mapman
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| Fuses that matter. "With a 30 day, no risk, money-back guarantee; no one has an excuse not to try them."I am not an EE so I often do not feel qualified to determine valid replacement parts in my gear.Plus the fuses I have sound plenty good to me.Those would be my ex... | |
| Fuses that matter. Just when you think all the controversy regarding fuses has been settled This happens! | |
| Rate my rig I like the rate my rig idea. Maybe a good option for Agon to offer? Some standards for doing the ratings would be a good idea. Like 1-10, 10 being best sounding possible + reason for rating.Of course the problem would be that it can be hard to acc... | |
| No response from sellers?? Always ask questions before buying even if you think you know the answer just to help establish the credibility of the seller if not already known.Ads only run for so long. No excuses for not answering questions during that time. If questions do n... | |
| Is the Squeezebox Touch complicated? "Is it worth the upgrade to a Squeezebox Touch from a Squeezebox Classic 3 if it is being used with a W4S Dac 2?"For CD level source material, I'd guess probably not just from a sound quality perspective. I found no significant difference in sound... | |
| why performance increase after pause? You would think fancy well built and expensive CD players aimed at audiophiles at a minimum would be able to do their job properly without any special usage tweaks. I guess someone forgot something in the design and testing.Frankly I'm not sure I ... | |
| why performance increase after pause? "I have found Davehrab's tweak to work on virtually every CD player or transport I've had--Krell, Sony, EMM Labs, Forsell."If so then one more reason to dump the CD player and go to a music server.Does anyone hear a similar effect with a music ser... | |
| 67 yrs. old computer audio Dtc,Yes, I recall that feature of DBpoweramp which sounds useful.With WMP, the only tools available to determine quality are my ears. I trust them so that is where I have stayed despite thinking about giving more elaborate tools a try.I do get sol... | |
| why performance increase after pause? Davehrab, which CD player specifically have you found this to work with? The same with more than one of the same model?I'd have to think that if this works the player is either defective or poorly designed and would be looking elsewhere. | |
| Best version of Yellow Brick Road on LP GBYBR is maybe the best and most accessible double album in the pop/rock genre ever?I don't know what version sounds best I have never heard it sound less than excellent.Beatles White Album is more diversified perhaps but GBYBR is solid to great s... | |
| Blackness - how quiet does it need to be? There is signal and there is noise. Nothing else.Signal is the good. Noise is the bad.If more noise leads to better signal, that does not make the noise good. It just means there is a correlation between the two for some reason and the benefits of... | |
| Top 5 Classical recordings I'm not sure I've heard that Heifetz performance but in general I would ALWAYS look to Heifetz and the classic RCA recordings to start whenever possible.I am not a classical violin expert but I suspect Heifetz may be unmatched in his ability to af... | |
| 67 yrs. old computer audio With existing computer, as OP asks, I think it best to offload the player function to a separate device and run server only. I have done this with SB server (now called Logitech media server) on older more limited PCs with similar good results as ... | |
| 67 yrs. old computer audio One final thing. There is some overhead involved with setting up and maintaining a music server. With the recipe I provided, I find this to not take much time overall and I spend more time listening to my CDs off the server than I would otherwise ... | |
| 67 yrs. old computer audio One thing I forgot to mention is you need software to rip the CDs to disk. I find WIndows MEdia Player does a good job and is included in windows. You will need to set the output format. For best sound use a lossless format, which will make bigger... |