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| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player Mapman - I could be wrong about reason (production yield) - look here: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1186749514 The main problem with DACs is how to get better than 16 bit linearity. Most you can get in traditional architecture... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player Arcam FMJ-CD23 was great because of use of DCS licensed RING-DACS (rotating its divider components to get accurate average value). They had problems with production yield of DAC chips and stopped using them. Next model had regular DACs. I've never... | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? Hellofidelity - it does it very well indeed. 16/44 limitation doesn't bother me since all my music is 16/44. The only problem I know of is that it drops clock during gaps and some DACs are late to sync and mute beginning of the song (Benchmark doe... | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? Darkj - Airport Express uses native ALAC so it is better to store in ALAC to avoid additional conversion. Stereophile tested Airport Express for bit transparency and it recovers exactly uncompressed data bit-for bit true. They concluded that Airpo... | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? "The piano finish can show fingerprints"Pledge makes it easy to clean. Advantage of piano finish is that any piano restoring place can fix scratches while it is almost impossible on wood veneer. | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? ALAC ripped by programs like MAX or EAC should sound better than CDP since program reads CD as data multiple times until it gets correct checksum. CDP cannot do that, working in real time, and skips over wrong data. It get worse with older (scratc... | |
| 2k$ speakers that meet my criteria? Read reviews of Hyperion HPS-938. Used one runs about $2k. Be sure it was build later than 2004 since they improved bracing. Their website: www.hyperionsound.com Somebody is currently selling on Audiogon for $1900 but you need to ask year. Not too... | |
| any audiophile guitarists out there? Atmasphere - Image cannot be viewed without login. Do you play-out or just at home for fun? | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player "or will I get the realism that I get from vinyl."It is very difficult to get all the clicks, pops and noise from CD to accurately mimic vinyl but it can be done. | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. I remember Ridge Street Audio Sasons - company is located in Indiana, if remember correctly, and they sell direct. At the time I looked it was too big of a "jump" for me but I keep my eyes open. I think I read "Positive Feedback" review. The way t... | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. It is GF1000T. It is triple interface but only Firewire 400 (is your MAC-Mini 800?). Warranty is only 1 year but I assume that warranty doesn't make item better (Hyundai has better warranty than Toyota) and I keep 3 copies. 1TB external drives are... | |
| The Sound or Music Yeah, It was so nice that I cannot stop doing it. | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. Dracule1 - do you know we have same speakers (HPS-938)?I bought initially Fantom for my work (backup) because of good reviews and three more for myself later - no problems so far. I bought previously external drive for my nephew from Other World C... | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. Dracule1 - Sorry for posting twice. I think I'm doing exactly what you asked - recommending very quiet, cool and reliable external disk for Mac-Mini. Choice of interface is also important while backup/mirroring goes into reliability that you asked... | |
| External firewire hard drive to go with Mac Mini. Magfan - I found out that Fantom uses Micronet drives 7k rpm. Firewire is only 400 (same on my Mac Mini). Firewire 800 might have some use for file transfer but not for the music server since Firewire 400 is already about 300 times faster that CD ... |