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| Ideas for a seaprate cd player and blu-ray player. Joe -take a look at the Oppo products. Their DVD players do dvd-a and sacd and of course CDs. They have a new BluRay that will start shipping soon which I think will do all of the formats.very tough to beat their combination of price, features and... | |
| Help to upgrade my surround processor Doc - good fun and nice solution - all I'm suggesting is that there is nothing to invest in - it's all a lateral move - I had a Mits 35 CRT - lovely blacks to be sure - use the degauss function based on your compass orientation - makes a differenc... | |
| Help to upgrade my surround processor Drj -The big driver of DSP design is new audio formats. I know this is an obvious thing to say but laser hasn't changed for a very long time. And an older DVD unit is probably only doing the basic Dolby ProLogic format.(The one thing you didn't me... | |
| which speaker cables to buy? Take a look at the Supra offering - there are a number of choices, They usually advertise on the Gon so easy to find. I built a set of cables using their Ply 3.4 and then covered them with black Techflex. They look very nice - in fact you basicall... | |
| American made USB DAC's Sbank -I have owned a TriVista fully modded by Parts Connexion, a Brick and a Cosecant Silver. They are all excellent. With the right SPDIF cable the TriVista certainly held its own and may have bettered the old (pre-asynch) Brick. I had sold the ... | |
| Valab DAC Question Sorry - I don't think that there is a way around it - I was hoping to A/B two different USB DACs - that's when I figured it outEvery multi-input DAC I have ever had gives preference to one input - in some cases you need to throw a switch, in other... | |
| American made USB DAC's At a bit lower price point is Scott Nixon - one of the first to build a USB DAC. He has a new line out. | |
| Help - Mac Mini not sending audio via usb port Altrnatively, find the Audio MIDI Setup panel and put a copy in your Dock. You can select the Output directly from it. Note that the USB driver will not appear until the USB device is plugged in and on. | |
| Valab DAC Question Yes - that is the case on my and probably all Macs.When you select the USB driver in the Audio MIDI Setup tool, you turn off the native "Built-In Audio" output which is what feeds the optical output.FWIW I believe that the Valab prioritizes the US... | |
| Speaker recommendations Let me put in a plug for as much Meadowlark as you can find for the budget. I own the Kestrel HotRods - bought them here for $625 when I downsized to reallocate to my home theater rig.Time-aligned drivers, first order crossovers, and transmission ... | |
| Recommendations - DAC $500 w/ USB Consider the Taiwanese units - Valab at $200 shipped, Keces at $275 and various Paradisea units from $350 on upAll offer unbeatable price performance ratios | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana - I have been at this for five years now - in that time I found one SPDIF I liked - it was $350 used for 1 meter - the old Stealth VaridigI have helped an awful lot of people figure this out - literally hundreds of posts here and hundreds mor... | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana - I don't want to get in a pissing match here and as long as you are happy, that's all that matters. BUT for the newbs out there, please consider these quotes from the Analog Research website - or should I say sales pitch:...when it comes to ... | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana -Bluejean delivers great value for the money. And I suspect they will build you a real 75ohm cable.That said, no one runs SPDIF that far - the implementation at both ends would have to be near perfect. Once you get into the fact that there is... | |
| Squeze Box Question Wayne -There is an old phrase, horses for courses. The bottom line is you don't need a Squeezebox unless you want music where you don't have a computer.As I tried to point out in my first post, all computer audio works basically the same but there... |