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| Does this device exist? "The biggest problem is ripping the cds. A couple thousand cds at 6min a cd = 200hr if you rip constantly "One can do this as they listen to them as well. In either event, they would need to be ripped regardless of what type of server. The catalog... | |
| Vinyl for Digitally Recorded Music - ? "But, I have started collecting vinyl versions of digitally recorded and mastered music and find that the quality just doesn't compare with the older analog recorded stuff."Some of the early ones are the worst of both worlds. | |
| Does this device exist? I did my initial conversion in the background while surfing the net and reading this forum. It was mostly painless and easy. Two stacks and just pop them in and it does its thing. Now that it is done, I listen to more music than I ever did. More v... | |
| conundrum It was probably just the room, set up or amplification. If you liked the 3s at home, you will most likely like the 20s. | |
| Does this device exist? A mac mini fits this bill perfectly. | |
| Magic Eraser used for vinyl cleaning? I can see it being used along with a wet cleaner/Vac such as VPI. | |
| thoughts while listening "As i get older, this is failing a little bit. So by the time i am senile, i probably will be back to endless mental chatter like most everybody else."Ha-One more thing to look forward to! | |
| MUSIC SERVER - HOW DO YOU............ If you like your DAC, the Empirical Audio suggestion is along the lines you should be looking. There are other competitive USB/Firewire>spdif converters. I recommend BNC(over RCA) coax as the best connection method, optical the worst IME. | |
| MUSIC SERVER - HOW DO YOU............ Mac mini seems to be the server of choice for ease of set up and use- load it w/RAM and an SSD. Get a good USB or Firewire DAC and never look back. Skip NAS for now, and use an external drive. You can run it headless off of an iPad/Touch/Phone or ... | |
| Why do my HDCDs play lower on my HDCD machine? By default if it is going to have extended dynamics, the initial loudness must be lower to avoid clipping.That may not be issue here, but my first guess. | |
| Is the parasound p7 really worth $1150 over p3? The p7 is 7.1 vs the p3 is 2 channel. | |
| XLR to RCA output conversion on Benchmark DAC1 I agree with theduke on this. | |
| Pitch changes with digital music??? IF a 44.1k file gets played at 48k you will get that. Probably a software glitch. | |
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| WAV versus FLAC From what I have read and experienced, there are definite differences in file types on high resolution systems. you really ought to try for yourself. Make wav copies off of some select files and put them into a playlist.I am sure some are going to... |