mapman
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| The best speaker you ever heard? Not sure which is "best" but my all time favorites I have heard are my current OHM F5 series 3, mbl 111e, and Magico Mini II, Totem Mani 2, or most any model Dynaudio for smaller monitors, if not smaller OHM Microwalsh as an option to those. | |
| Need a good easy to use music manager for PC BEst to convert to FLAC. VArious tools for fixing tags and cover art there. No really comprehensive and fast options with .wav.I just converted 1Tb of .wav files to FLAC recently using MEdiaMonkey. Once set up correctly, the conversion took about ... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? PLEX is really very simple, at least the basic server and GUI apps are. Its still evolving very actively though, so I expect even better things soon down the road.It can get a little tricky when you add in things like Casting, but that is a very n... | |
| Edgar Winter is still alive. Ironic how people we like get the most threads only when when they die. :^( | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Tbg,You definitely have a "laboratory" mentality it seems when it comes to this stuff. Nothing wrong with that, but realize that a lot of what happens in a laboratory ends up being of little value to most.I disagree that we know so little about pr... | |
| Can we talk? I have "splurged" but seldom ever bought merely on an impulse.No real horror stories to tell, luckily.I paid almost $4K for my current amplifiers. There were other similar amps out there for less than half that cost, but I splurged on the Bel Cant... | |
| Why not magnetic tapes in stead of vinyl records? Whoops I converted about 2000 CDs actually, not just 200 as I typed prior. That would take 1/10th the time to convert. :^) | |
| Why not magnetic tapes in stead of vinyl records? Converting formats of computer files, when needed, is relatively easy.I just converted all my .wav files to FLAC, something I knew I would do eventually when I started several years back.I did it with free MediaMonkey software, a few mouse clicks,... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? PLEX media server and player appliations is a very good place for anyone to start with that is looking for good sounding computer audio without a major investment in a lot of proprietary hardware, like SOnos, BlueSound, or Squeezebox in the past.P... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Lab,The error in your logic is that there is no sound made with the data transfer function of any computer system. Data is just moved from one place to another over a network connection. Algorithms implemented in teh computer software GUARANTEE th... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones HEadphones are the rest of hifi audio's biggest enemy, because so many things can be done right with headphones for so little.You don't get the soundstage and imaging, or the associated illusion of live music, which is very important to me, but in... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones Headphones take room acoustics out of the game and are the easiest and most inexpensive way to establish a good reference for listening to recordings on the smallest possible scale, as a start. | |
| Is computer audio a bust? "Not going to spend anything until I feel comfortable I know just what I'm getting into. Always a good idea. :^) | |
| Why not magnetic tapes in stead of vinyl records? "A friend of mine in the record business said that a digital master file at the studio was absolutely amazing and in some ways better than analog. However, the first time it's moved, transferred or copied something happens to it al tdigind it's ne... | |
| music server setup questions DB, You can do it either way and compare.A wireless network cnnoection helps isolate music making streamer and DAC elctronically and physically from often noisy general purpose computer. Its an insurance policy against noise or other computer arti... |