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Ooleg87 reacted to restorer-john's post in the thread Can a faulty amplifier blow a tweeter or a woofer just by being turned on? with
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DC will not blow tweeters. Ultrasonic oscillation will blow tweeters and you won't hear a thing. Get the amplifier checked by a... -
Ooleg87 replied to the thread New Nagra DAC announced at CES - list price $65,000.When people say audio DACs are a solved problem we mean it. $10 commodity chip DACs cannot be meaningfully improved upon as far as...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.I still keep a copy of my half-terabyte music collection on my ancient video iPod.
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Ooleg87 reacted to voodooless's post in the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused? with Like.
Argument from incredulity…. Classic.
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Trying to find the best DAC+Amp combo for the HD800s, under $900. Was originally leaning towards Schiit products, but they don't seem to review well..The Midgard and Jotunheim use the same volume pot. The knob itself is easy to replace. Remember that the difference in headroom...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.Had another moment reminding me of the near-uselessness of sighted listening tests yesterday: I saw it mentioned in some documentation...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.If it's halfway well-designed, sure. The temperature of devices certainly has an effect that needs attending to in a design, "burn-in"...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.Yes, facetious evasions, vague handwaving about transient instability or whatever and allusions to trade secrets are about the only way...
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Ooleg87 reacted to ahofer's post in the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused? with Like.
No, apparently not. You rely on what you see and already know, along with your hearing. It would be more interesting if your...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.We measure it. But the straightforward, sensible, low-cost way to implement a chip DAC is to accurately reproduce the signal. Most...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.All DACs? No, some DACs do a very poor job of accurately reproducing the signal - particularly the technically perverse examples of...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.How do they do this?
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.No. That's the whole point - music, before it makes a transducer wiggle, is just an electrical signal. If a DAC has no defects in its...
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Ooleg87 replied to the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused?.If you have evidence of a DAC that is known to perform reasonably well misbehaving in a manner that evaded Amir's (or whoever's)...
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Ooleg87 reacted to Miss_Sissy's post in the thread Serious Question: How can DAC's have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused? with Like.
Why do you think that there are so many different brands of table salt on the market instead of only one? :facepalm: