macdadtexas
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| I Tunes Backup Synthfreak, I own a Mac and I am well versed in Timemachine, Drobo is not backup, but redundant storage. It's not cheap initially, but in the long run as external drives fail, as every one I have had over the years has, it is MUCH cheaper. SATA dr... | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? I wish my guilty pleasures included Hush and Magic Carpet Ride, those are just good songs!! Also, the 3 Dog Nt sounds awesome. Never Been to Spain, what a great song. Got another record to hunt for now!! | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? "Life is a Rock" and Queen "The Game" I am on my way to the Cactus records to look through the $1 bin. Good calls. I don't think those have been re-issued on 180g vinyl. | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? OK, Mapman mentioned the Partridge Family, so I feel better about the Producers now. | |
| Storing Cd's on Hard Disk Looking at your system, I think unless you go to an MBL or similar DAC you will be disappointed in the sound quality from any digital file. As far as the mechanism I have not really ever heard it discussed at length, it is the format that is usual... | |
| Rock: well recorded bass...60s/70s I am shocked by how much better the bass is on vinyl than on any discs, including SACD's that I have ever listened to. I especially noticed it on Led Zeppelin recordings. The boxed set CD version of Ramble On campared to the almost 40 yr old vinyl... | |
| Best HT Receiver Under 1000$ I love my Denon 3808ci, I think you can get them now for about $1k. | |
| G'N'R Chinese Democracy LP I'm really going to get slammed, but I liked the Velvet Revolver albums, but I loved Stone Temple Pilots. Scott Weidland is great singer, and that band absolutely rocked (thanks to the DeLeo Bros). Of course he's a drug addict, so who knows if/whe... | |
| G'N'R Chinese Democracy LP Like he needs another decade to work on it, and Slash to play guitar on it. Sucks. | |
| I Tunes Backup Not if the external drive fails and needs to be replaced. Also, you are limited by the size of the drive you are backing up. You use the Drobo as an external drive, it has virtually no size limit, and acts as it's own back up, no need to use addit... | |
| Pass, Bryston, Audio Research, or McIntosh? I have 3.6R's and I have had both Mac 501's and the Pass 350 in my system, as well as many others, and those were, in my opinion and experiece, two of the least well matched amps for my Maggies. I have had Brytons's big Parasounds (JC1's) and they... | |
| I need help putting together a budget system I don't understand why active speakers are a problem with mulitple sources? You are just forgoing the amps, the signal still comes from a preamp that switches the sources, and manages volume.I love the Gallos, I have had them before, it seems to m... | |
| I need help putting together a budget system Room makes a huge difference, well size does matter. I now change the speakers to Paradigm 20 Actives (no longer made, but come for sale fairly regularly), since you now don't need an amp, I would suggest getting a VPI Scout turntable, cartridge o... | |
| I Tunes Backup I repeat, look at a Drobo, look it up on CNET. It's the idiots version of RAID, couldn't be easier. No back up needed, it is it's own backup. | |
| I need help putting together a budget system Love the Apogee DAC with active speaker idea of Ajahu, nice approach. I would suggest:Magnepan 1.6qr's $1000 (used)Innersound ESL amp $1300 (used)AES Tube Pre $700 (used)AppleTV $269TADAC tube DAC $700AES phono stage $300Project Debut III $400 (wi... |