Ahh, but we're talking of a mystical device here, Tom; a great magic wand has been waved across it, and all those "inadequacies" you describe fade away, as if to dust. My goodness, even a humble all-in-one HT system, with inherently quite superior components and overall construction can't possibly think of entering the same neighbourhood, let alone room of such a noble machine ... :b:b
Goodness!!! Do we anything significant left of the original machine at all then ?! Or maybe it's the surrounding box itself that holds the magic, with the "right" logo on it ...
Au contraire, Mike!! I believe that is indeed quite dangerous thinking ... could have you severely reprimanded for such "audiophilic impure" thoughts ...
Ahhh, now we have something meaty to deal with: first of all, get a measurement microphone, and the highest quality R2R, or maybe that should be a digital recorder, hmmmmm; then record the sound at various distances, noting the quality of the acoustic surfaces for a full understanding of the reverberant sound. Especially, try and capture the vertical content of the soundstage, so that someone may deduce precisely the height of the sound from the floor. Do a full spectrum analysis, lots of juicy FFTs; it would be useful to try and determine the precise width of the sweet spot for hearing the sound ... . Then, send all this information off to an acoustics analysis laboratory and see if they can shed some light on the nature of this "distortion" of your toilet's sound ...
No ... it's just missing the point. I could say that all power supplies are not good enough, that all connections that are not hard wired are not good enough, that all means of filtering out electrical interference are not good enough, that all methods of minimising static interference are not good enough, that all techniques for preventing parts of the circuit acting as antennae are not good enough. And that I have used various ways of improving those aspects of construction and behaviour over the years, which is constantly evolving and changing, depending upon everything: what I have learnt to that point, and how well the particular device already functions -- there is no correct way, and most likely never will be: many of the things I do are highly likely to be redundant, I'm still learning.OK, Frank, I see my question asking for details is being ignored - too searching, I guess?
Fine, enjoy yourself
Yes, ... at times, but it's not a really good technique! I need a good luck charm, are you French Canadians any good at being such?? If so, you can hang around for awhile ...... :b:b
If that is indeed the case then that's the reason it works so well; all the rest is just marketing spin, etc, etc. RCA is a pile of sh!t, pure and simple, any EE will tell you that ...
Nope, just came across people talking about this particular D/A converter on another forum, and did a little digging. If you go to the Arcam website, that very positive review by Alan, strangely enough :b, is part of the promo material. Every now and again you come across bits of audio machinery, where the designers really have developed a good understanding of what's truly important, and I think it's worthwhile pointing an approving digit in their direction ...
