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| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? Henry -hard to see the walls... but if I were after the ultimate I would take both the wireless and the Toslink out of the design, wireless first.Wireless is prone to interference which a hardwired solutions are not. You have a choice of Ethernet ... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? Onhwy61 - the data is not compressed in a wireless transmission - its just data and there is not much of it at that. What makes this all work is the small size of the files and the pipe required.Just for the record - since I didn't know I took a t... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? I totally agree with Rdc2000 and KthomasiTunes is one of the crown jewels of the Apple empire. It is tightly coupled to their revenue model. There are some 125 million copies of iTunes out there.In plain english this means that Apple has a world c... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? It's the standard if you are using a Macintosh. Numerous threads will confirm that it can be converted back to WAV or AIFF with exactly the same number of bits.As for why not use AIFF. AIFF and WAV are old standards. They were never designed to wo... | |
| Anyone got a "Best of" jazz CDs for 2007? I always like to look at the Grammy nomineeshttp://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/#10 | |
| What is the best place to buy tubes? Brandon at TubeWorld is extremely knowledgeable and stands behind his product with a money back guarantee.So does Brent Jesse at http://www.audiotubes.com/.As does Dennis Boyle at Chimera Labs who does not have as wide a stock but can often hook y... | |
| HELP ... Mac MIni and Bel Canto DAC3 Problems ... Remember that the USB cable not only carries data it carries power. Not all hubs are created equal - often one that has its own power supply will work. That is most likely why everything was fine when you plugged it in to the Mac itself. | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Hi - glad to be of help.Don't use AIFF - you need the metadataAs far as getting a digital signal out of the Mac Toslink, DAC, WiFi and Ethernet are all options. And who knows what Steve will have for us next week.About SPDIF., Everyone is amazed a... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Hi H -obviously you replied to Rbstehno before reading my reply to your questions.The absolute best file format to use on a Mac with iTunes is Apple Lossless. Apple Lossless contains exactly the same data as a WAV or AIFF file which are both uncom... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Hi -1. What is the right DAC to get? you can use the one you have. If you don't have one I suggest a USB DAC or a Squeezebox depending on what and where you want your systems2. What is the right format to import files into iTunes for the best soun... | |
| Are Sound Waves Able To Penetrate Canvas Painting? Thinking that in a movie theater, the center speaker is behind the screen. If you look closely at the screen material, you will see that it is perforated with fine holes. Similarly there are a lot of banner and billboard surface materials (media) ... | |
| USB Ext Sound Card Vs. Squeebox The USB spec is 15' before you need to add a repeater. One reason for this is that USB carries 5v and one can assume that the voltage drops below spec at that distance.I highly recommend the Opticis Fiber Optic USB cable to anyone who wants to run... | |
| Warner and Blu ray? LA Times this morning declared the format wars over in favor of Blu-Ray. According to the handy dandy chart provided, with the addition of Warner BluRay now has 75% of all the studio contenthttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainme... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Good question.You bet impedance is an issue, actually the issue when pairing a pre and an amp. Impedance matching - or mismatching - between the pre output and amp input is the key to a successful pairing or two boxes that just aren't happy togeth... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Just to represent the other 50%I like my Sonic Euphoria passive a lot. The last active I had created a lot of glare which is now gone. The active before that did not provide enough gain. The one before that sounded flat. (Supratek, Joule, BAT - no... |