mapman
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| From high end digital to beginners analog? If you have the records to play and the desire to hear them it will not be a waste. You should be able to get sound in the same league as very good digital for that price easily. Just do your homework and be smart or find an expert you trust to st... | |
| Importance of computer for DAC shootout I suppose it depends on how well the mac works out then. I'm hoping it does.But to answer your question I am also saying that the choice of device feeding the DAC and the intereface used can make a difference in the sound. If the Mac or other comp... | |
| Importance of computer for DAC shootout "Call me an audio snob but I am deeply sceptical of $300 devices being able to perform at the level of mac based music server architectures, used by computer audiophiles the world over. "Well, one is entitled to be skeptical but I suspect that one... | |
| Importance of computer for DAC shootout Have you considered using a network player like Squeezebox Touch as the source to the DAC?That would effectively take the "computer" out of the sound making process. Squeezebox is designed for use with good audio gear. Most home computers includin... | |
| Which band's vinyl catalog is consistently great? Procol Harum for the most part anyway save perhaps their earliest lp or so.Caravan is another similar.Camel, Kayak and Klaatu and The Cars also come to mind.I suppose The Moody Blues qualify as well though the sound of many of teh classic 7 albums... | |
| What is your favorite tv theme song/composition? That music they used to play on Lost In Space during suspense sequences like just before Dr. Smith bumped into some "horrid creature" unexpectedly. | |
| Variations in how your system sounds? If one cleans their records one would hope that one would also clean ones ears in order to hear better as well as for hygiene reasons, right? It can and does make a difference. Now to start the marketing campaign for "Earcleaners for Audiophiles".... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? "Living Dangerously - Vintage DD Turntables"Sounds like a good premise for a new and suspenseful reality series on The Learning Channel featuring adventurous daredevil audiophiles that love to push the limits beyond the norm. | |
| Variations in how your system sounds? Absence makes the heart grow fonder, no doubt! :-) | |
| Variations in how your system sounds? We are not machines so we certainly do not perform equally well at anything every day, including focus and hearing.Consistency of source power and operation of any of our devices together day to day is always suspect but its hard to take the human... | |
| TECHNICS SL1200 MKII.......THE REAL FACTS There is something to be said for tts made back in the day when they were actually common and popular with the masses.Most of teh better newer "audiophile" tables are good no doubt, but more of a boutique type item which is different. They have a ... | |
| For real bass freaks?? I think I saw this on "1000 Ways to Die" TV show, can't recall the exact #. | |
| Procul H's I have most every classic PH album and a few CD compilations and they have all always sounded pretty to very good depending. PHs overall body of work is one the best and most varied in the rock music genre ever IMHO. | |
| CD Ripping software Almarg's scenario is as likely as any I suppose for accounting for sonic differences associated with format.But again, if so, it is not because the flac format looses anyting (when done correctly) but for other reasons associated with the playback... | |
| CD Ripping software lossless is lossless even if compressed if done correctly. if one hears a difference from one lossless format tomanother, there is a reason other than format. not to y they are guaranteed to sound the same either. some software is better than othe... |