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| patricia barber - diana krall - holly cole No love for Diane Schuur? | |
| Advice & thoughts on DIY Recap/Restoration of vintage amp/equipment @imhififan +1 If it is that old relays should be replaced anyway to avoid future problems. It might be as simple as that. | |
| Music Servers/External Drives I rip to ALAC using free XLD with "max retry" set to 200. Recently I used internal Jriver (Media Center 30) ripper and it seems to be fine. FLAC is more universal, but does not work with ITunes (that I used before) while ALAC is native Apple fo... | |
| Advice & thoughts on DIY Recap/Restoration of vintage amp/equipment Fix the problem first, then recap - otherwise you concatenate possible problems making it even more difficult to fix. Also, I would make sure it is power amp and not the preamp (for instance volume control). Once you are sure (by switching chann... | |
| Do Amps matter.. in an Amp? Your amp would likely need that much current to drive difficult load, but 60A current thru 1ohm load produces 3600W !!! These numbers might reflect good power supply, but have nothing to do with reality. As for damping factor - the easiest way... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? @audioman58 IMO capacitor dry out powered or not. Unpowered capacitors are likely at lower temperature drying slower. Electrolyte tends to eat out dielectric (aluminum oxide) reducing breakdown voltage, while presence of the voltage rebuilds ... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Each 10degC temp increase shortens capacitor life by 2. It is simply drying out of electrolyte. Drier capacitors have higher ESR. At certain point current thru capacitors causes internal temperature increase. Temperature increases ESR and high... | |
| Perception and Watts: Doubling of power I found this equation in article about perceived loudness: L[%] = k^(1/3.5) where k is ratio of power. According to this 200W amp will sound 21.9% louder than 100W amp. 150W/100W ratio will make it 12.3% louder. Somehow it is easier for me to ... | |
| Can You Beat Simple? Real instruments have harmonic color, body, richness,vividness and full bodied tone There is now way to remove overtones/harmonics of instruments as long as amplifier/pre/DAC has adequate bandwidth. The only thing good gear can remove is color... | |
| Can You Beat Simple? That was my first impression when I bought Benchmark DAC. It sounded so clean - almost like some instruments were missing. I guess we got used to sound with a bit of distortion and/or jitter added noise that makes music sound more dynamic (like ... | |
| Toroidal vs EI power amps any difference. https://www.mpaudio.net/post/advantages-toroidal-transformers | |
| Out building for sound. The dream ver$e$ reality Don't forget about proper earth grounding: | |
| HDD to SSD migration and capacity? The only reason for more headroom is limited number of "writes" to SSD. Controller from time to time rotates data location to avoid any cell being written too many times. Disk with large overhead will last longer, but it applies to extreme cond... | |
| Dropouts when steaming with WiFi connection (Amazon Music). Change, if possible, your WiFi from 2.4GHz to 5GHz. Lower band has only 3 non-overlapping channels, since each channel is 3.5 channel wide. There is a lot of traffic on lower band and in my home microwave worked on one of the channels causing mu... | |
| Arcam CD23 worth saving? Ladder D/A converter are limited to about 18 bits because of components tolerance, while Delta-Sigma converters go only to about 20 bits, because of noise. Ring D/A converter was developed by DCS and licensed to Arcam. Instead of just one compone... |