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| iTunes Using iTunes - ideally on a Mac, since for various reasons iTunes does not seem to perform as well on a PC...There are two uncompressed formats; WAV and AIFF. An uncompressed format is what comes on your CD. iTunes can handle WAV and AIFF files bu... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations If you love "Some Cats Know" listen to Maria Muldaur doing it 0n "Woman Alone With The Blues". Great singer, great album.This thread has been great - I have been listening to a lot of Anita O' Day and Helen Merrill as a result. | |
| Why Do Audio Engineers Use Different Speakers? Fishboat - you hit the conundrum on the head. Layers of sound, room ambience, fast transients, rock steady pinpoint imaging. Many of these "desirable" audiophile characteristics can only exist in a live, one take environment. Anything else is simp... | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? Back to the car dealerships - women cite hating the entire car dealership experience. It's the biggest problem the car mfgrs have since guess what, women influence/decide almost all high ticket family decisions... and also have plenty of discretio... | |
| CDs to harddrive to DAC wtihout a PC? Sound quality will be better then all but the very best CDPsThere are a myriad of ways to access and organize your musicCost will vary - go to an Apple Store to see the various models and pick the one best suited to everything you want to use it f... | |
| How to insure shipping large speakers? Would seem that you would want to/have to palletize the boxes. And perhaps pay a premium for a forklift to deliver it to a non business/non loading dock address.Here is an idea I have yet to find any mention of. See if your home owners insurance w... | |
| Why Do Audio Engineers Use Different Speakers? It's a very good question and one that comes up often. Let me try to paint a picture for you.First, all studio control rooms are heavily treated to minimize any acoustic aberrations. Studio monitors are very flat across the frequency range, capabl... | |
| Computer music server PC or Apple???? Let me quote from a thread that is running concurrently on the issue of remote control:4est who seems to be a real Mac fan wrote:"The (i)Mac will come with a remote for "Front Row" (a mac media management program) and you will be able to play iTun... | |
| Computer music server PC or Apple???? This is a fine way to go. Ther Mini is very quiet. Not familiar with it but I am sure that the hard drive you chose is fine - size is certainly right, will hold a couple of thousand CDs. Firewire is fine, USB2 will also work and there are more cho... | |
| CDs to harddrive to DAC wtihout a PC? Quick answer - no way to go from a CD transport with having a computer in the middle.Easy answer - no need for a CD transport anyway. Get a Mac, insert the CD in the CD drive and import to iTunes - done.If you don't have a DAC, get a USB DAC. If y... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Brontotx - one of the very cool things about SLIM software is that it is open source - the apps you are describing are most likely just that.The flip side is the "hard to get working" part. This is also true of EAC which is the "awesome" PC rippin... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Jpod -Not sure what's the latest and greatest as mentioned above but to date iTunes is redundant to the SlimServer software when it comes to actual playback over an SB. In other words, the SB software provides the same functionality of iTunes(not ... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Bronto - very elegant solution! And incredibly cost effective.For those that are still struggling a bit with all this, might I add that nothing prevents him from also using a computer with a USB DAC on the same network - of course the computer doe... | |
| USB Ext Sound Card Vs. Squeebox Guys - no difference between USB and Ethernet in terms of bandwidth - at least not that is relevant to this discussion. Very little data is required for audio - remember USB1.1 works just fine.Hardwired (ie USB, Ethernet, FireWire etc) is always g... | |
| USB Ext Sound Card Vs. Squeebox Of course in the interests of science you could run an Ethernet cable to the SB and see if any of what you are hearing is related to the wireless transmission...As Onhwy61 points out, this is all about implementation. And at a certain point price.... |