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| Alternatives to streaming via Apple TV/iTunes arafiq , I also store data in ALAC and use iTunes. From Mac Mini data is transfered over WiFi to AirPort Express, then by Toslink to Benchmark DAC1 and by XLR to power amp. I don’t know how good is the DAC in Parasound P5, but major problem I can ... | |
| Did you ever think digital and analog would exist side by side the way it is now Don't forget 8-track | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Tubegroover, That’s what I heard from the few of them. Nice distortion (crunch) is another reason. It seems logical to me that tech person in the band (often one of musicians) can easily bring amp back to life by simply replacing a tube, but SS am... | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Musicians love tube amps since tubes are easy to replace. Semiconductors failure is harder to diagnose and usually require professional repair. | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Conrad Johnson has three small tubes on the sockets. Replacement is as simple as pulling one and, after replacing damping rings, pushing new one paying attention to orientation. 5 min job. When I was young, we had TV full of small tubes. First... | |
| When is Apple going to have an Iphoto that runs on El Capitan? I also upgraded to El Capitan, but "Photos" was already installed on my computer by Yosemite. Photos has editing tools like Enhance, Rotate, Crop, Filter, Adjust, Retouch, Red-Eye and Extensions. I haven’t used them yet, but I don’t expect anythin... | |
| How Long Has It Been Since You Listened To Live Music? I wonder how people can compare sound of their systems to live shows when sound of life shows is often poor. In many venues it is hard to get good seats because they are very expensive, sold out, or reserved for season tickets. Sound settings f... | |
| Need Inexpensive Digital Cable Cables longer than 1.5m (or shorter than 1 foot) are better. Best would be 1.5-2mDigital cable is system dependent. Cable that works great in one system might sound poor in another. | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping The best for you, IMHO, would be laptop with asynchronous USB D/A converter. Do some research. One inexpensive example might be Oppo HA-2 asynch USB headphone amp with line out, based on ESS Sabre 32-bit (wonderful sound), but you might like som... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping Once you have it in Itunes in one format, like ALAC, you can export album to another format like ACC. It will perform conversion for you. Once you set export format in options it might be even possible to do this by dragging album icon to desired... | |
| AIFF vs Apple Lossless Ripping AAC is compressed like MP3 (but better sound quailty). WAV doesn't have ability to store metadata (track names etc.). AIFF shouldn't have any options, being uncompressed. Your choice is between Apple Lossless (ALAC) and AIFF. ALAC is about 50%... | |
| Looking for a USB Headphone amplifier I bought Oppo HA-2 headphone amp recently and it sounds amazing. It has asynch USB, SPIDIF, DSD an analog in/out. I use USB. Sounds better than my Benchmark DAC1. D/A converter IC is SABRE 32-bit. It has lithium battery and can be used with a p... | |
| Who tried Class D only to return to S/S or Tube tfats, I've never heard Channel Islands but I know they were based on Hypex modules and had great reviews. Bel Canto used Icepower modules (that my are in my Rowland 102 as well). Hypex had dual supply (+/-) but only two output Mosfets switching ... | |
| Who tried Class D only to return to S/S or Tube kuribo, it appears that we need some common language here. Saying "technology is mature" is a polite way of saying "It hit dead end" - therefore don't expect major improvements and place your order today. There are many technologies still improvi... | |
| Who tried Class D only to return to S/S or Tube Ait, I think it is possible to place very large coil in front of capacitors in order to obtain constant charging current in form of sinewave. The problem I can see with this scheme is size of the coil (huge inductance with low resistance) and the... |