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| best recording of Diana Krall ? That depends on your taste. After hearing her live I don't like her CDs anymore - very clinical versus the appearance on stage!Yet I would recommend "LIVE IN PARIS" and "LOVE SCENES".Ad "THE LOOK OF LOVE" and you almost have all of her recordings,... | |
| Best Audio Format for Apple I-Pod Apple Lossless - no doubt! By the way: I just bought my first AND LAST CD (Brian Wilson "SMiLE") in iTunes store: the music is ACC encoded (!) and when I compared the download with the original CD - GEE was I shocked! ACC (or mp4 as they call it) ... | |
| How does a good mp3 sound? MP3 ALWAYS is a loss because that's what the Fraunhofer Institut set when the standard was born. No problem in hearing the difference after a couple of bars. Apple lossless according to STEREOPHILE's John Atkinson is a very good encoding format bu... | |
| Polish Music? Well here are some ideas:Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909) »Serenade«, Jerzy Fitelberg (1903-1951) »Concerto for string orchestra«, Simon Laks (1901-1983) »Sinfonietta«, Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) »Triptyque« Very important: Karol SzymanowskiSym... | |
| Wadia Owner - with or without preamp 27ix with volume setting over 90 (always) and directly into Mcintosh MC 2000 tube. That's it for me. | |
| mp3 Player For an audiophile the iPod is hard to beat in any respect! "Apple lossless" is really lossless and superior to MP3 - see John Atkinson in Stereophile. | |
| What is the quality of discs burned from itunes? CDs ripped into iTunes with "Apple Lossless" and then burnt on to CD sound remarkably brilliant. Don't know about stuff from the iTunes music store, though. | |
| SACD on its way out? Was it ever IN? | |
| hi I'm italian hi, I'm German and I suggest Sonus Faber! It's on your doorstep!Even though I own Revel Ultima System I think that Sonus Faber is a true alternative - among others.Ciao | |
| iPod with a DAC I rip all the music with Apple Lossless and there's no need to have anything converted or so IMHO. The iPod sounds brilliant over just the cinch into the pre. Try to avoid the firewire for listening, though. | |
| iPod help needed... Well, Ketchup, there IS no loss in quality. See John Atkinson's measuremenst in one of the recent STEREOPHILEs!Audiofankj - I have the same pod and I can tell you that there is space space space even after having imported the comlete Schostakowitc... | |
| Aesthetic and technological alternatives to IPOD I second Campbelr regarding the battery.Regarding your question: there simply IS no alternative technical - and let alone Aesthetics (!!) to the iPod run under Apple Lossless which is far superior to MP3 regardless its sampling rate! See J. Atkins... | |
| Accuphase voltage conversion 110/120 to 230 VAC Frandsen - it is never a problem to convert gear from US to Europe. I run an all American system in Germany.Some do it by a switch, some charge you big money like McIntosh did for converting MC 2000.Accuphase might me something in between?Good luck! | |
| Sennheiser HD590 on an airline flight? No concern! The Sennheisers - 600 in my case - along with Apple iPod 40 are the best companions in a plane. | |
| Comparing Wadia vs. Meitner I second you - Rtn1 - in everything you say about the Wadias - to the word. I likewise own that combo and I don't think that anything gets better - well, that's the reason I bought them. What you say about the comparison beween live music and list... |