hbarrel
Responses from hbarrel
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear “Closer to it” Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express Showing my age with this one. | |
| DAC upgrade? Now I am going to have to investigate... never heard of extreme.Oh yea I use the optical interface between my mini and the dac. | |
| DAC upgrade? Have you tried the system optimizer within Audirvana?For sure wakes up my Cary Xciter DAC.Got nothing to lose by flipping a switch. | |
| Setting up a Mac mini as a music server, and other digital music questions I did upgrade the mini to a SSD hard drive. Took like ten minutes. | |
| Setting up a Mac mini as a music server, and other digital music questions I have used a Mac-mini for a long time as my music server. And is old enough (HighSierra) it will not support the newer IOS. I run the music through a toslink connection to a Cary Xciter DAC.Audirvana software to my ears is the bomb.I see no reaso... | |
| Help: ISO Beginner full setup for excellent sound on $2000 max budget I will second soix system. You’d be happy with the simplicity and sound. Easily last more than a couple years.If a Blue Circle NSCS or FiTh ever comes up at the proper price point... grab it. | |
| What other Hobbies or Interests Do You Have? This will probably be unique... I competitively shoot Rimfire benchrest. Had to give up golf and needed a competitive outlet. Pretty much a discipline populated by the retired baby boomers. | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" and there will be an open bar. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Some Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Rare Earth. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? 11 years. Haven’t changed a thing. | |
| FLAC On A Mac HD Tracks specifically addresses the FLAC to MAC issue...http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/How-Convert-HDtracks-FLAC-High-Resolution-Downloads-and-Add-iTunes-Video-Commentary | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... Just goes to show how one person's great is another person's that's terrible. I thought Jeff Blakes self titled album is one of the worst recording I've ever heard. Made a coaster out of it. | |
| "The Heat Pipes are coming"... The Heat Pipes are Google: "heat pipe"As person who has used a "form" of heat pipes to transfer heat within the confines of a plastic injection mold... they are one way to transfer heat from area to another and are very specific in nature and not a cure-all.Tread ca... | |
| Will a quality USB cable make a difference.... To my ears a usb cable is a usb cable. 1's and zero's. | |
| Dedicated Line ....... my system SUCKS One thing to look at is the actual line voltage into the house.You might only have 208v service. It is unusual to see such voltage but it is out there.15amp service at 120v is capable of handling a 960 watt device. At 104v the 960 watts drops to 7... |