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| Best Software mp3 Player MP3, Flac, WAV, Ogg, AAC it's irrelevant. I dont want to harp on this and quite frankly, deep down inside I could care less what application people use. I just want users to understand that when they whole heartedly support or promote one applica... | |
| Best Software mp3 Player iTunes??? Why would you recommend an application that offers no native open codec support such as FLAC. Instead you are shackled to a proprietary codec (with by most admissions has good sound quality but no better than any other we are talking l... | |
| Airport Express connection to Coaxial DAC Contact Scott directly. He can re-wire the the DAC to accept Toslink for $20, Because space is limited on the board you will lose the co-axial. This way the connection is clean and straight forward... consistent with running a non upsampling minim... | |
| DAC for AirportExpress around $1k? A Bel Canto DAC2 can be had for under 1k. I am currently using a Bel Canto 1.1. Both accept RCA and toslink (optical).The Bel Canto is very smooth and transparent to the point of almost vanishing. I was using a Krell component before which althoug... | |
| tukan V's katan I have Katans running aktiv and have never noticed or felt that the treble had rounded off. I found that going from passive to aktiv mellowed them out a bit, less bright, but still very energetic, and less fatigue during long listening periods.Wha... | |
| Isolation feet for monitors The isolation is to stop the speakers and book shelves resonating together - the shelves are very light and thin so i sometimes hear a tze, tze at high volumnes. So perhaps weather stripping between the speakers and granite bases will help to bind... | |
| Large Audio Libraries squeezebox, squeezebox, squeezebox. I have around 8K and its smooth sailing. Handles key word title searches in a few seconds as apposed to minutes. And open source server side software ensures that the OS keep current | |
| Ideal Manufacturers for your local hi-fi shop...? And what is wrong with Linn!!!! Great product, solid reputation, fantastic in both 2 and multi-channel applications, not to mention zones and hard drive servers. I am an architect and have done many homes with high and medium end audio/video syste... | |
| How does a good mp3 sound? Don't give up on digital sound just quite yet. Yes accept that digital sounds different to analog, better worse, like wine its personal.And yes MP3 has about as much depth as a string tied to a tin can, but given that there are now several lossles... | |
| Problem with EAC Like all things electronic the problem seems to have 'magicaly' corrected itself... thanks | |
| Problem with EAC I changed the url to http://www.freedb.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi but i am still getting the same error?Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | |
| Best speakers for Linn Classik ??? I have a slightly different set up now having gone aktiv, but I was initially running Linn Katans from a single Linn LK85 and before that a rotel integrated. I auditioned several monitors including B&W and Dynadudio and to my ear, although lea... | |
| Need help with Copying CDs with my PC I will try to help but it sounds like there are too many unknowns as to what the problem might be. You can try a few of the things listed below which may help to define what the problem is, or at least what direction to look:1. Download and instal... | |
| Need help with Copying CDs with my PC A few questions first:1. What ripping software are you using? If you are not using EAC whay not?2. Are you encoding the files to either lossy or lossless compression? If so what compression format, FLAC, MP3 etc?3. Did you relaod all of the above ... | |
| DAC for Linn Gear Hi Audioengr.The auiotron operates like a laptop except that it allows me to remotley store my music files adn then spool them over ethernet. The AT (audioton) then spits out the audio in either a digital or (very poor analog format), hence the po... |