herman
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| Itunes ? 'to get it all on the external drive first go to advanced preferences and make the external drive your iTunes media folder, if you click change you can browse to it.then go to File - library - organize library and then choose consolidate. It will ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .No problem Ralph. I think it is a disservice to those who are trying to learn something here but If you are comfortable muddying the water with incorrect information then that is your choice. As one of the senior "experts" around here who comes f... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .actually, a phono stage could use RCAs as balanced inputs if they float the ground. That assumes that it's not grounded at the turntable but I think that would be unusual.. | |
| Itunes ? .Get Super Duper for backupshttp://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.htmlI have an idea, I'll email you.. | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .The highly respected Aetshetix IO converts balanced to single ended at the input and then back to balanced after the equalization. I don't recall if it just grounds one leg or does some other conversion like a diff amp to SE but it is not balance... | |
| Itunes ? .Ouch, I think you may have a problem. If you dragged and dropped I'm pretty sure you just created an alias, what is called a shortcut in the world of Windows. It didn't actually copy the files, it just created a pointer that says where the origin... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Minor, sounds like you are a very thorough tech.Question: you say you check the caps for leakage and replace only as needed. What about a loss of capacitance and/or increased ESR? The amp may function with these problems but well below it's poten... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .In the link you provided in the original post you listPolk Monitor Jr 5B&W DM 605 s2Sony cd playerPC sound cardwhich is what I based my comment onIn any case, if it were me I would try some adapters you can get from a music store for around $... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Ralph,Again, I'm dumbfounded you continue to defend what is clearly wrong.I've been dealing with electronics for over 30 years, taught it for 10, and have looked at this topic quite a bit since it often comes up on this and other forums. I've nev... | |
| 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 ... |