kijanki
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| Pontus, Brooklyn+ or Benchmark 3? Pros and Cons My DAC3 HGC and AHB2 are great at very low levels (90dB speakers). Both have XLR level adjustment and Benchmark recommends to set the highest DAC3 HGC output and the highest AHB2 input levels. That way gain is moved from power amp to DAC - quie... | |
| Pontus, Brooklyn+ or Benchmark 3? Pros and Cons I had Benchmark DAC1 and now have Benchmark DAC3 HGC. Sound is fuller more vivid and cleaner - big improvement. HGC version is more expensive but remote is included in price while analog inputs or headphone amp might be useful one day. | |
| What is the average life expectancy of a DAC? Electronic will last 40+ years. What about you? | |
| I just bought a Steinway which sounds like a banjo. John Siau, chief engineer of Benchmark Media wrote:"Personally, I do not like what warm sounding equipment does to the sound of a piano. Warmth is wonderful on vocals, guitars and certain instruments, but it beats against the stretched overtones o... | |
| Variac or not? @rodman99999 SMPS would do that - draw more current at the lower voltage, but 510M has linear power supply. Lower supply voltage shouldn’t result in higher supply current. The issue is relay shorting this resistor, that might not activate at the l... | |
| Replacing Bel Canto S300 blown ASC200 module @ukthunderace Congratulations. Not only satisfaction of fixing it yourself but also assurance of being able to do this again (god forbid) in the future. | |
| Variac or not? I found schematic of 510M and note that "Resistor R3 must be shorted with a jumper before autotransformer is used". In normal operation there is a time constant of about 0.3s to activate relay that shorts this resistor, but perhaps at low supply v... | |
| Variac or not? Can you explain why lowering supply voltage (variac) would burn out resistor in series? | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby I remember that Dolby C on my cassette deck worked much better than Dolby B. The biggest difference, extension wise, was HX-Pro (servo on the bias). There was also less effective Phillips thing called Dynamic Noise Limiter (DNL), frequency/level p... | |
| Don't get it, why anyone would ask others "what sounds best"? People are generally divided into two camps: accurate and musical. I'm in accurate camp. People who prefer musical (warm sounding) gear don't like accurate gear calling it "sterile" and "analytical". Many years ago somebody on this forum asked ... | |
| Variac or not? I would power it at about 70VAC for one day. Electrolyte in electrolytic capacitors eats up dielectric (aluminum oxide) lowering breakdown voltage. Presence of voltage rebuilds this layer. 10 years is about the time I would start worrying. | |
| S/PDIF-how different than an IC? If you don't match characteristic impedance between source, cable, and destination you might get reflections in the cable on impedance boundaries. These reflections can modify (add to) transition edge. Such modification, can create staircases on... | |
| T6.3AL250v Fuse: Slow or Fast Blow??????? https://www.swe-check.com.au/pages/learn_fuse_markings.php | |
| Would I have enough power? Maggies are less efficient at 86dB, but also are specified for 2.83V and 4 ohm (at 2W). Specification at 8 ohm (or 1W) would be 3dB less resulting in 83dB vs 88dB for A26. 5dB difference is equal to 3.2 times more power required. You would have... | |
| Ethernet vs 5G Streamer Tech Considerations for Sound Quality CD quality stream is 1.4Mbps. 4G is 100Mbps. 5G is 10Gbps. The question is how you plan to feed it into DAC? |