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| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Timing information? You pull down the audio from a CD into a WAV, the timing information is encoded as samples in the WAV file. The exact same samples are encoded into the FLAC or ALAC.Timing information discrepancies are going to come from how yo... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Let me ask you a question, since you're convinced that they can sound different.Take a folder full of Word documents. ZIP it. Heck, re-ZIP it several times. Extract all the files. Do your Word documents look different? Did the formatting change? W... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Blindjim,I do find still greater diffs using FLAC vs. Apple lossless too... and this might be due to the media player or codec (s) being used. FLAC having simply more resolution and detail which offers greater presence. AIF is quite close though..... | |
| Channel Islands D-100 Amplifier These amps sound like they're really something... I figured Dusty would eventually do something like this though.Most of these digital amps are built off modifying or just plain using a reference amp module as it comes from the tech vendor.So you ... | |
| Personal amp evolution ONIX A-120 MkII IntegratedMcCormack DNA-1 DeluxeBedini BA-802McCormack DNA-125Plinius 8200 MkIIONIX A-120 MkII IntegratedAragon 8008BBIf anyone is looking for a SUPERB value for a great integrated on a budget you absolutely MUST audition the ONIX.... | |
| Best Intergrated Amp. Under 1k with "PRAT" Check the new ONIX A-120 MkII... 120 WPC into 8 Ohms... I had one driving my 4 Ohm 88 dB efficient speakers until recently when I decided to try a few more powerful amps being driven directly from my CDP which has integrated volume control...The A... | |
| How is your many titles in your digital collection I have no idea how so many of you can have multiple thousands of CD's... I figured out the other day that if I purchase about another 45 albums I'll own almost every underground hip-hop album worth the CD it was stamped on, and I hit my wits end w... | |
| Anyone using an Apogee Mini-Dac? I've not used the Mini-DAC, but my recomendation at that price level from my experience in music production would be to grab the Mobile I/O ULN-2 from Metric Halo.You'll have no need for the +DSP feature, and while MSRP on the base ULN-2 is $1,195... | |
| Jolida JD100A As far as tubes go...http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1082663945&read&3&4&I think based on the experience I had, which includes listening to a little Primus, that the SED tubes would work great for your listening t... | |
| Is this Sony CDP still good???? I forgive you, it's not your fault you haven't heard the Jolida I have in my setup ;) :DCheers!-Nathan | |
| Differences in Jolida JD-100's? What would you say was the biggest difference between the Sovtek's and the EH's?The Sovtek's seem to have pretty decent treble extension, they create great well articulated bass, and the mid range is pretty fluid.I'm just curious what the sonic di... | |
| Differences in Jolida JD-100's? Hey thanks for all the info guys! :)I love the player, haven't had a chance to do any tube rolling. I was planning on doing some comparisons between the Sovtek LPS tubes and the stock tubes, but since for whatever reason my player didn't have the ... |