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| Ipod and accessory power help Are you asking if there is a simple way to plug your IPOD into your home audio system?If so, then yes. Several companies make Y spliters that plug into your IPOD where the earphones normally go and then have RCA conectors at the other end. Then th... | |
| Reference books for LP/ turntable project Are you building a TT or looking to buy? | |
| Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles I also speant Sat. at the show. Reading some of the above comments just shows why we need so many different brands. We all have a different idea of what sounds good. I thought, in regards to high end speakers, that the Peak Empress were so bad to ... | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server You would be much better off using a USB DAC rather than a DAC that is fed through a Toslink connection. Using the toslink and the Benchmark there is always the issue of unwanted variations in the frequency of the incoming word-clock signal, which... | |
| "Tell the industry what you want" postingboard "Cannot the mbl's be used as reference speakers"Sure, ok. What else should be the reference for, say cars, beverage to drink, music style, movie genre, what should my house look like, what food should be the reference, what flavor of ice-cream. Ju... | |
| best digital set up 2006 For the best, especially under $2000. Forget about any transport. Start with a hard drive, cd players are for cars. It took a long time for people to get rid of their tape decks and switch to cd players. The same thing is going on with cd players ... | |
| List of top phono preamps best If having balanced circuitry is really important to you then you can scratch most of the ones you listed off your list. I owned the Groove, for a year, I demoed the Rhea for 2 weeks, I owned the ARC PH-5 for about 6 months, I demoed the ARC PH-7 f... | |
| "Dumb" Laptops Link to High End Media Center? You lost me. What's a "oversized, macho hard drived media center"? I'm not sure how many thousands of cds a laptop with the largest hard drive can hold but, if it can't hold enough than something like the Mac Mini, or any pc for that matter, and s... | |
| "Dumb" Laptops Link to High End Media Center? The answer to your question is, yes. Except, the laptop and the DAC is only a source, just like a CD player or TT. You still need your preamp and amps or a integrated amp for your speakers. And yes, it can be wireless for multiroom function. | |
| Fine Tuning Vandersteen 5s An offer gone missing I am lucky enough to live near Zargon and he was kind enough to fine tune my 5As. The improvement was like getting new speakers. | |
| pick me a cd player please-3k to 4k budget Mac Mini with a Wavelength DAC. | |
| long interconnects and short speaker cables I beleive what 9rw is letting you know is that if you do a search on this forum you will find plenty of discussion on this topic.Also, if you look up 9rw's past threads you will see that, gosh, he has only asked questions nobody has covered before... | |
| Are the Beatles the reason why modern music exists The Sgt. Pepper album came out after George Harrison paid a visit to San Francisco. Think of them more like Pat Boone making hits out of Little Richard tunes. There was music coming out of LA and San Francisco that was much more interesting than t... | |
| CJ ACT 2 v. VTL 7.5 v. ARC Ref 3 I also was able to auditon both the CJ and the ARC Ref3 in my system at the same time from two different dealers. I found them both to be first class pre amps. However, I went with the ARC. As good as the Act ll was, it did have the CJ house sound... | |
| Phono amp recommendations The Audio Research PH5 is in your price range. I was planning to buy the ARC Ref when I entered the dealers store and walked out with the PH5 instead. |