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| Tweaks On a more productive note to the OP's query. I recently did a test of isolation products a few months back. I can't recall the name of the product I was trying as it was supplied by a friend, but it was a rubber-based isolation product. I compared... | |
| Tweaks Ozzy - please accept my apology...I really meant no offense to you. Most folks who know me around here know I have a rather acerbic sense of humor and like to poke fun...even at myself. I do know that I sometimes go too far, and if you actually to... | |
| Tweaks Jax2, You need help. Somebody, help me please! Perhaps thats why you dont post your system.Is it Bose?Good guess, but everyone knows that I'm a Close'N'Play kind of guy! Blows Bose garbage right to the back of the trailer park! | |
| Tweaks Now the Magic Clocks, brilliant pebbles, I have them all and they do improve the soundstage. Geoffkaitis really on to something there. Not sure why , but they do .Many people have bought them but are afraid to post because of all the crap you can ... | |
| Tweaks Furthermore, could 1000 audiogon customers be wrong? You're kidding, right?! Yes, most certainly 1000 Audiogon customers could indeed be wrong, Geoff. History has proved over and over that not only thousands, but millions, tens of millions, entire... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping One reason you may not hear a difference is that the Mac sends everything to the Airport as Apple Lossless. It converts the AIFF file to lossless and then the AE converts it back to SPDIF for your Dac. Thanks for that - I did not know this. I don'... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping The advantage of AIFF over WAV on a mac is that it keeps the meta data safe. Otherwise they both sound the same as long as the sample rate is correct.This is a good point and cannot be stressed enough. I would strongly encourage choosing AIFF over... | |
| Tweaks I can only give you feedback on one of the three things you asked about - anti-vibration devices certainly can make a difference in my experience. I would qualify that, and further comment on any of the input you get here by saying this:The differ... | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos If you want a truly amazing percussion performance, seek out the Iranian father/son trio's album:Qalam Kar, by Trio ChemiraniIt has all the qualities you are looking for and soundstaging in spades. | |
| US vs Japanese Beatles remasters The US version of the Monos, at least the first edition, are pressed in Japan. My entire mono box set was made in Japan. It was from the first 10K edition. I don't know whether that will be the case for the balance of whatever they produce. I also... | |
| Mac Mini USB output sounds "garbled" Why would AIFF be better than wav in this context?AIFF is an uncompressed format native to Mac, whereas WAV is also uncompressed, but native to PC. If you rip to WAV on a MAC it may be more problematic managing metadata like the album artwork or f... | |
| addition of 2nd pair of speakers The Bryston selector did not degrade my sound at all. Completely agree about the speaker terminal observation above. Use bananas if possible. | |
| Budget amp recommendation needed 78 dB has to be wrong. Also, are you talking about a power amp, which has been suggested above, or an integrated amp? If the latter, two come to mind, Rega Mira 3, and Portal Panache (if you don't mind the lack of a remote). | |
| squeezebox duet I2s mods? You could run the Duet into an Empirical Audio Pacecar via S/PDIF and get I2S output from the Pacecar. | |
| Beatles Remasters: Mono vs. Stereo Debate Thread Here's one review with some interesting input recently online. |