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| Best Amp with Magnepan 3.6's Bel canto Ref1000s will sound great on them. They will batter those maggie panels into life and give you that bit extra in dynamics, separation, deep bass, and volume while remaining ICE cool...! Add a nice preamp maybe a nice tube one to flesh ou... | |
| I need help with my Equipment addiction Hi Macdadtexas,just to add to your audiophile pain, and as an ex maggie owner and maggie lover who was there too, Audio Research+Magnepan=happiness. Just how long the happiness lasts is another question.As I said earlier, buy more music as it help... | |
| New Gear? Happy birthday. I would say buy some Deoxit contact cleaner,cotton buds, and Walker audio SST contact enhancer for your tubes pins and various contact points. Then do those shelves! | |
| I need help with my Equipment addiction Buy more music or spend more time away from the hot seat! Other wise you will ended up listening to the same tracks again and again to hear the difference between this power cable or that. An obsessive personality is part of being an audiophile I ... | |
| Wire the House A/C or get Power Conditioner? Do both. But if money and laziness is a factor, get a regenerator and good power cables, especially to use as input to the regenerator.The best way forward ultimately has already been outlined above. (dedicated single runs of good quality cables f... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Rrsclyde,I convert 44.1k/16 bit files to 44.1k/24 bit, then that output is sent to my upsampler which upsamples it again to DSD. Aside from the DSD upsampling, the 44.1k/24 bit seems to make the high frequencies have more air and sound generally c... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Hi Antipodes_audio,I think you have to be careful here. Remember that DCS dont have firewire as I believe you are thinking of it. The firewire on DCS devices is a DSD connection, not a computer connection. Therefor you still need an interface for ... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Antipodes_audio,good luck to you. One of my best friends lives not too far from you. A beautiful country.I had a quick look at your cables. I would normally be up for trying a set out, but I am very happy with my cabling at the moment. I use the A... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... I didnt mean to turn this thread into a bashing of audiophile vendors or manufactures. Everyone is trying to make a living. It is a niche industry.I guess we all here on the 'gon love this hobby, one would hope that people within it would show som... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Antipodes audio, Drubin,my point exactly...Ps Antipodes by BS I was referring to some audiophile cable manufactures in general. Not you necessarily of course (unless you have been eying up snakes in your spare time!). I did not know you made cable... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Antipodes_audio,The firewire connection is worrying too. The BS is just starting there too. I am not sure if firewire 800 suffers the same issues as 400, regarding the total length of cable ( I think the longest 400 is 5m in length). I was surpris... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Hi Antipodes_audio,there seem to be many deals in place regarding online libraries. The frightening part of it is the people who created the music see very little in return. It really is bad, but that is another topic.For my work I use many differ... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Hi Antipodes_audio,for the time being as long as your files in your library are universal, ie WAV or AIFF etc. I personally feel it is just a waiting game. It is all fine and better than it was. It will get better and probably cheaper too. I use i... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Hi Antipodes_audio,I have had the same experience. I have found that sending cds ripped as AIFFs on the mac in itunes without Amarra, with the digital output settings set to 24bit 44.1, and sent to my upsampler causes quite a change in "air" to th... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... In many ways I agree with our passionate friend Blindjim. Unfortunately in the real world bits are not only bits because they get transported from one place to another through all manner of software and circuits. It would seem the moving of the bi... |