lordmelton
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| Surge protector/conditioner for vintage system There are only a two serious options to protect your system. 1. Insurance 2. Dedicated Solar Power with battery storage or floated batteries on mains power using an inverter. Although I live in a high lighting strike area, almost everything i... | |
| Okto DAC 8 Stereo (Shout-out) My initial impressions are as follows: This is the most transparent DAC I have ever heard, previously owning Denafrips Terminator, Holo Spring, Sonnet Morpheus, Aqua La Scala, PS audio PW DSD and others of lesser renown and quality. Honestly? | |
| best SACD player Once you figure out how to rip your SACDs there's no going back. I use an OPPO 103 to rip which you can get for $200. I load the files onto my Aurender's SSD but you can load them onto a portable SSD and play them through Esoteric gear or whateve... | |
| Benefits of adding a 10MHz Master Clock to a digital system @jjhaz Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the DCS only has a pair of Wordclock inputs, 44.1 & 48 kHz. The Aurender W20 SE has a 10 mHz Masterclock input. The Aurender MC20 can do what you need I don't believe the DCS clock can. Th... | |
| Adventures In Modern Ripping @oldears Just download DVD Audio Extractor https://www.dvdae.com/download it's free for 30 days and $38.50 thereafter. It rips Blu-Ray Audio too. You only need a computer DVD/Blu-Ray drive to rip, an Oppo is only required for SACD ripping. Most... | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy 20th Century Boy - T.Rex | |
| Sharing SACDs In addendum any Rolling Stones album pre Sticky Fingers and any Beatles album is fair game because they were stolen by the devious Allen Klein and whose daughter now owns the early Stones albums, he sold the Beatles albums to the pedophile Michael... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? | |
| I downloaded high-res files and... Quick fix is to use your Mac Book but your CD9 will operate on WAV or FLAC. I don't know if Apple can play WAV and FLAC, it uses AIFF and ALAC. Maybe you need a Windows emulator? Long term solution is to get a server/streamer something like an A... | |
| Adventures In Modern Ripping @mahler123 Yes all the programs have Mac versions but to rip SACDs you need a Blu-Ray/DVD player with a Mediatek chip. There are lists online of compatible units. I use an Oppo 103. The most difficult part is loading SACD extract onto a USB drive ... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update @p05129 +1 I just couldn't stand the snap, crackle and pop and switched to SACD and DVD-A a longtime ago. Hard to find original analogue tapes in decent condition now. Most were transferred to DSD forty - odd years ago. Anyway you can get a full... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @melm Kudos again melm your post cut right to the chase - why come here to bash Musetec? A professional reviewer normally has a piece of gear in his system for at least a month before he starts the reviewing process and that could take another mo... | |
| I’m visiting Japan. Japan is fantastic and the people are generally very honest. Good FX rates now. The only problems are the language barrier and 100V equipment. I would get a guide for a day or two because there are a crazy amount of HIFI shops. I prefer Hong Kon... | |
| Ripping CD's For tagging rips I've found MP3 Tag second to none. It doesn't add additional folders to your rips and you can use MusicBrainz for free and Discogs too if you register for free. MP3 Tag is especially useful if you have an Aurender (or similar) be... | |
| Ripping CD's @jrpnde I realize there are many options out there and I have access to some of those. But......I didn't want opinions of options. My questions were very basic. More like Neolithic |