nightfall
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| Need Advice On A Network Music Player Richard,I'll be interested in hearing your thoughts after spending the time with both units. Also, you mention it being nice to play high rez files without having to turn on the pc. Aren't the files stored on the pc's hard drives? | |
| Need Advice On A Network Music Player Richard,Your observations on both units are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for the perspective. | |
| Anyone have experience with Olive 06HD? The weakness of the 4HD is the dac, which is not nearly as well implemented as it is in the 6HD. I own an 04, and have it routing its signals to a Bryston BDA-1 DAC, and the resulting sound quality is exceptional. If you already have a quality DAC... | |
| Need Advice On A Network Music Player Thanks to all for the input. I've seen nothing but raves about the Bryston, and am not averse to going that direction. It's just with the high cost of Hi Rez downloads, I'm simply not certain how far I will go with this. I would love to buy the wh... | |
| Need Advice On A Network Music Player "My advice? Don't bother. I get the best results running high Rez from a macbook (decibel software) into a Musical Fidelity V Link and out into the Dac."Well, I don't have a Mac, but is this option viable from a Windows PC? | |
| Just Given A Sony PS-X7 Turntable - Worth Using? Any recommendations on cartridges? JC | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? I've finally maaged to get it working, and thankfully, no issues with jitter, it sounds about as good as the feed allows, so I'm happy. Thanks for any recommendations and assistance. | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? I also had to connect the Airport Express to my router before I could even set it up. Which is gine, but when I disconnect it from the router, the green light goes out. I do not understand why it needs to be connected to the router. All I want is ... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? Well, I set it the Apple Express up as a new wireless network, but it doesn't seem to see my iPad 2. And the DAC sees no signal via the toslink to minijack cable. Which must be since it is getting no signal from the iPad 2. From what I've read, th... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? Magfan,Thanks for the information. Based on several recommendations above, I went with the Airport Express solution as it was less expensive, and supposedly worked well. Based on your input regarding the jitter issue, I'm now greatly regretting I ... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? Okay, on the advice of several of you, I purchased the Apple Airport Express and a well made toslink to mini jack cable, and they were just delivered today from Amazon. The manual gives multiple ways to set up the Airport Express, and I'm not sure... | |
| Best 2CH SACD Player for $2k Or Less, New or Used? I was leaning heavily towards the Sony 5400. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.Any modded players that might be selling used, that I should also consider? | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? 05-09-11: Jcote"My understanding is the airport express only streams music through the optical port. I don't believe the USB port will allow streaming."Thanks for the clarification. When I looked at the enlarged photo of thhe airport express it sh... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? "Apple Airport Express will give you by far the most convenient way to do it (wirelessly with AirTunes) -- this will allow you to still use th iPad for other stuff at the same time. Sound quality with an external DAC can be very good . . . way mor... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? " The Cambridge dock sounds interesting - can't believe it won't accomodate an IPad 2. Good luck -"Yes, the Cambridge dock was actually only available this year, but they apparently did not realize (not that I knew either) that the iPad 2 has a di... |