herman
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| Airport Extreme to DAC .I glanced at the article and it incorrectly says Macs can natively support up to 24/96, played through iTunes or other software. However, without a couple settings tweaks, audio files with resolution higher than 16-bit/44.1kHz will automatically ... | |
| Airport Extreme to DAC .you sure about that iMatch lossless thing?I think it converts everything to 256K AAC compressed format.. | |
| Best SACD Player Help Needed .go poke around over here. Pretty active forumhttp://www.sa-cd.net/. | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .Come on Doug, you have more invested in a single cable than he has in his entire system. There is no way he can hear a change with an inch or so of metal between the end of a cable and the input to his old NAD integrated.Not knocking his system, ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Here is another concern. My company has been dealing with this for several years now. The caps in the computers that run our equipment are failing at a very high rate.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plagueI agree that MTBF is not applicabl... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .If you feel the table is a good deal go for it and get the adapters.The seller is correct, any tonearm cable can be terminated either way but cheaper and easier to get the adapter unless you can do it yourself. I bet you any amount you want that ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .I'm dumbfounded you would continue to defend what is clearly just plain wrong. You are evidently just making stuff up as you go along this time.That is absolutely not the correct use of the term. It means something has half it's life left, not th... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Marakanetz. capacitance could be OK but ESR and/or leakage too high. It is doubtful a 50 year old electrolytic is still in spec.Rrog, half life is the time it takes for something to decay or decline by 50%, it is not the time it takes for 50% of ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Ralph, can you back that up with some references?Curious where you got 1/2 fail in 20 years. Even if true, given that the lifetime of a particular cap is inversely proportional to operating voltage and temperature I fail to see how this is useful... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters .I agree you have more power and gain than you need but that is not causing your problem. In any case I think everyone is over thinking this. Now that we know you did not have an issue with your previous preamp isn't the problem obvious?......Befo... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .You will get opinions from electrolytics last forever to they need to be replaced every 10 years. The truth is they do wear out but the the variables are too great to make an accurate prediction of when. The 10 year people may be overly cautious,... | |
| Itunes ? .That might work but iTunes finds files by storing the path to it in the library. The backup would have to be an exact duplicate having the same name and same file structure as the original which is doubtful. If you renamed it to match the old one... | |
| Active crossovers .I am triamping and Pure Music has a built in crossover that works seamlessly with the RME. Crossover points and slopes are adjustable along with polarity and gain. Very flexible. You can add whatever plugins you want if you want EQ or whatever. I... | |
| Airport Extreme to DAC .Most people advocate an SSD drive and maximum memory of the newest versions. Older Minis were limited to I think 3 GB but newer ones go to 8. You can order it that way from Apple but it is cheaper to get the extra stuff elsewhere and install it y... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters ,Since you asked......An SET amp is in my opinion the only amp to pair with them. Bottlehead is a great value if you can solder and follow directions, and you can easily learn to solder. There is a used pair of monoblocks for sale here now (no aff... |