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| Search for miracle integrated Just utterly surprised no one has yet mentioned the LFD NCSE? It has been properly accolades as one of the purest and most liquid solid state integrated offerings regardless of price (I think it is around $6K now). I have four different reference ... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? I absolutely second Csmgolf's recommendation of Tekton as your primary "Heavy Metal" choice! Possibly the best bang for the buck Uber rock speaker offered in many years. Yet, they can do double duty as a very respectable audiophile speaker as well... | |
| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved But Petty, how does all of your overtly longish posts support or address your actual subject title; "Should the sound quality of computer audio be improved"? Your responses have been completely centered around how you feel computer audio will most... | |
| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved Petty Officer's thread seems to be mostly centered on how he hates computers and their association with audio. Very little discussion addressing the sound quality of computer audio and if the sound should be improved? Hence, it would be more appro... | |
| Best Pc for audio? A group of us (over 20 audiophiles) have found that the Mac Mini sonically prevails above other offerings, PC or MAC. Of course, the sonic differences do vary as compared to different PCs (there are so many variations!) and the Mac's overall sonic... | |
| Cable Elevators killed my bass Based on my own experience with different cable elevators it seems as if some cable designers may have "voiced" their cables for a correct "top to bottom" balance with their cables sitting on the floor. Once the cable is off the floor there typica... | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 Something to consider about actually observing REAL differences when comparing Blu-ray to regular DVDs. On my own personal Sony Wega tube set (which has the best "balck" in the business) there is HUGE depth of field difference between Blu-ray and ... | |
| Can I connect directly to a receiver's DAC ? In answer to your second question; "... how are the DAC's usually, in upscale receivers from Yamaha or Denon compare to stand alone DACs..." - Based on my experience, these internal DACs are only comparable to the sub $400 stand alone DACs, and ev... | |
| Which version of iTunes is best? Short answer: the latest varient!Long answer: In actuality, there have been slight variations in the sound of iTunes. Some of the updates (but not all by any means) actually added a slight improvement in high frequency reproduction and better harm... | |
| Mac Mini vs. another Mac for music server Hey Ckorody, you make some very good points! The sonic differences between the Mac Mini and a Macbook would require the sound system to be of the caliber where imaging differences could be easily identified in the Z axis depth, where of Mini is pe... | |
| Mac Mini vs. another Mac for music server Although I know it is fairly hard to believe for many, I can positively say without question that the Mac Mini will be the better sounding as compared to the Macbook or Macbook Pro laptops. Not only myself, but easily over a dozen other audiophile... | |
| Mac Mini vs. another Mac for music server Per your inquiry, I am using the USB output. With a Mac (or any computer based server) you would want to AVOID SPDIF type of outputs whenever possible! SPDIF (both optical and electrical) are an "ugly tangled mess" of the clock and the digital mus... | |
| Reducing PC Jitter As for your assumption #2 - that there "is more jitter" from the USB connection that is NOT correct. A properly designed USB D/A converter ELIMINATES up to half a dozen jitter sources as compared to any SPDIF connection, optical or electrical. Ama... | |
| Mac Mini vs. another Mac for music server In my own research; comparing the Mac Mini to both my other Macbook and Macbook Pro models, there has been a marked sonic improvement in both spatial and dynamic qualities via the Mac Mini. I speculate that the sonic improvement must be noise and/... | |
| Emerald Physics: Same as the Quads in the fifties? The comparison with the Quads is probably quite a stretch IMHO. Quads were known to do a few things sonically that no speaker at any price or technology could match, period. The Emeralds on the other hand don't have the "no speaker at any price or... |