cytocycle
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| How to make sound less detailed with warmth? Take out your 1.5" thick butcher block cutting board from the kitchen and put it under your rotel CD player and also try one under your preamp. If your components are on MDF, I found that it sucks the life out your components when damping.You coul... | |
| Your thoughts on preamp/processors If you are just having video switching problems you can buy an Oppo HDMI switcher which has a remote and you can program the harmony to control that. 3 HDMI sources into 1.When you get down to this level of programming of delays, the Harmony produ... | |
| Your thoughts on preamp/processors That so sucks.... the remote is simple.. the biggest problem you are having is switching video and audio.. she probably doesn't get it.. I never had problems with my 3 EAD's... but the hardest thing explaining to (not all...but most) women is that... | |
| USB Ext Sound Card Vs. Squeebox There were no sound difference between wireless and wired except for when my wireless router would drop (thanks to my neighbors cordless phones... changing my wireless channel away from stock and going to 5.8ghz phones solved this problem) Of Cour... | |
| wireless/USB audio to receiver WAV files don't have anyway to tag DRM on them so ripping CD's to wav should be fine.... WMA is ripe with DRM, just like Apples formats... | |
| Turntable will share wall with 52" flat panel ... Check out the Salamander Chameleon Series.. or check my system thread to see pictures.. it's low 22" high and 46" wide and for $499 you can get a plasma mount on the back, my Berlin model has a glass top, which you could probably take and get cut ... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Brontotx: I didn't mention that I was going to be recording HDTV across my gigabit network to the NAS so speed was extermly important plus the extra 750gig of space the extra drive provided. I would not recommend the Thecus NAS's for the weak at h... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? If you have a big collection and plan on running slimserver on a NAS, the new MySQL based Slimserver needs more CPU power than the Infrant ReadyNas NV+ has if you plan on doing cover art. I too bought from Aegis but bought a Thecus N5200Pro (5x750... | |
| Denon DL103R with Shindo Monbrison Since we are beating a dead horse thread..You also forgot to add the price of the $600 Shindo interconnect from the stepup to the preamp.$400 cart + $1k Transformer + $600 interconnect = $2100 That's a pretty nice cart! | |
| N802 + Velodyne DD-18??? The 802's only go down solid into the 30hz range.. a subwoofer is an excellent addition, plus this lets you put the 802's where they sound best and the sub where it sounds best! I used to own an F1800XR Velodyne 18" sub and went down to a DD15 and... | |
| best sub 1k phono stage? +2 for the Dynavector P75 which even embarasses some more expensive preamps quite well. I image the new revision is better. A really good match with Dynavector carts for a bargain killer. But it is a quiet and unbelieve match with low output MC! | |
| Largest Impact - Arm or Cart? Your system doesn't show a Record Cleaner...so I would vote for a record cleaner first and then you might consider the magnetic bearing upgrade for your Clearaudio Table. | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? Since this old thread got updated, I went with the Thecus 5200 Pro with 5 750gig SATA Seagate drives in a RAID 5 configuration. So I have 2.7 Terrabytes of usable space which is already filled. This NAS is 2-3 times faster than moving files from a... | |
| Multiple Vulnerabilities In FLAC the risk is if you aren't locally processing your collection from CD's to FLAC.The risk is if you download FLAC files off the internet they could be loaded with an extra virus payload.So in otherwords it is not relevant to people on this forum, ex... | |
| DAC Recommendations Tact now makes a 2.2mini that doesn't require a computer to do room correction, you lose the ability to do analog inputs and some of the more advanced PC settings.I haven't found any low end dacs that sounded that good other than my Tact 2.2x (mod... |