nnyc

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Music player recommendations?
Check out cowon america http://www.cowonamerica.com/. I use the iaudio7 and it is the best sounding player I've heard, far superior to any ipod. And it plays flac. Paired with a good headphone amp and good headphones it's a very decent portable so... 
Guitar's...what do the audionuts play?
1976 Alhambra, cedar top, solid rosewood back and sides. 
Musicians?
Thanks for the responses (except for more obvious useless threadcrap from schipo).I'm actually kind of surprised at the popularity of ribbons and electrostatics so far. There are certainly a good variety of excellent systems. I'm getting a dangero... 
PC Laptop to MSB Gold DAC Suggestions?
I have a similar setup to what you are going to be using. I have an MSB Gold Link III with powerbase, an M-Audio Audiophile USB, and an XP laptop. I use USB from laptop to the maudio, then into a Meridian 518 digital processor, which feeds the dac... 
How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP
Ok, well I finally got this to work and, more importantly, I think I understand how it works. For some reason, I had to reboot several times before foobar worked.Since the solution disables the sound controller in windows, making all features (inc... 
How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP
Thanks for the responses, but I'm not trying to disable the windows sounds, I'm trying to prevent them from being disabled. I guess I don't really understand how this can work. If you select "Do not use audio features" for a sound controller in th... 
How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP
Does unmapping the device the way Steve suggests prevent windows from making sounds (beeps, alarms, notifications, etc)? 
Foobar 2000 or MediaMonkey v.3?
Er, that was supposed to be MediaMonkey vs. MediaCenter 13 vs. Foobar. My order of preference for sound is:1. Foobar2. Mediacenter3. MediaMonkeyMy order of preference for UI is:1. MediaMonkey2. MediaCenter3. Foobar 
Foobar 2000 or MediaMonkey v.3?
I recently compared MediaMonkey MediaCenter 13 vs. Foobar 0.9.6 both with ASIO output and found MediaMonkey less clear, with a more muddled sound, particularly in the mid range, and considerably less dynamic range. MediaMonkey is also fat in the l... 
How can my setup be better?
You could try ripping with EAC and playing ASIO using Foobar. Lots of other posts in this forum have details. 
Is iPod Digital Output Possible?
I suppose it is possible that the i-deck reads data directly off the ipod disk as data files, treating it as just a USB hard disk, and uses it's own software to play and decode the files. The only strange thing about that is that you can control w... 
Is iPod Digital Output Possible?
The Monitor Audio iPod dock, the i-deck, claims to bypass the DAC inside the ipod and take a digital bistream directly from the ipod to it's own internal dac, which sounds much better than the internal dac. I'm not sure exactly how this is impleme... 
Plasma 42 inch ....
Yup, you're absolutely right, I think I must have been trying a delay that was way too high, setting to 10ms seems to improve things. Unfortunately I only have this setting on my DVD player, and not on my preamp... 
Plasma 42 inch ....
If I set a delay for the audio, it only makes things worse because that is my problem - audio before video. I need a delay for the video, but I'm not sure if that is even possible... 
Plasma 42 inch ....
Yes, you're right sorry, I meant the exact opposite of what I wrote, duh! My consistent sync problem is that the sound comes out before the video, and there is no video delay in components that I've seen... I have audio delays set on my components...