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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Monk,Very cool you have the Blue Circle OHMs! I'd love to hear those.OHM models 5 and 5000 have 4 three way level adjustments. Perspective equates to a mid-range adjustment essentially on those. I suspect yours is similar?The other three are for t... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS "Mapman, do you have in mind any specific combination of very efficient speakers and a powerful amp?"THe powerful SS amps are my current Bel Canto ref1000a mono- blocks. No specific speakers in mind, though I am more interested initially with smal... | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? If you need them, moving to Washington or Colorado might be a good tweak! :-) | |
| Need a system for Chamber music--ideas? IT's also a good point that experimentation with the placement of the Maggies in the room along with corresponding sweet spot might get you further towards what you seek, maybe completely. I've owned Maggies and proper placement is critical for go... | |
| SB Touch...buh bye. Hello Android Media Box... "Mapman, since you already have a Squeezebox Mediaserver setup, you could use the SqueezePlayer app to turn the MINIX into a Squeezebox. Then you should be able to still use any Squeezebox controller like SqueezeCommander or Logitech's app."That's... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS I have seen apparently vendor neutral headphone websites that provide very detailed charts regarding headphone specifications at teh various frequencies. I found that very useful to help sort through the myriads of headphone/earphone products out ... | |
| Need a system for Chamber music--ideas? The headphone idea is a good one!I have Klipsch Image S4 earbuds and a pair of Stax electrets. The Stax have a lot to offer in terms of musical texture and detail, similar to panel speakers but without teh room acoustics as said. The Klipsch cost ... | |
| Need a system for Chamber music--ideas? Of the speakers I have heard I would consider in your case from your description:- PSB Synchrony- Totem Mani 2- OHM Walsh would be something different (omnis) but that might still fit the bill and share many positive attributes of both panel and d... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion DTC,"All it really has to do is keep the buffer full and not get in the way of the aysnc USB requests."That's pretty much always the case, isn't it? Asynch USB might be faster/more efficient compared to other protocols maybe, but the data has to b... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion IT boils down to the software must be able able to run correctly and fast enough to maintain a in-memory cache of data that is available at the exact time needed for playback. Playback happens in real time, so data must be continuously streamed, m... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion When FLAC and wav sound different, its probably more due to the different software in play for each and how that is written, designed, and performs more so than the format. Decompressing FLAC files will probably require more CPU processing, but sh... | |
| SB Touch...buh bye. Hello Android Media Box... I started dabbling with xbmc media server (on Windows) and using my android tablet to control it. Looks promising early on. Not quite ready to dump my Squeezebox devices yet, though I am interested in forging ahead to perhaps at least try a device... | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? Music fulfills a need for many. Thats why it is so popular, right? There is an emotional connection enabled by our sense of hearing specifically. | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion I am running a trial version of switch converter software as we speak. Its in process of test converting all my files from wav to flac to see how it goes. Over 21000 files to convert. Should complete this weekend sometime i'm hoping and then will ... | |
| D-SONIC SOA Class-D Core Amps. The best Class-D ? "It appears that B&O has not moved beyond pulse width modulation, which is the area that amp enigineers have focused on in recent years claiming that PWM has hit its limit regarding the problems with PWM such as feedback and noise in the upper... |