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| confused on audio file formats RW- The op stated that he was running Mac and iTunes. Foobar does not run on Mac, and in another thread recently Jax2 suggested FLAC for Mac as well. I am questioning that logic.I am not sure what restrictions you are taking issue with. DRM or the... | |
| confused on audio file formats @Jax2I still do not see how to run FLAC in iTunes on a Mac without add on software such as your squeezebox server or Airfoil. Care to enlighten me? | |
| confused on audio file formats Just use AIFF which is a Mac native uncompressed file. FLAC and ALAC (Apple lossless aufio codec) are both compression schemes. Hard drives are cheap. The only thing that might be better than AIFF is WAV. WAV does not support file tagging in a way... | |
| channel d ?? I agree with Sidssp. Ayrewave is the best sounding player on my system. Audirvana a close second. From the reports I have heard, it tends to be system/listener dependent. I have a license for Pure Music, but have not used it since AyreWave. I'd tr... | |
| I have three digital sources Before you give up on your DACs, you may want to try a different connection method such as a M2Tech Hiface or Evo. | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present Lrsky, once again Plato said:"In another room I have a pair of VMPS RM2's, which are somewhat large ribbon hybrid floorstanders, but in my opinion they outclass the Maggies in midrange transparency (they reproduce guitar strings better than any sp... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present Forgive me if I offended. What I meant to say is, the OP asked what people switched to. Magnepans have less detail IMO than Soundlabs, but with a similar presentation due to both being dipole planar speakers. I meant veiled compared to Soundlab, n... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present There you have it, bigger amps for Magnepan! Not the first time I have heard or felt that... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present SoundlabsLrsky miss understood Plato. I think he meant that the VMPSs were easier to drive. "VARIOUS MAGNEPAN MODELS- All the speakers from Magnepan, including the Reference Tympani bass panels above, require above average power, and louder-than-l... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Don't get too excited about AyreWave being free. It is only for another month. This is a beta, price to be announced.USB 2 is good to 24/96 w/o drivers. The DAC may or may not be able to do 24/96 through its USB though. | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes http://sbooth.org/AyreWave/Jax2- I guess it runs FLAC now, it didn't used to. ALAC is the Mac version of FLAC. If you can hear the dif between FLAC and ALAC it makes some sense. I've been running AIFF for awhile now. It might explain why I heard a... | |
| Resolving amps If you are attempting to run Magnepans, you should look at the Magnepan threads. They are a bit of a special case. | |
| suggestions on affordable equipment stands. I used the Mapleshade approach. I made my own, but maple butcher blocks drilled for threaded rods. Works great. | |
| Transport, Touch or Mac Mini to Dac?? I bet the Hiface will smoke a Touch due to the interfacing. | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes WAV does not support metatagging IIRC, as noted there are workarounds.Wireless will(may) have difficulty streaming hi Rez due to bandwidth limitations.So far for me AireWave is the best sounding Mac player. There is an open source OSX player Audir... |