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| Best music server for the money That's why I recommended getting from companies such as silentpc or smallgreencomputers unless you are computer savvy enough to install. I guess you and I have different yardsticks :)FWIW The Zalman FX100 needed a super long screw driver that coul... | |
| KEF LS50 vs. Monitor Audio Silver2 I suspect the room is a little too large :) needs more coffee before I translate the feet into metres :)I am using the KEF LS50 in a 4x3m room. I did use it in my media room which is about 4.5x6.5m and I thought it lacked a bit of presence that my... | |
| Best music server for the money @PkoegzI don't know what you mean by computer savvy but if you built your fanless PC design, it probably excludes a large number of people. Most fanless CPU heatsinks are surprisingly difficult to install. I had a fair bit of trouble with my Zalma... | |
| Best music server for the money IMHO a proper music server isn't just a straight up computer.Care has to be taken when choosing the components. I've found a big improvement going from a regular PC to one where I have removed moving parts (fans and HDDs). And switching to a linea... | |
| KEF LS50 vs. Monitor Audio Silver2 I can't say I am a big fan of Monitor Audio gear but I do love my LS50s. I think it's telling that KEF puts the LS50 in its top tier of speakers (over the Qs the Rs etc)But it isn't the ideal speaker for large rooms. Where do you intend to use the... | |
| DK Design MKII to Bel Canto M300 upgrade? If you ask me, the M300s were the worst power amps in Bel Canto's line up - along with the S300. It's not Bel Canto's fault. It's really the ASP250 modules inside them.They simply couldn't measure up to the REF1000 and REF500 designs - and not jus... | |
| Why all the love for the TDA1541? There are in general, 2 different schools of design when it comes to DACs.The TDA1541 is from the former - more old skool design of DACs where 16 bits of data are interpreted DIRECTLY as 16 bits. These are sometimes known as R2R or ladder DACs - w... | |
| Using iPod Classic as music server AppleTV IIRC resamples the audio to 48kHz.If you want to use this route, I'd recommend getting an Airport Express which will send out 44.1kHz Both will work with Airplay from your iTunes server | |
| Using iPod Classic as music server Ah. The one you have isn't the Classic even though they share a similar form factor.The older model the iPod Gen5 and Gen5.5 (60 and 80GB max respectively) aka iPod Video actually have a pretty decent DAC inside (Wolfson). Guess it was in the old ... | |
| DAC for iPod/iPhone Have a look at iFiAudio's nano iDSD.That may be what you are looking for. They are also planning a micro (slightly larger) iDSD with improved headphone amps.You can also look at Algorhythms's Cypher Solo which I have been using. | |
| Need computer audio advice. KijankiI owned the DAC1 Pre before. It's not as free of jitter as the literature says.I had a Marantz CDP, a Squeezebox Duet and a Wadia iTransport hooked up to it and even with bit perfect copies on all 3, there was a difference. | |
| Need computer audio advice. The Squeezebox is convenient but IMHO it's not the best quality I've heard on my system. I think Steve sells a reclocker that can work with the Squeezebox that will improve things significantly tho. | |
| Need computer audio advice. You have a few options.Once you add an external hard disk, if you use iTunes, you can "uncheck" the box to keep your music library organised and prevent it from copying new songs you add into the folder you originally designated. This way, when yo... | |
| Using iPod Classic as music server I started out my hifi hobby with exactly that - an iPod Classic.It was mated to a Wadia iTransport which was hooked up to a Benchmark DAC (the DAC1 Pre was the flagship then). The Wadia was the first of its kind - an iPod digital dock - it basical... | |
| DSD and Femto Clocks The New Standard? I guess it depends on the architecture. The designer of the new PS Audio DirectStream DAC has spoken a fair bit on the choice of clocks in his new design and he argues that the criteria for a good clock in his system isn't the same spec used in Fe... |