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| Music from hard drive better than CD? Jman66 - there are some computer music players that also treat "related" songs differently if tagged that way. For example, I believe I read that you can associate two songs with iTunes so that one will always follow the other and the normal gap t... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Pardales, my quick check of i-retailers indicates the Apogee mini-DAC will set you back about $1.2K. I use a Waveterminal U24 ($160). If you went that route, it would leave you a cool $1K to find a good DAC that could also be used for other things... | |
| phantom center channel Kal-Given the difficulty of properly setting up even a two channel system to get signals to sum and interact properly, and the fact that adding a center channel magnifies the set up problem in a non-linear fashion, I suspect the trade off still mi... | |
| If Rowland made PC cases..... Hmm... The Ahanix link there didn't work. Take a look at this:http://www.ahanix.com/dvine5.htmlThe Silverstone cases look pretty nice too. | |
| If Rowland made PC cases..... There are a whole range of companies that make media PC cases... Try googling Ahanix, Antec. These puppies typically aren't cheap, but do offer a good range of in/out options and--most importantly--are typically configured to be *very* quiet...My ... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? C'mon guys, Apple is better/worse than Win in *some* circumstances. For HT/audio use, I think the Mac fits great--I bought a mini. Relevant decisional included:1. Form Factor. Apple wins on this count hands down. I'm not ashamed to have it in my l... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? I was anything but an Apple fan--I've got four Win XP computers in the house and a NAS running Win Storage Server software--but still ended up hanging a Mac Mini on the stereo to do music duty. I looked at SFF PCs, but the cost to get to something... | |
| Is Windows Media Lossless Lossless??? Jazzdude-Just like AAC, WMA *can* be lossless, I believe. There are provisions for .wav > lossless WMA that will be bit-for-bit identical if the WMA is converted back to .wav. The "author" of the WMA has some options in terms of amount of compr... | |
| Is Windows Media Lossless Lossless??? What comes out of a computer can most definitely approach a CD player. I don't use a soundcard at all--I use a waveterminal U24 USB audio device that can be plugged into my outboard DAC via coax. Its dangerously close to my DV-50s.I had huge probl... | |
| Apple Mini 'puter as a CD jukebox? You need the airport or some kind of DAC in conjunction with either a USB or firewire audio device. The Mac Mini does not have an audio output or a digital coax. I have a very hard time believing that the performance of the airport going directly ... | |
| Speaker Wire for a non-anal listener I would recommend looking at the Kimber line. You can probably skip over the $15K Black Pearl, but they have some well regarding offerings on the less expensive end as well--the 4PR and 8PR, and see what you can afford. Since they tend to run on t... | |
| I need RCA Connection help Why not chain them in series--run the equalizer outs into the dynamic expander and then back into the loop. One or the other must have a pass through function. | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Jmesarch-You may want to look at the Roku Soundbridge products, the Slimp3, and the CD30. They are network audio devices, and I think they are all "server-push" so they will allow you to run multiple remotes off a single computer. Don't know wheth... | |
| Recording line input to USB via D/A? The ART DIO has a good rep. I use a Waveterminal U24 for USB to PCM output--ignoring the A/D. The U24 also seems to have coax and toslink inputs. You might start with the U24 and then see if the ART makes an appreciable difference. | |
| Is Windows Media Lossless Lossless??? This might be interesting reading specifically on WMA:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t31615.html |