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| Bananas Vs Spades??? If you want the convenience of banana plugs, go with a quality brand of Z-style plugs. You'll get more surface area contact then with a spade or bare wire and a snug fit, though not as tight as can be achieved with the other two approaches. Don't ... | |
| What do I need to use my PC as a music server Yes, that's correct, Bodine, a separate hard drive for backup. To be super safe, you could keep the backup offsite somewhere when you aren't actually performing backup operations. I don't do that, but...can't argue with the concept. You can perfor... | |
| Room Treatments: Paneling and Varnish By the way, the labeling on wood finish products is horribly non-standard, so it can be tough to tell what kind of finish you are looking at in a store. Generally, a surface-type finish, like varnish, is applied like paint. Good brush technique ma... | |
| Room Treatments: Paneling and Varnish You may be thinking more about the difference between a surface finish like polyurethane or oil varnish versus a penetrating oil finish, rather than synthetic vs. natural. Varnish is a lot like paint (but clear, of course) in that it forms a prote... | |
| My North Star DAC -not picking up Toslink from STB Just don't unplug it! I had a similar, strange experience when hooking up my Behringer DEQ2496 equalizer. When I plugged in my Airport Express, bad sound came out; later, nothing came out. When I plugged the AX into my DAC (Northstar!) instead, it... | |
| What do I need to use my PC as a music server Bodine, It should be easy to purchase a hard drive that will work with PCs and Macs. Macs can read the MS-DOS (Windows) File System, or FAT32. However, if you were to eventually move to a strictly Mac platform, if I were you I'd reformat the drive... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 - worth using in hi-end system? I am only using the digital functions of the DEQ, so I don't know how its DAC performs. I also don't know how the DAC in your Exemplar performs. However, a lot of what you paid for the Exemplar went into providing a nice, tube analog output sectio... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 - worth using in hi-end system? Street, Yes you can put it there, but you would be taking your CDP's DACs out of a meaningful role, because the DEQ2496 is a digital equalizer, not an analog equalizer. The DEQ would convert the analog signal from your CDP to a digital signal, per... | |
| Internet Radio Renewing this question to see if anyone has any more favorites to suggest? | |
| Musical? "Musical" means "Hey, I like this one so much, I can't be bothered with trying to explain why." It's a pretty recent descriptor of choice, along the lines of "sounds more like music, less like hifi." Whatever. By itself, it doesn't convey any more... | |
| Sonos turns your house into an ipod seems like Apple should get moving with a multi-remote-speaker version of iTunes. Well, speaking of the devil, it seems this improvement has come about with the Airport Express firmware update released earlier this month (and at least v6.0.2 of iT... | |
| DAC with AirTunes? Asahitoro, I can't comment much further, because I haven't used the equipment you're talking about. Personally, I'd much rather use iTunes on a laptop on my couch than navigate with the Squeezebox display, but if you are thinking of a Squeezebox a... | |
| DAC with AirTunes? Asahitoro, there is lots of info on these topics in past threads. I'm not familiar with AVR300 (or any other HT processor), but if you buy an external DAC that is significantly better than the AVR300's DAC, sure, you definitely can improve your wi... | |
| Sonos turns your house into an ipod I enjoyed Robm's "Now it's Cnet" comment--funny, but I agree with Hamburg. No reason these types of systems shouldn't be part of audiophile discussion. However, it'd be helpful if there a little more audiophile content to the posts about Sonos. Th... | |
| Behringer DEQ2496 - worth using in hi-end system? I figured a digital gain control was in there somewhere, but I could not find the little devil. Thanks for pointing out where to look, Racarlson. Still have not heard any digital clipping nasties. You're probably right about a built-in safety marg... |