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| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Part of my problem is I fairly recently switch to my Mac from PCs and am still not quite up to speed on it.Consider yourself lucky you didn't go the opposite way...then you'd really have a steep learning curve! What I can't quite figure out is how... | |
| Modwright KWA 150 I came to the Modwright from being a tube guy, so can't add much to what I've already said regarding your last question here. The only direct comparison I've done to another SS amp was to an Ayre V5XE, which is another SS amp that I really liked, ... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Tobias - thanks for the clarification on USB. So the Squeezebox Touch must be using those drivers because it allegedly can do 24/96 via USB 2.0? I have not tried it though - I've tried both wireless and via SPDIF. Good tip too to run with 5mhz wir... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Joekapahulu - You can continue to use iTunes and use Squeezeserver to access and catalogue your iTunes library, as well as one additional folder that contains music files. I don't know about other SW - perhaps someone else can comment. | |
| What speaker for being close to rear wall? Obviously, Klipschorns. You'd have to make fake corners though to really optimize them. I think AudioKinesis has a model that does well close to walls. Duke makes some great stuff. I have not heard his new speakers, but they got some great buzz at... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes I would avoid WAV too. The metatagging issue is a royal PITA and will come up to bite you if you ever need to move files around outside of iTunes, or need to restore your library. I also have found no difference between WAV and FLAC that I can hea... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes One further detail that I think I need clarification on myself is the limitations of bandwidth / sampling rates on the USB interface. I know the older 1.0 interface was pretty limited and cannot stream high-rez. 1.1 improved a bit (high-rez capabl... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Sorry for the confusion (my own) on the iTunes interface. It was auto-switching of the sample rate that it does not support. As has been pointed out you need to go into the Audio Midi setup and switch the sampling rate manually, which personally I... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes I'll throw another wrench into the works: Using iTunes as your software to deliver the music is going to limit the sampling rate to the conventional 16/44 no matter which hardware you deliver it with. Also, if you output via any USB 1.0 / 1.1 devi... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? My own experience is that it's very difficult to integrate a single subwoofer well. Multiple subs are a bit easier to get to integrate, far more effective and potentially less detrimental to imaging - again, this assumes good subs well-integrated.... | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space As an addendum to my post above, probably one of the best imaging systems I've ever heard contradicts pretty much everything I said there, so go figure. I'd still stand by those observations. The best I've heard was an all MBL system set up in a v... | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space I don't think it's JUST speakers that determine this. It is the interface between all of the components that will ultimately determine how well the system images. IOW changes in the front end could potentially have an effect. The interface between... | |
| Modwright KWA 150 You'd probably benefit from XLR's if used throughout every connection in your system. If just from pre to amp I'd question the benefits based on my experience. I did try it once in my rig and could not perceive a significant difference in JUST run... | |
| Modwright KWA 150 thanks for the kudos! fwiw, I'll be heading to Dan's in a two weeks to upgrade his crossovers in the Ulysses. JAX, you'll have to come listen, I believe you'll find the speakers 'adding' less and being much more 'magical', there really is a huge d... | |
| Modwright KWA 150 I'd concur - both Lou and Dan are great folks and are willing to reach out to help if they are able. Both use each others product so are mutually fans of the pairing. It works, big time. BTW, nice system Dodgealum! Dan's overseas right now, but ch... |