acurus
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| Impossible? Small towers, efficient, musical, loud I have been looking for the same thing, one word: PROAC.....really any model. Using with 30 watts solid state and they kick a**. Try Studio 140s to knowck your socks off, small footprint, elegant, rock like hell. | |
| Ripping 700 CD's to HD using FLAC-How much space? many programs will read FLAC so you dont have to convert it. If you need to convert, check out dbpoweramp.....it is an incredible program. You may have to re-load artwork, but all tags should remain. | |
| Ideas for making a soundproof box for MacMini? Go here and build one of these: Fanless, only noise is from harddrive:http://www.logicsupply.com/products/systemga_l01 | |
| KRELL KAV-300 CD PLAYER good value ? Incredible value. Transport is the VRDS from Esoteric. DAC section is ok, has some grain on the top end, but overall much better than many newer products. Especially as a transport, very hard to beat. | |
| Squeze Box Question Sounds like Mapman is pushing and pushing for some reason I can't explain. You need to be honest in these forums and don't take offense when someone says they are trying out the path YOU recommend and it does not sound as good as the old fashioned... | |
| Squeze Box Question I would say let's slow down on saying a hard drive equals or exceeds the world's best transports. I just took the plunge into PC audio and am having trouble equaling the performance of my 15 year old $100 DVD player as a transport into my high end... | |
| Audio Research Ref CD8 vs Esoteric X03SE Wow, I don't get the above two posts......The man asked for bottom control and extension, not some off topic banter. Esoteric is known for this while ARC is known for a sometimes flabby bottom end. Is mushy and flabby MUSIC? I don't think so. Answ... | |
| Audio Research Ref CD8 vs Esoteric X03SE If you want bottom end control and extension this is a no brainer.....Esoteric.....stop your search. | |
| Great sounding smallish DAC, balanced output, $3K Benchmark is way overrated, in my opinion. I would get a Bryston DAC.... | |
| Which music server to buy? My guess is that when you get into the Escient, Request, Kalediscape stuff it is more you are buying the software that these companies sell. Which limits you to what you can do. Thats why I am considering either building my own or getting a music ... | |
| Which music server to buy? Ok, what about the music vault? If I run out of that into a DAC, using USB converter to something like Wadia 521.....maybe that would get me there. I think the real bottleneck would be the interface between the server and DAC. If I Use squeeze, I ... | |
| Which music server to buy? Cerrot,I noticed you have an Esoteric X03SE in your system. I had one, it was my favorite player of all time. I am nervously entering into computer audio, do you think it is possible to approach the sound of the X03SE with a server and a DAC like ... | |
| Doe's anyone have a Esoteric XO-3 cd player? Reb1208, How many 32bit machines are in existence? Not much to think about. | |
| Pass XA versus Krell FPB Amps I thought of the bigger XA amps....I am running all XLRs. I like the XA more than the X series so far. Thanks |