richardbrand
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| Auditioned Wilson Sabrina X vs B&W 803D4 and Shocked If you want British done well, you could do worse than hop across the county border from Sussex to Kent, to the old Kent Engineering and Foundry where KEF speakers are designed. If you are technical, read the 40-page White Paper on the Reference ... | |
| Everything matters There's the sign in the Chemist Shop that says: "We dispense with accuracy". That's the fundamental proposition with streaming - it does not matter if packets get lost or corrupted, just get the next one down the line. File transfers can be done... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @thecarpathian "Perhaps not permanently..." The three huge radio towers have gone, and there are houses there now. I do know a street in Canberra where all the houses have been vacated by order because of high radiation risk. Did not stop us wo... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Earlier I proposed an experiment to replace a switched mode power supply delivering a nominal 12-Volts DC for a 12-Volt battery in a Faraday cage. The target CD transport is a Sony Univeral disk player with HDMI output. My Windows laptop has an H... | |
| Help for me, money for you. @toddstr 20 minutes is a bit excessive. You just want to make sure the device switches fully off to ensure it reboots. 20 minutes is a long time on the Internet. It is estimated that a new device plugged into the Internet will be attacked with... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? @billstevenson Thanks Bill! I have been wading through all 192 pages of "Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records". My take so far is that much of the muck in the microgroove is smaller than the human eye can see, and some in fact is smaller... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @thecarpathian "Doesn't amperage play a part in this? I also don't see the correlation between changing the power source with changing the power cord" Many of us have to make do with 240-Volt mains supply, so already need less than half the amp... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Interestingly I have access to a couple of Sony universal disc transports, which handle CD, SACD, DVD, BluRay and Ultra BluRay. Each transport has two HDMI outputs, one purely for audio. Each is powered by a 12-Volt wall wart, so it would be v... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @vuch the question was about power cords! | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @audiophile1 Not to mention the likelihood that the CD transport injects noise onto the power cord which can affect other components. A CD transport includes three feedback loops: a servo mechanism for adjusting the height of the laser above th... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @lalitk "as natural as DAC’s that uses Sabre ESS Pro Chips" I would add that some AKM DACs also handle 32-bit PCM and DSD natively. To my ears, Marantz uses these chips beautifully. I always suggest looking at the data sheet for any embedded ... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @lalitk You mentioned that DSD "is currently only available as downloads". I guess that was a reference to streaming! There are over 6,000 SACDs listed at Presto Music if you like classical and jazz. I find it interesting that PCM bit-depths ar... | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume @lalitk That is exactly what I was trying to get across! The noise floor argument surely favours digital, and especially high-resolution including DSD? Wish I could get the noise floor of my house down to match. My partner keeps telling me I ... | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume As a general rule, music always sounds better at higher volume. That's why level-matching is vital for audio comparisons. We are also very sensitive to distortion. If we don't have to consider others, we tend to turn up the volume to the point ... | |
| Krell Moves to new location @jwei You asked "For the experienced legal minds among us, I ask Which parties benefit"? My answer: Lawyers and liquidators. |