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| Ditch HT? Upgrade help please... After poking around a bit... Would anyone care to offer an opinion as to how the dCS Purcell/Delius combo might sound in my system without a preamp? Would there be a benefit to adding a pre with the dCS digital rig?(I suppose I should have clarifi... | |
| selectable output mute feature ??? I thought a lot of preamps had a selectable output, it isn't something Mac has a monopoly on. My Theta has a "Main/Remote" switch. | |
| mp3 player: rip programs, best format? Pbowne, UV is right. LAME can be configured within EAC to rip with -alt preset extreme, a VBR format. EAC will call LAME as an external call, and then rip the next track. Much easier, although it still takes a long time.BTW, 320 kpbs VBR doesn't m... | |
| Progressive Scan Even progressive scan DVD players output at only 480p, for the most part. There are a few that upsample (?) to HD formats, but there is no "HD" DVD format yet. There is an HD video tape deck (JVC, I think, makes one), but I don't think any DVD rec... | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly Audioengr, how did you mod the transit? I've heard of people effectively wiring a coax connector in lieu of the LED (or whatever the light source is), but I gather the "real" way of doing it involves some 5V transformer or something? Any pointers ... | |
| TV Picture diffenences between HD and non HD The option to stretch non-widescreen (doesn't have to be HD, can include DVD, for example) is generally to prevent burn-in on certain sets. I don't believe LCD is subject to burn-in, so I would just display it boxed, whether the signal comes in ov... | |
| Do power conditioners help with unwanted hum/noise There are some other solutions for cable connections--like the "magic box" or somesuch. If you think the hum might be system related (i.e., post power conditioner), could you try unplugging other components to see if it goes away? | |
| USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions... Thanks for all the good input... Anyone have any feedback on the various devices out there--Edirol/Waveterminal/M-Audio? I don't like the transit b/c it doesn't have coax out.Also, in terms of computer interface issues, if I'm running the hard dri... | |
| Do power conditioners help with unwanted hum/noise Sometimes they can help. The most graphic illustration I can think of is that I used to have a pair of Martin Logan Prodigy speakers. They had a little blue "ML" logo that lit up on the front when a signal was present; if a signal was not present ... | |
| USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions... Sorry, noticed a typo--meant 44.1 kHz sample rate instead of 24 kHz in my original post.Now I'm even more confused, and I'll be the first to admit that sample rates are not my forte. Are all CDs 16 bit/44.1 kHz sampling rate? (If there are CDs in ... | |
| Networked Media Player. I've actually got four 250 GB Lacie USB 2.0 drives. I had the space, and it was a bit cheaper than going with one humungous drive. Had some issues with the fact that they showed up formatted FAT32, but I reformatted as NTFS and it works better wit... | |
| Networked Media Player. I've got a bunch of audiotrons in my house that served me in good stead for background music (mp3s). But, I wanted to trim down my CD collection, and thought the ATs wouldn't work for me because I wanted losslessly encoded audio *and* tagging. Tur... | |
| Canon to RCA adaptors By "canon" do you mean "XLR"? Three pronged jobbies with a shell and a lock? You can get RCA to XLR converter dongles. I'd guess those are a lot cheaper than custom cables--the cables probably won't have much resale value either... | |
| Non inverting polarity? If you are worried about inverting polarity in your system, the easiest place to fix it (if your pre doesn't have an invert polarity feature) is by changing your speaker cables... Wire + to - and - to +. Since each two polarity inversions will res... | |
| Question About Amp Hook Ups There was a long thread on this titled "balanced is inherently flawed"... Here's a link I think will get you there:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1081820984&read&keyw&zzbalanced+single-ended |