kijanki
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| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? I don't think people realize that the USB signal does not get reclocked by the DAC. What they reclock on the DAC is the audio signal that is transported via USB.In async USB DAC receives "frames" of data usually at 1kHz rate and feeds them into bu... | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? @mihalis yes, asynchronous USB receives just data and uses own independent clock for D/A conversion. Still, any electrical connection can inject noise and alter this clock timing. As for optical connection - it helps, but it is not a panacea. ... | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night He was always so nice to me, but his nature was to be nice to everybody. People like that, I meet in my life from time to time, give me example and correct my behavior. Without him this forum suddenly makes much less sense to me with bunch of pe... | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? @mihalis I called your post a "blanket statement" because you stated that nothing makes a difference when your DAC is connected thru fiberoptics etc. There is a big difference between saying "I cannot hear the difference" and "Nobody can hear th... | |
| Too terminate or not audio2design, I agree - inductance (important factor) will be similar to lamp cord while capacitance (less important) will be on high side. Dielectric constant of cotton is very low (1.3-1.4), but for oiled cotton (why?) it is over 3, increasing ... | |
| Best Patricia Barber or Keith Jarrett Album ? Keith Jarrett - still "Koln Concert"Patricia Barber - "Verse" | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? Audio2design, You're right - that's probably what he was talking about, otherwise it doesn't make any sense. He says "My system uses fiber optic cables. These go all the way to the dac", hoping that optical connection, shielding DAC from electric... | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? So I claim that: if your dac receives a bit perfect signal and it is connected via fiber optic, anything prior to the conversion to fiber optic (streamers, switches, their power supplies, cables etc) make absolutely no difference. It is simply not... | |
| Old Ferrofluid, new tweeter? helomech, Most likely it is not completely dry or very thick, but just dried a little - changed viscosity. Parts Express sells ferrofluid that is Ferrotec APGL11 - good for both tweeter and midrange, but they sell different fluids with different... | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters Let’s forget nonsense about reflections at audio frequencies and concentrate on frequency response. Increased characteristic impedance is not the reason for the signal attenuation at the high frequencies - increased inductance is. Same attenuation... | |
| Too terminate or not I replaced banana with spades on my multi individual strand cable. I bought Audioquest spades but standard crimper did poor job. I borrowed Audioquest crimper (almost identical) from the local Audio store and it worked perfect. After crimping I... | |
| Is a balanced XLR cable inherently less critical than a single ended RCA one? As long as source and the input are not ground related capacitance between wire and shield has no effect, but capacitance between wires still exists. Dielectric with lower dielectric constant will reduce capacitance between wires. Signal wires i... | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters It correlates because spreading wires apart increases inductive reactance that is dominant factor here. The idea that 7m speaker cable is a transmission line for audio signals is insane, IMHO. For 20kHz signal you will need about 1000m long spea... | |
| Does it matter the wire gauge used in interconnects? @ozzy I should've explain better in my last paragraph, that gauge 18 would be even fine even for the speaker cable, while for ICs it doesn't make any difference. Gauge of IC wire should be thick enough for easy handling. That's perhaps why Acou... | |
| Does it matter the wire gauge used in interconnects? @ozzy AWG 20 sounds OK. My Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs have gauge 20 wires. I assume you're going to twist wires. XLR are usually twisted. Twisting exposes both wires evenly to external electric and magnetic fields reducing interference pickup ... |