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| squeezebox versus airport express Steverw, you can buy quiet PCs. I use a Serener fanless EPIA small form factor PC with a single NEC spinpoint drive. Its dead silent. Quieter than my laptop.I want to say 16/44.1 comes out to about 1.4 mbps. Increasing the number of bits/sample to... | |
| Anyone know WMA? Hmmm... Gordon is a very smart guy, but I would be very cautious about a 50' run of coax, esp. w/a couple grand price tag. I had a set up where I ran a 30' run of toslink to a DAC and switched from that to a 30' run of USB and a short toslink run,... | |
| Does "ripping" quality improve if you......... You have *never* bought a bad CD? Wow. I think, in a collection of about 1600 or so, there are probably 3 with at least one back track. Still, that is only what, like 0.2%? Not too bad... | |
| squeezebox versus airport express Having used the slimserver core web server, I'll stick by my assertion that Apple w/iTunes is a better UI. Not a perfect UI, but better than what you get with slimserver. B'sides, if you are going to use a laptop anyway, what is the point of an SB3? | |
| Does "ripping" quality improve if you......... Actually, I was talking about CDs bought off the shelf. I've got several CDs that won't play in my DV50s, my Theta David, or my Sony. But, I was able to use EAC to create WAV files that play beautifully--actually, I was able to burn replacement CD... | |
| Does "ripping" quality improve if you......... Bombaywalla, I'll disagree on one point. Virtually everyone has had CDs that are unreadable or skip in even high end transports. Throw those in a CD ROM drive and start up EAC in secure mode and you will get a good copy. It may take 24 hours and s... | |
| squeezebox versus airport express Hmmm... I have a bunch of SB3s, and its pure marketing BS to claim an unmitigated victory for SB3s over AEX. Sure, SB3 may have a small remote, but with the small remote comes small UI and small functionality. You use the AEX in conjunction with a... | |
| How many audio systems do you have in your home? Do you have add additional numbers to your count if there are enough spare parts lying around in a room to make a couple more systems? ;) | |
| Are we all destined to be "womenless" audiophiles? Oh god, not this one again... ;)Try: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1129658203&read&keyw&zzwomen | |
| Anyone know WMA? I haven't really used EAC to duplicate CDs. I think, if I recall correctly, you can ask EAC to create a CUE Sheet (image?), then then it to write the CUE Sheet to a blank CD, which burns the songs in order with identical between song gaps as the o... | |
| Digital Cable - Pixelization during motion Not all cable plant is created equal. In some areas--actually--in some parts of some areas, the S/N can be quite good and in others, the S/N quite bad. Whether the operator has upgraded plant recently can also be a factor, as well as what got inst... | |
| Digital Cable - Pixelization during motion All of this stuff sadly depends upon things outside of your control. If you really want to optimize video, check out http://www.avsforum.com--those guys are nuts for video the way the a'gon users are nuts for audio.The problem with CATV is that a ... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... A lot of the distilleries are offering their own cask strength or special bottlings these days--those are going to be really safe. But, I see your point with respect to the private labelings... With that said, there are reputable specialty bottler... | |
| Digital Cable - Pixelization during motion Er, if you don't like your TV, you can wait a year and then pony up $60 for the "Season 912 of American Idol" box set. ;) | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Mmm... single cask is different... Something can be cask strength, but still blended from among a number of similarly aged to even out the flavor--I'd almost guarantee that Macallan's 15yo "cask strength" offering is a single malt cask strength, b... |