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| Mac Mini I was also in the 'it's all zeroes and ones' camp too; it just seems to make crystal clear sense, yes? But, unfortunately, my experience has just as clearly illustrated the opposite. A Mac G5 tower clearly sounds much better than a Mini or MBP in ... | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio You might want to see if you can find a pair of AVI ADM 9.1 speakers; they're a 2 way monitor from England that's very popular over there among those using a computer for source. They are an active speaker with built in pre-amp, power amps and 24/... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Jane Siberry, Cassandra Wilson, Shelby Lynne, Monica Zetterlund, Sarah Harmer,and, shamefully, Shania Twain. Ooh, and Regina Spector, Ofra Haza, Emmylou Harris, Brenda Lee and Astrud Gilberto. | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? Hi Larry,Given the context of your writings, it looks like you are establishing price by attaching values to service, product availabilty, demos, expertise. Given that there will always be customers who appreciate and happily pay for these attribu... | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? The biggest problem facing the dealer channel is its delivery mechanism. Margins have lost any grounding in reality, and so a $500 amplifier needs to be sold for $5000 in order for the manufacturer, the distributor, if any, and the retailer to sta... | |
| Is there any mini-jack converter for the Mac Mini The Blue Circle Thingee will take a USB input and output coax as well. Of course you can always go digital out (mini toslink) to toslink in on your DAC if you have that facility. I've used both and preferred the Toslink, but that's just me :-) | |
| Amp advice for Sound Lab M-2's I 've used the aforementioned JC 1's with my Soundlab A1's, found that Nuforce 9 SE V2 worked better, which came as a surprise, and am now using Bel Canto Ref 1000's. All these amps drove the A1 well, The JC 1 was great, but the Nuforce and BelCan... | |
| Newbie needs info on modest laptop speakers Take a listen to the new Acoustic Energy sub and sats for computer. amazing value at maybe $250 USD. if you want something really really nice, look at the Focal XS, i guess they might be about $550 USD. they're both just jaw dropping good. when we... | |
| Best DAC $200 and under but possibly up to $300 Blue Circle USB Thingee, $169. | |
| Love my ipod, Hate my ear buds.... The new Nuforce headphones are under a hundred bucks and very nice; they retired my Etymotics, which i always found tough to get in the ear properly anyway. might be just my ears though... | |
| Best PC and DAC Combo $700-ish Blue Circle USB Thingee with Audioengine A5, Nuforce Icon with the new S-1 speaker. | |
| The best hifi magazine? UHF mag up in Canada is earnest (sometimes too much so maybe) and is usually a good read. You get the impression that the reviewers are trying hard to get across their impressions effectively, and they come off as honest and sincere.HIFI+ is also ... | |
| Levinson, Pass labs or Parasound? Hi Yoby,I was talking to Jason last week, and he recommended the Black Noise Mains Filters from Italy. I've asked him to send one so I'll report on that experience when it's in system. Perhaps it's my electricity, but the Power Plant really raised... | |
| Levinson, Pass labs or Parasound? We just started carrying the Nuforce line in Canada so you may want to take the following with a grain of salt.I'm also driving Soundlab A1's; until recently with the JC 1. It's a great combination that's worked well for the last few years and rec... | |
| Wireless Computer Speakers Audio Engine and Kanto speakers can be made wireless with an Apple Express plugged in; both have great sound for the dollar. |