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JLTi phono preamp - upgraded power supply?
im curious to know if the SimAudio PSX5.3 could be used in the JLTi.and become an standard something like API 500 series.im also considering purchasing the Sim Audio LP3, and use those Video amplifier psu, that use coaxial F shielded cables. 
Sound Card with Multiple Stereo Outputs
Lynx AES16 best drivers with Aurora16 with Antelope Isochrone ocx + 10Mand the best digital wordclock cables you can buy.or instead of the Aurora16, any other brandlike RME adi-8QS, Mytek 8x192, 8x96, redbox, digi 192hd, apogee, etc...every ADDA s... 
Advice on Setting Up A Laptop-Based Audio System?
$600 total ?get M-Audio/RME/tc electronic and logitech x-540uhmm... for a bit more:most pcs have a feature that allow the soundcard to output s/pdif. from the 1/8" phono jack. not the best way, but works.dont know if macs can do it.if they can...j... 
The best speaker you ever heard?
disagree,the amp & crossover components are far more important.any 1-inch or less light weight diaphragm tweeter, with a lightweight but rigid 6.5 woofer, both with strong magnets, hopefully with lightweight copper windings in the voice coil.b... 
Possible to convert Apple Lossless to WAV.?
Windows .WMA lossless, sounds exactly like .wav but can have Tags and photo of the art included in the same file.better than .flac or .ape or .wv wavpack .mpcin PC, the apple quicktime v7.x, with purchasing the PRO unlock code from apple store, ca... 
DAC or. Lynx 2 sound card with Vista OS
hard question...if you will not record music/sound, go for the DAC.the lynx its an amazing soundcard, best drivers, verry nice AD/DA, nice wordclock, i own the AES16, and RME hdsp too, nice DSP mixer, but the DAC its a DAC.if the DAC usb drivers a... 
Spectrum analyzer?
pc/laptop, nice sound card, like echo layla firewire + any condenser mic arround $100usd.-$200usd.rode, mxl, adk, audio-technica, etc...+ any software, from free Mda vst plugins to generate noise, to izotope ozone RTA to analize noise, to cubase/n... 
Best way to Connect IPOD to Hi-Fi.
most ipods have bad DACs, and bad wordclock,the nano2g rev1, when heats after a few songs, sounds lifeless.http://www.duke.edu/~mgg6/rmaa/IpodNano1G.htmhttp://hifiipod.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/iPod_5G_video.htmhttp://www.daefeatures.co.uk/... 
XLR vs. Phono Cables
depens on the quality of the cables you use.usually XLR should be better,but if the XLR cable has low propagation velocity and high capacitance, or bad shieldingvs. a rca with the opocite, high V.P. and low capacitance ,and copper shieldingthe rca... 
DIY cable elevators
funny! 
Why do digital cables sound different?
EASY....digital cables sound diferent becouse are diferent, diferent materials, diferent quality, diferent lenghs, diferent manufacturing process, etc.. without the technical stuff, i will be looked like a dumb.but thats the real answare, plain an... 
Personal speaker evolution
the best impression and the worst desillution, were the spirit by soundcraft absolute zero. with peavey cs200x the ab-zero when brand new, sounded verry similar to genelec but non metallic, amazing, but when they broke-in 2 days later, were someth... 
Is a DAC for mp3/AAC noticeably beneficial?
yes..... 
Computer output to DAC, which route?
depends on the budget,depends on your ear/brain, if it likes more color sound or grey sound.too many variables.like jitter.wordclock, the op-amps in the DAC., the circuit design in the DAC.wordclock & s/pdif cable velosity propagation, and cap... 
Personal amp evolution
watch out for step backs.