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| What's the best Blu-Ray player for 300.-350. Part of the answer depends on what receiver your have. If your receiver can decode the new audio formats (DTS Master Audio and Dolby Digital TrueHD) then you can go for the less expensive versions (like Panny 35 and Sony 350). But if your receiver... | |
| Musical Fidelity's USB Ready V DAC I think one problem is that Musical Fidelity has the reputation of having some great products and also having some that do not hit the mark very well. They seem to experiment more than many and sometimes they miss. Makes it hard to generalize abou... | |
| Importing a cd on itunes. Try clicking on the header of the column with the track numbers in it. It is probably just a display issue. | |
| Musical Fidelity's USB Ready V DAC Dudley's review was for an integrated amp and this quote deals with how it matches with a particular high efficient speaker. He likes the integrated better with other speakers. But clearly this is not Dudley's favorite integrated. On the other han... | |
| Musical Fidelity's USB Ready V DAC There are a few comments about PRaT on the Head-Fi thread but there are many more comments praising the musicality. There are also some comparisons in that thread between the V Dac and the CA DACMagic 2 and my read is that the majority prefer the ... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips I did one more test - used Windows file compare (fc/b) from the command prompt and compared the files. fc found no differences. Looks like we are all set. Now it will be easy to compare iTunes and EAC files with confidence going forward. I will pr... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips I was able to get foobar to do the correct bit compare, but I think with slightly different settings than you used. When I set read offset to 0 I got compare results that the files were of different size. So I changed combined read/write compare o... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Very interesting. I will play with the offset when I get a chance. But it sounds like you figured it out. Great work. Now we can compare real differences, rather than these offset issues. I do think EAC may handle damaged disks better than iTunes.... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Blacksonejd - I tried doing the comparison with foobar and got results like yours - one track had 56 million differences. However, this seems strange to me. The CD was newly opened yesterday and has only been played twice - once to rip with iTunes... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips EAC includes an option to compare 2 wav files. It is better than trying to do traditional file compares, since it understands the format and can ignore differences that are not important. I do not know if there is a similar utility to compare Appl... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Can you compare one of the EAC ripped files that you hear a difference on and the iTunes ripped file bit by bit and see how many differences there are? | |
| Solid State Preamp recommendation for $2500? I have never been able to compare the CP-65 and the CP-700 in the same system, but my impression is that they are pretty similar in sound - both with the smooth, natural to slightly warm Classe sound. The CP-65 also has a separate power supply. It... | |
| Solid State Preamp recommendation for $2500? If you liked the Classe consider the Classe CP-65. It was the top of the line Classe (other than the Omega series) before the touchscreen Delta series. It comes up occassionally for sale here. the CP-60 was similar, just the previous model. The CP... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Brownsfan - looks like you responded while I composed. We had similar thoughts. From your previous post, the 840c does have a lot of "air". It was one of the things I liked most about the player, since I was used to it from my Classe. I think CA i... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Xenithon - I agree that the 840c is an enigma - it has a lot of great attributes, but it is just slightly off in a few areas. Your detailed observations are just the type of things lead me to my "disjointed" comment. Its hard to single out a singl... |