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| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th I've never been that impressed by Nola, but their smaller Micro Grand "Gold" model they showed was the highlight for me. Extremely clear, dynamic, and engaging...and driven by a nice VAC 160i integrated. It stood apart,sounded real, but at $33,000... | |
| Any tricks to firing up a pair of Maggie IIa's? I had a pair. It was a love/hate relationship. Vocals and acoustic stuff was good, but they remained docile when something really needed more dynamics. At the time, they seemed to mate best with a behemoth like a Levinson 23. Magnepan came to fame... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Agear, I'm using the Wireworld Starlight 7. Nothing exotic. It had good street buzz, and I was pleased with the results. It's connecting an HP laptop to a Benchmark.To digress, I configured JRiver to cache the entire file into memory, up to a giga... | |
| Kef 104.2 Speakers. Suggestions Discussion Forum Captain, was there a model number for your JBL's? | |
| Is computer audio a bust? I bemoan the unintended consequences of digital technology--from the idling of workers, to looking at a screen instead of being in the physical world. There is also something elegant and beautiful about analog solutions, be they fascinating tonear... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Mapman,I haven't tried anything but JRiver, but I did a lot of research before choosing it. The $49 price is a pittance, but it funds a lot of good development and support, and, as a software person, I am impressed by the JRiver product.I had a fe... | |
| Class D Ncore Atsah in the house It is an odd phenomena that anything viewed as digital is considered obsolescent once a new version is announced. We're probably wired that way from watching digital computers evolve. But it creates a real financial and long-term satisfaction risk... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? A clean Windows system running only jRiver is not very complex. Add virus protection and you're set. I'd recommend an i5 chip for overkill, enough memory to stage media there, and a $60 USB backup disk. Phenomenal laptops are far less than $1000, ... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Computer audio is the best architecture, allowing the greatest control, media options, innovation, and integration--especially feeding USB DAC's. It's the future, here now, IMO. | |
| cd/dvd repair ot trash Don't repair it. Laptop->DAC is where to be, and where the innovation is occurring. Version 19 of jRiver can decode bit-perfect rips into memory and provide an excellent source stream into a DAC. Then you just choose the DAC you love, and swap ... | |
| Lossless Files Vs CD's The analogy of ripping to a Xerox copy is flawed. There is loss in copying a non-digital source, but there can be exact copying of a digital source.If the digital computer file->DAC had been invented first, and then someone designed a way to co... | |
| What is the best transport? The biggest, most pleasurable improvement in my system over the past decade was to replace the Wadia->Benchmark link with Windows 7->USB->Benchmark using flac and JRiver. I play the tracks from memory and bypass the Windows mixer/media pl... | |
| Music server for a newbie I bought a good used PC laptop for $300, stripped it down to just Windows 7 and Chrome, bought jRiver for $50, ripped to flac, set it to play from memory and feed a Wireworld USB cable without using Windows Media Player or Mixer, and go into a Ben... | |
| Audio Research pre-amps? I always felt the LS-3 was a great AR preamp, specifically for it's neutrality and open sound. I'd suspect the speakers. | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Schubert, that's true, but as in other areas of life where budgeted money is involved, the informed person who alerts us to charlatans and deceivers provide a valuable service, but are often harassed for their efforts. It's nice to be romantic, bu... |