herman
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| analog to digital Budget? I plug my turntable directly into the mic inputs of my RME Fireface 400 for A-D and use Pure Vinyl software for RIAA EQ and volume control with my Mac Mini to playback vinyl. The RME is about $1,400 new and usually available used on eBay. ... | |
| Which speakers are higher efficiency? The specs are too close to tell you anything meaningful. Speakers with very close specs can still sound very different from one another. While you can make a short list by using specs to weed out non-contenders these specs are close enough that yo... | |
| Sonic Frontiers 2 with Wilson WP6. I used to frequent a dealer who sold SF and Wilson and spent a lot of time listening to various combinations of those 2 product lines. It really sounded great.I don't know if I heard that exact combo, seems like it was Witt II and a 3 I heard the ... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Stanwal's analysis is off base. The state of the art for digital playback continues to evolve and there is no way a SOTA player from the 90s can compete with a SOTA player from today. The goal continues to be a moving target. | |
| Fuse problem:cannot understand what i'm missing Are you sure you have the correct fuse? Perhaps the package is mislabeled, are the fuses marked 500mA SB? If it's a SB it should be a coil of wire and not just a straight piece of wire between the 2 ends.I've bought a lot of fuses at RS over the y... | |
| itunes backup suggestions Are you sure about that M'texas? According to their website having four 1TB drives gives you 2.7TB of storage with .9TB for redundancy, not 3.2TB of storage, and there's no way you could lose 3/4 of your drives at once and reconstruct it with a si... | |
| Floatin' along the iTunes stream until ... How do you access the library?If you use A as the controller and A is running iTunes and sharing the library on X, the data will go from X to A and then from A to the AE. I tried this and got a lot of dropouts YMMV.If you run a VNC program where A... | |
| Lynx Studio Aurora 8 and Mac Mini vs Transporter I don't have an exact answer but I'm using a Mac Mini, RME Fireface 400, and a program called PURE VINYL. Not recording much but use it for real time digitizing/playback of vinyl although the program can do it; either the raw data and you do the R... | |
| How is the power range determined? For the full range speaker forget about sensitivity at all since it's being only measured @1000hz.While the last part may be true (it is only measured at a certain frequency) I must disagree with the advice to ignore the sensitivity rating. It is ... | |
| How is the power range determined? Many manufacturers of high end equipment don't give power ratings. The reason is simple...there are many different ways to calculate the power rating so it is a meaningless number to most people. Unless you drive the amp into clipping it is unlike... | |
| Measuring A Capacitor Please reread your own post. You did say it would be amplified 10,000 times. And it would not be "a very large transient." it would be a slight pop that clipped it for a minuscule amount of time. Look, it happens all of the time in the winter. I w... | |
| Measuring A Capacitor You are chasing the wrong problem with the aluminum foil. You have a grounding issue. They can be very frustrating and confusing as evidenced by the fact you touch it and it goes down. I was once trying to track down a hum problem by using a clip ... | |
| Should a Furman power conditioner Buzz? It might be defective but I had a Furman balanced 20A conditioner that had a large toroidal transformer and it will definitely buzz if you have DC on you AC line, most likely coming from a dimmer switch or other appliance that presents an unbalanc... | |
| Measuring A Capacitor What kind of hum/buzz are we talking about here? The kind that you have to put your ear to the speaker to hear or the kind that you walk into the room and say "whats that noise?" | |
| Measuring A Capacitor Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant take one interconnect and plug it into the right channel input of the phono and the other end of that same wire into the left input. If it were mine I would short the input with the system powered up. I can't imagine ... |