I have shown that small differences of input rho can be heard on systems as bad as Shahinian speakers with Bedini electronics.
My vote is for a poor coax interface.
Steve.......I know an analog switch acts like a resistor. But you are missing the point of the design I am suggesting. All the input matching is on the input side. It does not matter what is on the output side.
Don't make me do a drawing of it, because I am too damn lazy.
Jocko
My vote is for a poor coax interface.
Steve.......I know an analog switch acts like a resistor. But you are missing the point of the design I am suggesting. All the input matching is on the input side. It does not matter what is on the output side.
Don't make me do a drawing of it, because I am too damn lazy.
Jocko
audioengr said:
This can means two things, either:
1) your Digital cable and interfaces are REALLY bad
or
2) your system is not revealing enough to hear the differences.
I can easily hear the difference between coax and Toslink with my reference system.
Steve N.
what's your reference system?
Bgt said:
what's your reference system?
You can see it on the "about AE" page of my website:
http://www.empiricalaudio.com
Steve N.
Extreme_Boky said:Nice web site. You have addressed almost all the aspects of good quality interconnects and other cables. Ever tried annealed pure silver ribbons? By the way, why so much shielding?
Extreme_Boky
Shielding, what shielding? My IC's and speaker cables have no shielding. Bare wires suspended in air.
Bgt said:Steve, nice setup.
I think I had a useless coax connection so I'll keep it at that.
System sounds fine anyway so no prob.
S/PDIF cables usually have shielding, even the twin-axial designs.
This is to achieve the 75 ohm impedance.
Steve N.
Shielding, what shielding? My IC's and speaker cables have no shielding. Bare wires suspended in air.
I was referring to (your?) double shielded interconnects.
Extreme_Boky
Extreme_Boky said:
I was referring to (your?) double shielded interconnects.
Extreme_Boky
These are only for customers with bad RF problems. Very rare.
Steve N.
Toslink optical recievers have horrible pulse width distortion, the actual error is very dependent on signal level. This distortion causes the receiver PLL to jitter badly, so different optical cables will have very audible effects.
As an aside a great way of doing S-PDIF would be to use cat-5 cable with dc coupled differential output driving a differential receiver. This would have a response down to dc avoiding the dc wander pulse width distortion problems of a transformer.
As an aside a great way of doing S-PDIF would be to use cat-5 cable with dc coupled differential output driving a differential receiver. This would have a response down to dc avoiding the dc wander pulse width distortion problems of a transformer.
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