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| Squeezebox upgrade options for $500-600 You ought to live with the thing for a while before you have it upgraded. Otherwise, you'll never know if the upgrade was any good.Your desire to not use a preamp is important. I'm not sure how the SB does volume control, but it's probably not an ... | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? Set the Mac Mini's Audio Midi application to 16/44, not 24/96, unless your files are actually 24/96. The Remote app from Apple for controlling iTunes from the iPod Touch is superb. There is a shareware application to control the Squeezecenter (and... | |
| Dynaudio Confidence C1: looking for speaker cable. I use Empirical Audio Clarity7 with my C1's and think it's a terrific match. However, as I once read, it may make more sense to call speaker cables "amplifier cables." In other words, the amplifier-SC combination may be as important as the SC-spea... | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter The way people are using the Lynx is to take its AES/EBU out into their DAC of choice. | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter I'm using a Lessloss PC on the DAC. Man, you sure have a lot of options in the PC world. From what I hear, the Lynx AES16 PCI card is the hot ticket. Can also be used in the large desktop Mac, but I don't have one of those. | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter You're on a Windows machine, so I'm not sure what your options are. The newer Mac Minis (all Macs, I think, as well as the Airport Express router) have a miniplug headphone jack which also provides Toslink digital audio out. You need a miniplug to... | |
| Ripping CDs to lossless in Itunes.. HiFi approved? My experience has been different from Ml8764ag's. I prefer the sound of the Toslink out of the Mac Mini rather than USB (use a good Toslink cable). If you are using one of the leading edge USB DACs (Wavelength, Empirical, UltraFi), none of which I... | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter Try Toslink, but get a good cable. I'm using the WireWorld and it sounds pretty darn good. Van den Hul makes one with mini Toslink on one end, though I think you can only get that in lengths under 2M. I'm using an adapter at the mac end, which I i... | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter My early impressions of the DAC3 support Blindjim's findings. It is dry (not sure I could define that, however), and the bass is superb. What I am enjoying about it, as I try to decide which direction to pursue in terms of music server solutions, ... | |
| Review: Bel Canto Design e One DAC III DA converter I just found this thread. I have a Lavry and have a Bel Canto on the way. I'll come back and share my feelings about the comparison. And I'm also curious about the PS Audio, modded or not, as well as the new Bryston DAC, which seems to offer just ... | |
| Lindsey Buckingham Thanks for the recommendations, guys. I'm also a fan and think he is one greatly under-appreciated guitarist. I have his last release, which he recorded at home and on which he did most of the parts himself. There's some great music on it, but the... | |
| Alesis masterlink arrived Do any of you owners have a feel for how good the Masterlink would be as one's primary CD transport? I.e., is it a good transport sonically and in terms of the user experience (remote, ease of use, responsiveness, etc.) | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? Here's what I mean by "too black." When the music sounds as if it is being performed in deep outer space, where there is no atmosphere and it is cold and sterile. In contrast to music being made in a performance hall or even in a studio. Hmmm....n... | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? Van den Hul makes Toslink cables with mini jacks on one end and standard on the other, which is perfect for Mac Mini or notebook applications. Unfortunately, my Lavry DAC has what appears to be a slightly non-standard Toslink input and the VDH's i... | |
| Any insight with the Berkeley Alpha DAC ..?? Thanks -- great comments! |