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| which dvd for under 1k You may want to check into the pending release of Oppo's BD93. | |
| Upgrading iTunes Artwork You should be able to click and drag into the window on the lower left when an album is chosen. The only exception is with WAV files, which, last time I checked, did not support the drag-and-drop method. There is a separate folder in your itunes f... | |
| High Current Monoblocks Since there's a bit of interest here on this thread, there is yet another great review on Audiocircle just posted praising the synergy between the Modwright and Lou's speakers. See the recent post to the thread by VinylLady. Grant - I wondered the... | |
| American made USB DAC's I'd heartily agree with Ejlif's nod to MHDT as a great bargain and excellent products. The Havana is their current top of the line, while the new Paradisea is now called the Paradisea 3 (being in its 3rd version). I recently had the opportunity to... | |
| American made USB DAC's Has anyone done a/b comparison of Wavelength/Apogee mini/Benchmark/Nixon dacs? Hey Spencer - I did a head-to-head comparing the older versions of both the Benchmark and the Wavelength Brick. I don't know as it would apply though because both have ... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Hey Spencer - thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm sure there must be scientific reasons for what I'm hearing and likely they're buried in the ripping software. My friend, whose system I've enjoyed over many years now, and where I've done lots o... | |
| High Current Monoblocks I kind of get it. Someone correct me where I'm off in my metaphor. The single most difficult task in the system is the transfer of electrical energy into mechanical energy at the speaker. The amp/speaker interface is critical as a poor match can a... | |
| Nick Drake and others like him I just get a little turned off by guys in the past 10yrs or so who play somber, navel gazing music and think they're like nick drake. I truly doubt they'll be getting played 40 yrs from now. As to my crack :) about the thread, there are many from ... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Hi Robert - I think there are some FLAC conversion software options (MacFlac), but I'm not really familiar with them, nor their effectiveness. If they work like the EAC conversion my friend did, I'd be pretty happy and willing to try them. With th... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Hey Robert - I've done similar comparisons, but with WAV files comparing to ALAC. I've had really mixed results there. Sometimes there's been a clear difference with WAV sounding consistently better, and others (on other rips of different CD's) I ... | |
| Where to start in building a beginner's system? Well, if you really want to get better sound I would start by getting a digital output from your iPod to a decent DAC with good de-jitter capabilities or interface. The Wadia iTransport dock allows you get a digital line output from your iPod. Jus... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Shadorne - Here's a further, long thread on Head-Fi that supports your contention that the software may be responsible. I have not read the whole thread, but suspected as much myself given the difference in the qualities of the two files I have (E... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus It very well could be, Shadorne. I don't know...I can only tell you what I hear.I seem recall reading something recently about the newest version of iTunes making some difference in the sound of ripped files of the same types. | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus You can believe that you can tell the difference 10/10 times. Fundamentals of mathematics and computer science prove unequivocally that you cannot in reality do soI believe that in reality I can do so. Mathematics or computer science may have noth... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Let me ask you a question, since you're convinced that they can sound different.Take a folder full of Word documents. ZIP it. Heck, re-ZIP it several times. Extract all the files. Do your Word documents look different? Did the formatting change? W... |