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| Inexpensive Headphone DAC Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt is a clear winner. They are based out of Irvine, CA but the Cobalt is made in China. | |
| Streamer and DAC Combo or separates Thank you very much dbtom2 for your detailed response. Really appreciated.Yes, my music library (amongst other data) is currently sitting in a 10TB drobo NAS. This NAS is connected to a Roku4 via the home network for video. However, I am in the pr... | |
| Streamer and DAC Combo or separates Thank you both lalitk and dbtom2.1. If I am going for streamer and DAC separately, I will have a budget of around USD 10K, but if I am able to go for a combo unit (and if this turns out to be the way forward) I am hoping to spend around 7-8K.2. I ... | |
| Which iPod? For the benefit of anybody reading this archived thread, the best performance portable music player I have found at the moment is the Cowon iAudio7 player. The 16GB version comes just under USD 200. It suppports FLAC and works great with Shure ear... | |
| future of 2 channel CD sound I agree with Chris that BlueRay (BD) is likely to be the last physical media. However, now that the hi-def format war between HD-DVD and BlueRay is more or less sorted (BlueRay emerging victorious) there is a new development in the horizon.The det... | |
| Room size for ML Prodigy ? Chris,Thanks for the insight. If I buy them, I will be using 70W 845 based monoblocks on the panels and a good SS on the woofers.Funny you seem to think the Prodigy sounds better than the Summits. I briefly listened to the Summits when I was in US... | |
| Which iPod? Rob,I may be wrong, but as far as I know, Apple Lossless Compression is propeitory.Cheers,Amal | |
| Anyone listened to ML Vantage? Denf,I was thinking the same. Unless everyone who had a chance to listened to them bought and busy listening more, rather than spending time infront of their computers :)I've got the brochure with pics, but I am not sure if the panel is the same s... | |
| Which iPod? I always thought the apple-appeal for the audiophiles was the Losless compression (ALC) which was tested by the likes of Stereophile and confirmed to be the most superior compression available today.I do agree with the ergonomics and the user frie... | |
| Which iPod? Rob,I agree with most of what you said. I'd love to have the WMA capability, if I could get my hands on another player with decent storage. What other players have sonics better than or at least at par with iPod? sorry to ask too many questions, b... | |
| Which iPod? Akaddict,Have you had a chance to compare the audio quality between the 60GB Video iPod with the 20GB audio only version? While I have nothing inherantly against a device that features a color display and video capabilities, I'm wondering if the p... | |
| Which iPod? Tvad,Isn't this the beauty of this hobby? I spent countless hours reading and listening to Shure E4C against the Etymotic ER4-P and decided on Shure and was going to buy it this evening, and then, Bham!!Thanks a lot for the advise. While I came ac... | |
| Full-range vs Hybrid Sedona,I have listend to Martin Logan CLS-IIzs and their various hybrid implementations. I personally prefer the nuetrality and the honest presentation of the CLS's. Martin Logan made the Window-sized full range panels when they were struggling to... | |
| Anyone familar with the Swan line of speakers? I am in China at the moment and just came back from listening to Swans 4.2F main speakers. I was quite impressed with the sound and was about to start a new thread when I stumbled upon this one. They are priced under RMB 2,900.00 here (1USD=8.25RM... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Here in the Middle East, the choice is vast and fuel is not expensive.My answers are:1. 2003 Mercedes C200 (fully loaded, except GPS Nav)2. Boxter-S or Toyota Land Cruiser VX-R (would love the 911 Turbo or the Lexus LX470, but beyond reach!)3. Fer... |