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| Mapletree Super Stealth Monobloc I have Mapletree Super Stealth Monos and am very pleased with them. They are the best amps I have for driving my JBL 1000 Arrays and a few other high efficiency speakers I have. The power rating seems mightily conservative as I have never noticed ... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB Well, not quite perfect Firedog55 (your comments about the Hiface). A number of devices I have tried sound a lot better than the Hiface, albeit for more money. | |
| dcs debussy Suteetat, I understand what you are saying. But I find that for the best sound, it is best to upsample all my files to 24/176.2 or 24/196 offline before storing them on hard drive. I use izotope for this. So I find the problem you mention to be mo... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Almarg, I suggest you look up Cic's Music Player and www.audioasylum.com for the discussions there. CMP, amongst other things, is a shell that automatically turns off a lot of unnecessary services in XP. It then works with cPlay to play music file... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Sidssp, sometimes it is just a matter of selecting them in iTunes and telling it to convert them to Apple Lossless and you are done. I had the same problem, IIRC, with Apple Lossless files in another context, and that cured it. | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... The BIOS burn in comments I was referring to have been made by guys making CMP PCs, and their claim is that to assess a BIOS change you need to make the change and then let it burn in. This is after the hardware burn in you refer to. | |
| Why don't gold based cable fans try Synergistic It might be very difficult if one went into the blind testing straight away. I can usually pick up the key characteristics of a system within three tracks, if the tracks are familiar, and so after that, if I knew both cables, and so what I was lis... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... You never know. Changes to a PC's BIOS are claimed to have a burn in time. I have better things to test than that one. But when I first tried Amarra, I heard it as different, but was not convinced it was better. It seems more like an EQ difference... | |
| Why don't gold based cable fans try Synergistic Hi Vandermeulen. I don't doubt your findings, but would like to make some observations about blind testing. Again this is only my opinion so please don't roast me for it.The sound that arrives at our ear, is not the same as the sound our brain per... | |
| Why don't gold based cable fans try Synergistic If I may add a couple of comments, without straying towards promotion of our cables. Apologies if I don't get that balance right.A single set of LCR figures for a cable does not fully describe a cable. This is heresy to many EEs, but when the curr... | |
| Just a question. I prefer to build a 'no moving parts' PC, but when you switch to battery power on a laptop there is definitely a liquidity to the sound that isn't there with my desktops. Overall, however I prefer the solidity of the sound I get with the desktops.... | |
| Windows 7 for Audio or Video, yes - No? I spent a few months optimising some PCs for audio use, trying out various players, including Cics Music Player. For each of XP, Vista and 7 it was beneficial to turn a lot of the services off. It was also beneficial to eliminate moving parts from... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Still very relevant though Audiofun. The interesting thing I found, apart from the Mac sounding better, was how they also sounded different. The best sound I could get out of a PC sounded a little hazy and soft, which I relate to the sound of a co... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Hi Dan (Drubin). I have continued to read your posts, even though I stopped contributing here a long time ago. I guess I am back, particularly to discuss computer audio, which interests me a lot these days - and active open baffle speakers.Chadeff... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... There are some cynical repackaging jobs that go on, for sure, especially with cabling. Zero offence taken.For me, I was a long time member here under the name Redkiwi, till I got to the point where my own cables were better to my ears than my favo... |