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In the Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation

Post Subject: MultiplicitiesPosted by decoud on: 2/21/2013

Sure, I speak of amplification here because that is what we are talking about, but naturally playback is playback, not any of its elements taken alone.
I am not sure more detail about the entire system is helpful because no amount of detail is really detail enough when it comes to these things, except perhaps as grounds to dismiss an opinion altogether, but for what it is worth here it is. The amps are driving a pair of Danley SH-50s, suspended on wire a little above head height from the ceiling of a modest sized room. The source is unresampled digital files, fed from a custom-built linux server running on an industrial computer to an asynchronous reclocking USB to SPDIF converter and thereafter to a cheap balanced PCM1704-based DAC. Volume control is done by custom-made TVCs.
In theory, this setup ought not to work well. Although the SH-50s are 100db sensitive they are built with much more powerful amplification in mind and, I gather, have relatively complex cross-overs. So others might get a better result than I do. I have not identified any negatives referable to the amplifier.

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