kijanki
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| Are you ever satisfied? Douglas - You are absolutely right. I tried to tweak my speakers by putting much better tweeter and expensive xover components. I could not properly integrate it (not easy) and gave up. I ended up buying better speakers and realized that tweeter w... | |
| Are you ever satisfied? Some call it hobby, I call it "Gardener's Syndrome" (gardener always has to find something to trim or re-pot).Jax2 - I'm with you. Now, I have decent system (I think) and only something really great would make me spend money. I'm afraid to go to a... | |
| DAC that re-clocks for under $1000? Realremo - Airport Express has only optical out but it doesn't matter if DAC has very strong jitter rejection. My Benchmark has jitter bandwidth of few Hz and at frequencies of interest (kHz) has over 100dB rejection (of a jitter that was -60dB or... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes Sufentanil - I'm not sure why you need RAID. Single disk is fine and Firewire 400 works great. You need to keep backup disk outside of your residence in case of burglary, fire etc - I keep it at work. | |
| need DAC and Transport or good CD player Get Benchmark DAC1 ($995)and cheap DVD player or connect it to server (computer). I have both plus HDTV (it has three digital inputs). Benchmark has free 30 day evaluation program (at least had). I would avoid used ones unless you know revision. E... | |
| New DAC recommendation $1K, hopefully tube. Mimberman - Airport Express has rather poor sounding analog outs but digital output is pretty good. In test performed by Stereophile http://www.stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple/# it produced 258ps of jitter and that is pretty respectable... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? LPs tend to have better mixing/mastering (or are selected from good recordings to start with). Poorly recorded very low quality LPs won't sell since currently it is only audiophile market while CD will sell no matter how bad as long as music is po... | |
| Help me solve static electricity problem Vhiner - when you touch metal (case) in your system static creates huge current that is "looking" for very fast (nanoseconds)return to earth ground. It always finds many returns and current divides in order of paths' impedance. In your system case... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes There is a Mac's FREE application called MAX: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19873 that does what EAC is doing (only better). It can create exact copy (CDparanoia algorithm with "no skip" option) but also converts any format to any format an... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Tbg - Yes I've noticed it. I was nicely surprised with Snow Leopard. Only $29 and easy flawless installation. | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Jax2 - I don't really have feel for the disk space required by new OS since I installed it not so long ago. As for Firewire, I did not intend to give, as you call it, "lesson" on network protocols (I'm hardware guy) but rather point out the main d... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? "The new OS for both platforms requires more RAM, more HD free space and more processor power than ever (even though streaming music is not really processor/memory intensive)."No, new Snow Leopard requires 100MB less disk space than Leopard. Also ... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Paulsax - I went thru all DOS and Windows version in last 25 years nad now have Mac Mini for about a year. Oh my God - what a difference. The problem is not only that Windows is clumsy and unstable but that Microsoft doesn't fix their own mistakes... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Let me give you example how bad Windows is. Every time new program brings new version of certain DLL (dynamic link library) older programs might stop working because it has the same name and new DLL was not fully tested with existing programs or o... | |
| Why are there so many Mac users? Mac OSX is based on "Free BSD" (Berkley Software Distribution) that derived from Unix. It is even more stable than Unix for the following reason (quote from Wikipedia): "FreeBSD is a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers and all of... |