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| CD Copies...why do they sound worse? Here's what's puzzling me... doesn't a CD-ROM burner have PERFECT bit-for-bit error-free capability when recording a computer data or program file? Think about it: if perfect (i.e., vanishingly small error rate) transcription and playback aren't a... | |
| CD other tweaks I think a good way to learn something is to ask the question, "how can this be so?" Got to thinking about audio CD tweaks... if I were to apply any of these to a CD-ROM, what do you suppose would happen? Would my software run faster? Would it prod... | |
| Class A Watts vs Class A/B Watts It's impossible to answer, as there's some missing information. Clearly, a class A/B amp delivering 100 watts into some load is twice as powerful as a Class A amp delivering 50 watts into the SAME load. But you seem to be wondering what happens fo... | |
| What CD has the best production/sound? Try Amazon.com for many "audiophile" CDs | |
| Best female vocals on CD Anyone listen to Laura Love? Check out "Octoroon". | |
| What CD has the best production/sound? Here's another vote for "Songs of a Circling Spirit". Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" sounds fantastic, and is regarded by recording engineers as an examplar of the art, or so I'm told. Every re-mastered release I've heard is very good, on the o... | |
| TacT Room Correction System processors Cornfedboy: thanks for the lead. The Accuphase DG-28 appears to be a very high quality automated graphic equalizer, but it doesn't look like it does true impulse response correction, just steady state frequency response correction (i.e., it adjust... | |
| need opinions on argent roomlens The room lenses are damped Helmholtz resonators. The set up a resonating column of air, absorbing some of the sound energy in the low/mid-bass region, and diffusing the rest of it. If you homebrew your own, don't forget to stuff some acoustic fibe... | |
| CD Copies...why do they sound worse? Here's a case where it's not necessarily so that "bits is bits". It is true that the transcription (CD-R) cannot be more accurate than the original. But even if the transcription is identical to the original, the playback machine may read the orig... | |
| Digital Amplifiers? Funny you should mention PWM. Didn't Hitachi have a go at PWM amplifiers back in the late '70s, touting these things as "Class H" amplifiers? They never took off in the pre-digital stone age. What goes around comes around. Take the "network comput... | |
| Need help with high pass filter Looks good. The thing to realize is that the actual cap value may vary quite a bit from the nominal value. Ordinary commercial caps may have tolerances as large as +50 / -20%. Tolerances on good resistors may be as large as 5%, or less than 1% for... | |
| psb vs, klipsch. PSB makes a terrific, very musical line of speakers and are great values. I've heard the Image 2T and was impressed: a lot of speaker for the money. You need a subwoofer for any real mid and lower bass, as with any small speaker, of course. As far... | |
| Guilty pleasure music? Lynyrd Skynyrd. 'nuff said. | |
| Need help with high pass filter Whoops, one more possibility I forgot concerning circuit topologies: the added resistor could be placed in series in the signal path. That would make Reff = R + Rin in the calculation for C in my previous post. The downside of this is that an atte... | |
| Gold CDs sound Darker? Carl, if you and others say you hear a difference, I will grant you that. I'm interested in finding a comprehensible reason why. And seeing that you don't know me, please give me the benefit of the doubt for being fair-minded. Let's also recognize... |