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Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P1 Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P1 As many of us have noticed over the past ten years or so, CD recording quality appears to be going on a downhill trend. Remarks are commonly made by consumers and professionals that many earlier…
Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P2 Current Trends in the Recording Format Arena P2 SACD has no digital filter and relies totally on the analog low pass filter at the output of the DAC. This gives SACD a very distinct improvement in transient response vs. the standard CD. SACD also…
Brick Wall Digital Filters and Phase Deviations Brick Wall Digital Filters and Phase Deviations Over the years controversy has raged back and forth on whether brick wall filters used in digital audio (namely for CD playback systems) exhibit phase shifts in the audio band (20Hz to 20kHz). Audio…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 1 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 1 Reprinted with the Permission of Christine Tham. Visit her very informative website at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/christie/ Diana Krall's The Look…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 2 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 2 My previous comparison of 2-channel recordings of the title track of Diana Krall 's The Look Of Love on CD, DVD-A (Group 2 - MLP 2.0 96/24) and SACD (2-channel) versions yielded a surprise in…
Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 3 Dynamic Comparison of CD, DVD-A, SACD - Part 3 Sometime ago you will recall I did two articles comparing stereo versions of Diana Krall's Look of Love on DVD-A (96/24), SACD (DSD) and CD (44.1/16). In Part 1 , I discovered that my recording of…
Audioquest Cable Theories Exposed Audioquest Cable Theories Exposed Audioquest: We totally understand that is very easy to be skeptical about cables. After all, you can't measure it, so how can you possibly hear it? In fact you can hear it - and it really is very…
Common Misconceptions in Audio Part II - Speakers Common Misconceptions in Audio Part II - Speakers We have singled out a few common questions your fellow Audioholics have asked me in the past regarding speaker connectivity and power issues, and decided to post them here with our responses.
Connecting 4-ohm Speakers to an 8-ohm Receiver Connecting 4-ohm Speakers to an 8-ohm Receiver This article discusses 8 ohm vs 4 ohm speakers and how the typical AV Receiver will handle them. We discuss how to set the impedance switch to get the most power from your receiver.
Connecting a Subwoofer to a Receiver with No Subwoofer Output Connecting a Subwoofer to a Receiver with No Subwoofer Output Is it possible to connect a subwoofer in a Technics AV Receiver Control Receiver SA-GX350? How? It has NO subwoofer output, but has 4 Front (A + B), 1 Center, 2 Rear speaker output and Dolby Pro…