ntscdan
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| Your Favorate JBL's from the 70's I got a pair of JBL 4311's back in the 80s from a radio station. I still have them and can't part with them. Much of the music that I like to listen to was mixed on 'gerbils" so it's a good fit. They are on stands and flipped upside down about 18"... | |
| Your Favorate JBL's from the 70's Still use a mint pair of 4311B's that I got from a radio station. Bruce Swedien used a pair of 4310's for most of his mixes so if you like 70s music... | |
| Short report on EAR Acute CD player If you really want to enjoy digital don't listen to analog. A few years ago I tried an Audio Research Dac 3 that was stuffed with tubes and they didn't help. I'm still happy with my Benchmark USB Dac running off my cheapo Windows Vista/Media Monke... | |
| Regular Cardas interconnects for VPI? That's a good point about shielding but I can't imagine that dedicated phono cables would have more shielding than regular ICs. I have a set of SME phono cables that I've been using and other than the nice plugs they don't look like anything special. | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? Thanks for the suggestions! I take clean power and proper cables for granted. I'm using the Benchmark in USB mode with balanced Cardas Hexlink 5C cables for the output...Cardas Quadlink power cord plugged into an Inouye conditioner which is plugge... | |
| DAC advice for the non-tech-savvy I agree with Bob....the Benchmark doesn't sugarcoat lousy source material but it's sweet with good recordings. Of all the dough I've spent on audio gear in the last 20 years or so it's given me the best bang for my audio buck. I'm primarily an ana... | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of itunes running on windows constantly crashed and stalled once the library got large. I also don't like their convoluted file system and heaven help you if you have to move your library.AIFF only works on macs and I don't think you can "tag" the ar... | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of The bluetooth keyboard from Apple will work just fine except of course some of the keys won't function. ie. the volume control. You really don't want to use it anyway since the volume control on MM should be set at maximum. BTW microsoft has solve... | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of Media Monkey would sometimes freeze when I was importing discs. I suspect it is a conflict with my CD-rom drivers but the problem was intermittent so I can't be sure. Considering I loaded about 3000+ discs it wasn't that bad. On playback the progr... | |
| ipod balanced output No, it does increase the gain by +6db but my preamp gets a balanced single as opposed to single ended. | |
| CD v.s LP - When comming from the same MASTER I also have a high end vinyl playback system and I beg to differ. The vinyl that I mistakenly purchased that is cut from digital masters is actually much worse than the CD equivalent because of the increased noise floor for one. Plus digital maste... | |
| CD v.s LP - When comming from the same MASTER I am missing something here. If the master was recorded digitally there is zero point in buying a vinyl pressing.If you think I am kidding go and pick up a couple of 80s CBS Half Speed Masters. Some genius thought it would be a good idea to digiti... | |
| Sliding down the 78 rpm slippery slope....help Thanks as usual everyone...as soon as I saw the beast sitting in the store I thought of audiogon...I haven't decided whether to bring another "stray" into the house....I think Elizabeth is right...I need something that I can tweak and get the maxi... | |
| spdif vs toslink Thanks for the card link...16,000 songs! What kind of music are you listening to?...a bit of everything I guess.Maybe I am missing something! For me its jazz and mostly 60s soul/r&b...and a very selective amount of "classic" country from my te... | |
| spdif vs toslink I sent the ipod back to apple for repair. Considering the thing last only a month I figured they'd just give me a new one, but no such luck. I do like the itunes software so something good came out of the experience. I have and AES/EBU input on my... |