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What about a product can irritate you?
Other Thiel owners have no doubt struggled with this one: Binding posts under the speaker. What were they thinking?! If you want to swap cables you're basically stuck with repositioning your speakers. If you have them spiked through carpet it's an... 
Besides the soundcard.... does the computer itself
the celeron and p4 should make everything worse. go with a 64 bit AMD processor which is more advanced :)seriously, none of the listed components should make any difference in sound quality. 
Playing old reel to reel...help
Keis, I'm just curious, who have you recorded? 
Anyone heard the Onkyo sp 1000 yet?
Redbook is regular cd (16bit/44.1khz), not sacd, dvd-a, etc. 
Why I Like Thiel
They are great. I sent a product back to them that was out of warranty and, like you, I wasn't the original owner. Jim Thiel himself fixed it and sent it back at no charge. There are many good stories like this about Thiel here and on AA and never... 
Best Live Phish CDs
getting many different sources is definitely the way to go. its bittersweet, though. after the hiatus i was dedicated to getting damn near every source of every show that was available. i was hooking up to the torrents, setting up snail mail trade... 
Best Live Phish CDs
dewinkle,for simple, quick, and mindless acquisition of lossless good music, the only place you need to visit is http://bt.etree.org/All you need is a high speed internet conection.slipknot, i agree totally about the schoeps recordings. why is tha... 
Best Live Phish CDs
slipknot, was there a particular source for oswego that you had in mind? i have the FOB schoeps that's going around and its not great. i now see that there's a U89i for the 18th which probably deserves a listen.Dewinkle, i shy away from the offici... 
help converting EAC files to FLAC
All you ned to do is get the flac plugin for winamp and you sjould be good to go. a google search should reveal it. you can also try foobar, which is what i've playing with lately. you can get it from:http://www.foobar2000.org/download the "specia... 
help converting EAC files to FLAC
are you dragging wav files into the flac window? what options do you have selected in both eac and flac? 
Fluctuating volume in one channel: Part II
gnobber, that's great! i hope it wasn't too painful being without your amps for tha time. it sounds like the switched the same things in our amps for the same reasons... they must be very similar inside.i'm glad they're working well again. enjoy s... 
iPOD How many cds does it really Hold ?any Tips??
WAV files are useless and do not have a place in this application. there is no advantage, sound quality wise, of wavs over losslessly compressed files. if you decide that you want no loss in quality, just use lossless compression to save some spac... 
Has someone imposed a speed limit on jazz?
Ejlif,Do you know if Claudia Quintet is taper friendly? 
The New GMA Callisto is one good looking speaker..
Is there any way you can post the pics for us? I did find these pics... don't know if they're the same as what you have or not.http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=13038&highlight= 
iPod help needed...
The 70,000 songs that they advertise are definitely not losslessly compressed songs. They came up with that number considering the file size of a typical song using lossy compression.As for the quality of the Apple lossless compression scheme... i...