kijanki
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| New tv? I have 55" Samsung LED with edge lighting. It is just excellent. Black levels are as good as the best Plasmas while sharpness is stunning. Brightness and contrast stay during day in bright room (adjusts itself). The only problem is that Samsung co... | |
| do i still need a pre-amp The signal being output by the TV will be Dolby Digital stereo or surround depending on the broadcastIt depends on TV. Panasonics output Dolby with digital and PCM with NTSC automatically. Since NTSC is gone you would be stuck with Dolby. There is... | |
| Classical, Spanish & South American Guitar Jewels Ptss, you mentioned Laurindo Almeida. If you also like Sammy Davis Jr. I recommend this wonderful recordhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkCw5Fl49I | |
| Classical, Spanish & South American Guitar Jewels Sharon Isbin - Latin Romances for Guitar, Dreams of the World David Russell - Aire Latino (wonderful South American music), Reflections of SpainTry very high quality recording: David Russell - Art of The Guitar.Sharon Isbin is simply amazing while... | |
| Reading Spec Sheets Bombaywalla, You mentioned important point - quality of power supply. Design seems straightforward with just transformer rectifier and capacitors but in reality it is pretty complex. Linear supply is unregulated and because of that requires a lot ... | |
| Reading Spec Sheets Bombaywalla, Rowland 625 is class A/B amp with switching power supply. It is light amplifier (light power supply) in very heavy case. | |
| Reading Spec Sheets Judging by power doubling, new Jeff Rowland Model 625 that outputs 300W@8ohms and 550W@4ohms is weak amplifier and that would be a mistake. Judging by weight, as Jmcgrogan2 suggested, is perhaps better, but there are exceptions. Amplifiers that ha... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? I would guess that it doesn't make much difference. Resistance of binding post is most like in order of milliohms* while speaker is in ohms. For the Damping Factor, speaker impedance is mostly resistive and in addition there are inductors in serie... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Al, absolutely right, it takes too long. On the other hand, why to even make on line backup when it is already done in NSA. Just ask them for the copy. | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Doggiehowser, Right now about 650GB in ALAC. I stated time I spend connecting, checking disk, starting program and disconnecting. I don't count time when computer is doing backup (few hours) while I'm watching TV. Sometimes I start backup when I g... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Timrhu, After backup is done program performs automatic verification. I also check before next backup. At each time I have main HD and two unpowered backups in storage. Whole operation is about 15 min of my time every 6 months.Server based playbac... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Jult52, For me net result is flawless system, 15 min work every 6 months (or less often if I ripped <20 CDs) and no loss of quality over time. It didn't cost me time to rip CDs since I mostly ripped what I listened to (listening and ripping at ... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Jult52, Not big problem if it is done right. Raid is not the best way of doing it because in case of controller failure all files can be toast. I keep one backup at home and one at work. It isn't constant backing up as you suggested, because there... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence I use MacMini with external 1TB Firewire drive transmitting music over Wi-Fi across the room. Music is stored in ALAC and played by Itunes. Computer noise, computer speed, amount of memory, playback program etc don't make any difference in this se... | |
| Best Airplay Device Define "better". If you're talking about jitter than your DAC has asynchronous sample rate converter meaning suppresses jitter. If it is still not enough (jitter shows as a noise - lack of clarity) than perhaps additional reclocker would be better... |