Saidera
Senior Member
ATH-M30x and M40x.
Xperia 1 III
Sonata HD II (ESS)
Xperia 1 III
Sonata HD II (ESS)
This has been on my Todo list for quite a while. Just have to find the time to do it as I have a programmable AC generator.A thought would be perhaps adding something like a Chroma 615xx programmable AC source to the test suite that can generate complex AC source waveforms simulating line harmonics and seeing how good equipment is at rejecting it beyond just basic 60Hz rejection.
This has been on my Todo list for quite a while. Just have to find the time to do it as I have a programmable AC generator.
Kinda out there but I'd be interested in seeing if a cathode ray oscilloscope sees any difference between a delta-sigma and multibit DAC, particularly with more complex wave forms. Was thinking existing testing was perfectly adequate, then I see that review of that NuForce dac that seemed fine until it fell apart to the multitone.
Amps. I think this is still the weakest link nowadays, at least after speakers themeselves, but im sure there are a lot of good ones that we just don't know about.
For class A/AB they are not insanely expensive and are supposed to sound great. The idea being buy a inexpensive ish AVR like the Dennon X3500H whenever the video tech requires an upgrade and keep the Parasound long term.
Suggestion: Let TVs do what TVs do best and keep the AVR out of the video chain entirely. Use eARC.
I'd like to see AVRs lose the V. That's the real benefit of ARC, not this handwavey BS about fewer cords (provably false anyhow). Why pay for video handling in 2 components when your TV already has that?
So as opposed to running one 10-15 foot HDMI cable to the TV, you want to run 5 of them, then another back to the AVR?
Dsp and multichannel audio processors slash avrs
Somewhere I saw a test of different speaker cables with multitone testing. The measurement point was IIRC at the speaker terminals between a real amp and real speaker-different cables showed different amounts of "fuzz" in between the pure tones. I don't recall where that was, but a re-test would be great, to see that confirmed or refuted. And to aid my memory as to whether those amplitudes were significant or not.Cables: especially well thought of, expensive varieties