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| how to get good sounding copies of CDs I have definitely noticed a loss in quality using itunes to make CD copies for my own use on a Mac G4 compared to making direct copies CD to CD using disk mastering software. Exactly as you describe, less sparkle and space in the playback of itune... | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 04rdking,1. The Naim n-vi is a great piece even if you don't use all the channels or the video. A simple one box solution with very good sound.2. The Arcam Solo is very slick looking, but the sound is not up to the same level as the Naim in my boo... | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Pzuckerman,Interesting direction of this thread. I am assisting some friends and relatives in purchasing HD video and audio equipment and have been doing some shopping. Within the last twelve hours I read an article in What HiFi about the PS3, tal... | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 Naim n-Vi integrated CD/DVD player/processor/amplifier. All-in-one unit - costs like $6K. Get some good $2-3K speakers and some speaker cables and you are good to go at your budget. Plays movies too. | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Wait! Wait!! Don't buy yet!!! | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 Go listen to something like these and see what you think.System 1:Musical Fidelity A5.5 integrated amp and CDPRevel M22 stand mount speakersVPI Aries Scout turntable with Grado Platimum cartridgeSystem 2:Naim Nait 5i integrated amp, CD5i CDP and N... | |
| "The Death of High Fidelity" I read the above with fascination and some horror. I have some modern recordings that are highly distorted (almost anything by John Mayer) or shrill and flat sounding (almost anything I own from Sony Classical made in the last ten years), and some... | |
| Audio Dealers in Greater Portland OR Area Fred's Sound of Music on Hawthorne St. www.fredsoundofmusic.com | |
| cambridge audio 640c v2 annoying click? Boy, I had never cared about this until you pointed it out. I took my head phones off, stopped my CD, started it again, my 640C V2 clicked, a little bit. I still don't care. It has tremendously good sound for the cost - not high-end per say - but ... | |
| Best setup for Totem Arros... Try these combinations:Shanling CD-T80, andUsed Musical Fidelity A3.2 integrated amplifier (A3.5 if you can find it in your budget, or add used MF CDP too)-spatial resolution will make Totem Arros disappear, among other good thingsorused Naim CD5(... | |
| What started you on the merry go round? Not really an epiphany, but a long trail to the rabbit hole. When I was young, my parents (dad) listened to a lot of music on this funky system he set up with an HH Scott tube receiver, old Garrard record changer and two large "full spectrum" spea... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables If the Meridian approach was a smashing commercial success, I guess it would be more popular among manufacturers. Market forces, whatever they may be, seem to dictate otherwise. I got a kick out of your analogy with the fashion industry - perhaps ... | |
| Need advise regarding small bookshelf monitor Wharfedale Diamonds 9.1 or 9.2, B&W 686, PSB Alpha, Paradigm Atom, Era Design 4. | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables I am just curious, if multiamplification is such an obvious advantage, why don't I hear more on this site about Meridian speakers? Specific execution by that brand, or not as great in general practice as in theory? Or is it marketing psychology - ... | |
| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? Just received well over 100 LPs from my father's collection ranging from vintage mono from around 1950 to pre-digital early 1980s. Very broad range of stuff. I have only a vague idea what treasures are buried in there, but will get back to you on ... |