blackstonejd
Responses from blackstonejd
| "DCS Delius" DAC direct to Amp? The Delius is meant to be run directly into an amplifier unless you have a SUPREME, megabucks preamplifier like the Ayre KX-R or something like that. It has a superb preamplifier on board. It is very transparent. If you don't like what you hear, y... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Get two PS Audio Noise Harvesters. Smooths things out nicely. | |
| Pat Metheny Fans, Great Suggestions Please ?? Secret Story and We Live Here are both Geffen releases. All of the ECM CDs have pretty good sound. Since none have been remastered except on the Rarum Selected Works disc, I suspect the Vinyl is better. | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers If your goal is the best possible sound today, splurge on components and then add reasonable capable speakers. Don't cap a mediocre system off with great speakers unless you are committed to upgrading those components down the road. Great speakers... | |
| How to configure a PC for outstanding Audio? I've been using the Windows 7 release candidate on my PC and Laptop and it is the best operating system I've ever used. | |
| The Beatles albums finally all remastered I hope it is better than Yellow Sub. I thought the Yellow Sub remaster was sort of hard and edgy sounding. | |
| WAV file I meant to say same basic directory structure as the original. Keep it simple, i.e., C:/iTunes/ or C:/documents/mymusic/iTunes or whatever. I have found the best solution is to keep a drive that is totally separate from you system disc just for ma... | |
| WAV file AIFF is like .Wav in every way except it supports tags. .Wav is not really a workable format for long term archiving because of the lack of tags. You can preserve the metadata for .wav files in iTunes by using the export library function and then ... | |
| Bedroom System DAC Suggestions? Do you have a notebook computer you could use as a Transport? I would consider an asynchronous USB DAC from Wavelength. | |
| My First USB DAC Sounds Dull, Please Help Unless it is asynchronous USB, the USB interface is not very good. S/PDIF is better. | |
| Sqeezebox 3, Apple Lossless or FLAC? Flac is also Squeezebox/Transporters native format. | |
| Sqeezebox 3, Apple Lossless or FLAC? You should be using uncompressed AIFF to take compression out of the sound equation--PERIOD.If you have to choose between those two, FLAC sounds more like the original to my ears. Apple Lossless always sounds like something is missing to me. | |
| PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC At that price it would have to outperform Ayre QB-9 and what are the chances of that happening? | |
| dCS Puccini Clock Elgar, if you have the stack without firewire, that means that you aren't upsampling all the way to DSD? I would think Pagannini would be a considerable upgrade just by adding the DSD functionality. | |
| Squeze Box Question HIGHLY recommend you use .aiff and not apple lossless, by the way. |