the store. That might be additional reason they prefer checks or cash. In addition credit card offsets my payment for about a month. There is no federal law... | |
| Powering up/down sequence with a 12v dc trigger Good question. I assume pre has to provide for that. My pre (Dac) never fully turns off since it operates with remote. It provides proper sequence for the power amp. | |
| Can AVR DC Output at Preamp Outs be Increased? Your power amp can handle 0.75V or 2.5V at the input. Why would you make your preamp output >10V? It wouldn't work with you amp.In general, it is better to put more gain in the cleaner environment (preamp), but both pre and amp have to be des... | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. Do the English really have that much of a different implementation of the english language versus Americans?Perhaps it should be "English language"? | |
| 100 watts enough? 88dB - 12dB (4m distance) +3dB (room reflections) +3dB (two speakers) = 82dB@1W = 92dB@10W = 102dB@100W | |
| streamer to DAC connection jw944ts, When cable impedance is perfectly matched to DAC then length of the cable doesn't matter, but when it is mismatched then you'll get reflection from the end of the cable. This reflection originates from the beginning of the transition (k... | |
| BNC Cable is RG6 the best? @ozzy It all depends on the slew rate of your clock. For typical transport (25-30ns) you need at least 1.5m or less than 0.5m, but the latter should include all connections (inside of the clock and DAC), so safer would be <0.25m for the cabl... | |
| BNC Cable is RG6 the best? @ozzy 0.05m = 5cm ????If you can make such short cable then you don't have reflections, no matter what you use. | |
| BNC Cable is RG6 the best? There are versions of RG6 with single dual or quad shielding. Other than that, the difference between different cables with the same characteristic impedance is high frequency loss - not important for short distances. Cheap looking cable, as wel... |