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| Technics SL1200 Cardas REWIRE Shielding Yeah. The metal arm tube is your shield. If I were rewiring a Technics arm and wanted to thread something through the wand with it, it would be vibration damping. Lacking that, I wrapped teflon plumber's tape around the outside of the armtube. | |
| Nuforce Icon Mobile Sugith, have you tried it both as a headphone amp and as a USB DAC?Nuforce-Icon mentions an upcoming dock-to-mini adapter cable, but doesn't appear to be available yet. The 6 Moons review connected the ipod to the Icon Mobile with a Qables Gold do... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB 07-24-09: RestockThere is something to be said for Firewire too - the best computer DAC implementation I heard to date uses Firewire (the Weiss DAC2/Minerva). But that requires extra drivers as well for 24/192 operation.That Focusrite Saffire, in ... | |
| Anyone tried BlockBuster on-demand movie service?? Apple provides downloadable movies in 720p. | |
| Anyone tried BlockBuster on-demand movie service?? Seems pointless to me to let yourself in for Blockbuster's shenanigans when movies on-demand comes free with a Netflix membership. Once the home video medium transitioned from VHS, I haven't liked Blockbuster. After DVD came in, they insisted on s... | |
| Question about iPod Classic 07-23-09: EjlifI agree that the ipod sounds better than a CD transport when docked to the Wadia and feeding a digital signal to a DAC. However it does not sound even close to as good as almost any CD player when plugged straight into a system via ... | |
| Mirage Omni 350 omnipolar 07-22-09: KkmMaybe these will improve with more break in? Also any simple tweaks that might help? ... I'm sure they need more break-in. They need 50-100 just to get some idea of what they do, and mine continued to reveal higher and higher levels o... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB Can you use FireWire instead of USB? The Focusrite Saffire has AD/DA, mixing, and a lot of different format conversions (e.g., SP/DIF I/O) for a street price of $349. As for audiophile quality, Alan Taffel, who did the series on USB digital audio ... | |
| Impossible? Small towers, efficient, musical, loud The Mirage OM3-FS is 93 dB efficient in-room, in a 42" tower with a 5-1/2 x 6-1/8" profile. They're practically invisible, yet can fill a large living space with sound. They are very dynamic, yet excellent with inner detail and clarity. Best of al... | |
| Projector At about $1200, currently that InFocus X10 is about half the price of the next 16:9 1080p HDMI-connectable projector. | |
| Projector InFocus offers a 1080p projector, the X10, which is the current price leader in 1080p projectors. Reviews generally say that although its black levels aren't as good as the more expensive ones, it's nevertheless an excellent projector for the mone... | |
| Projector 07-19-09: MantaraydesignHow about saving some money on the screen by using a white bed sheet and glue the sheet to the wall. Next, go to home depot and buy some cheap wood to make the frame around the white sheet. Last, paint the wood frame to bla... | |
| Projector 07-19-09: Ericjcabrerai am currently using a panasonic pt-ax200u with 92 inch panoview grew wolf ...i don't have any 1080p sources, but even at 1080i from my dvd, it is very impressive with very good daytime output. Although your projector accepts... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB I posit that the 24 bits vs. anything less is far more important to sound quality than 192 Khz vs. 96. I'll take 24/48 over 20/192 any day. 24-bit has 16 times the amplitude resolution as 20-bit. 96Khz is plenty high enough to maintain phase relat... | |
| How to Increase Turntable Height on High WAF Rack I knew from the open house that the std. arm on the Ayre/DPS is a modified RB250. I was mightily impressed. At the previous year's open house I had heard a SME 30 with Series V tonearm, and it was remarkable how much the Ayre/DPS had that same sur... |