Analog Mikey has gone too far

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Submitted by cyclebrain on

Mike Fremers Oct review of the Esoteric universal player has in my opinion, done much to confuse and mislead readers.
His statement that "Many audiophiles forget that an optical disk is actually an analog format...." is not so. If he is refering to the variations of signal strength read because of disk and laser variations as "analog", then there is no true digital data. Magnetic disk data has varying (analog)levels of flux density for both 1s and 0s. Digital interfaces such as 5 volt TTL signals also have (analog) variations in their levels. Not exactly 0V or 5V.

Prince or Penne

Prince or Penne

Sep 21, 2007

To those who say the Bush Administration hasn't added anything meaningful to American society I say pshaw. He and Cheney have turned lying into an artform. Not lying exactly but a finer, more refined version of not telling the truth. It's still completely self-serving and wrong but now, if you have little or no education and/or sense of any kind, and you’re easily scared, these pronouncements sound vaguely plausible. It's all about the spin. The truth, in that view, is now relative. Everything is shaded and prismatic. Move several steps to the left and everything seems to look different. Looks like the truth. Sounds like the truth. There's a victory to be had in Iraq! Is it any wonder that we've become a more polarized society under the great decider.

which give the system its particular sound: the pre-amp or the amp?

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Submitted by obonillaf on

Given you have your stereo system in separates, e.g. a separate amp and a separate pre-amp, is it true that what gives a system it's particular sound is the amplifier and not the pre-amplifier. I mean, as long as the pre-amplifier is not a defective unit or very bad constructed, what will define the sound will be the amplifier?

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