billbartuska
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| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Tonight, North Mississippi Allstars " World Boogie Is Coming"Particularly "Get The Snakes Out Of The Woods"I don't think it hurt my ears.... | |
| Oldest piece of gear you own Knight KN-928 integrated amp.It's in my workshop, driving Klipsch Heresys. | |
| Your first amp? Sherwood S-7800 receiver.For those of you old enough and local enough, from MisiCraft in Morton Grove Illinois. | |
| Cause of different sound between dacs "I don't use any preamp, active or passive. Makes a world of difference."+1 | |
| Budget RCA/Power Plugs for DIY And why do electric plugs have holes in the prongs? | |
| Anyone still use iPod for music storage anymore? I have 16 CDs in WAV format. It's about 7 gigabits. | |
| Best Soundcards for PC or MAC A sound card will give you features you don't need/want, at the expense of sound quality. | |
| Basic Foobar Question The only problem is file associations.You have to choose whether a double click (in Win Explorer/My Computer) opens in itunes or Foobar. Once either player is opened though, a click on a tune will play it with the open player.iTunes is the most co... | |
| Best qualified surround speakers for home theater The qualities that make for a great front speaker are the same qualities that make for a great rear speaker.Speakers just convert electricity into noise, the better they do it the better they sound. Front, rear, top, bottom, it doesn't matter. | |
| Can a single terminal speaker be bi-amped? If you put all the blue smoke back inside it will work again. | |
| Computer audio, I am not convinced yet ...... Re: USBWith true asynchronous transmission the DAC is remarkably immune to jitter because a buffer in the DAC controls the flow of the data. The DAC controls the audio transfer from the computer, ignoring the computers USB bus clock and instead s... | |
| Computer audio, I am not convinced yet ...... As for software:JPlay, a kernel streaming driver and hibernate mode.Some say win8 is best but haven't tried that yet. | |
| JPLAY - It aint subtle Uh, Jplay works with Foobar2000 which is free and it works as a stand alone player too. | |
| WebKit, WebCake? It's an Adobe thing. | |
| JPLAY - It aint subtle About 6 mo ago, after the trial, I paid the 100 euros for 5.1. I use the "mini" version with a kernel streaming driver. It seems to peel back another layer. I haven't been able to get the hibernate mode to work yet though, perhaps there's another ... |