davide256
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| Magnum Dynalab 308 drive Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6? I drive MG 1.7s with a Musical Concepts modded Hafler DH-200 in a room thats about 25x 24... 100 watts per channel into 8 ohms. About the only thing that taxes that amount of power so far is the Telarc SACD of the 1812 overture with cannons. | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 since this is a laptop its likely that you are only willing to go so far, i.e. you have to strike a compromise between a dedicated server and a multitasking machine. The biggest degradation to audio transparency is (a) the audio hardware limitatio... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? unless you use kernel streaming you will get a lifeless experience playing music back. I don't find ASIO or WASAPI acceptable for audiophile level of playback. | |
| Power conditioning for computer audio Barking up the wrong tree, digital out from your MAC doesn't care about internal noise. Your MAC would be malfunctioning if 1's and 0's weren't being read correctly inside the case.But your external D/A and analog equipment does care about how cle... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? kernel streaming bypasses the windows kernel. Foobar 2000 supports it. Windows media player, Media monkey and most other players get stepped on by legacy Windows manipulation of the audio stream with no options to bypass using kernel streaming. iT... | |
| Happy with USB DAC? Some rambling included.. if you don't have a great DAC or a $1000+ budget, buy an HRT Music Streamer. If you do, buy a Hi face Evo or like converter to feed your good DAC with low jitter digital inputComputer sounds cards are a waste of time.Use Foobar2000 with the kernel... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? the Bryston is an excellent DAC, I've auditioned it... the problem is computer technology. I have several PC's and have done the same PC vs CD player comparison over SPDIF into a DAC. The CD player always wins hands down. Where the game changes is... | |
| Tweaking the Magnepan 1.7s I have had my pair of 1.7's since about April. Owned MG1B's and MGIIIA's for a long time before, listened and liked the MG1.6's but not enough to pull out my wallet for the difference. The 1.7's have that critical quality for bass realism, weight ... |