objective1
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| Watch TV by pass preamp/processor the preamp will only act as a bypass if the preamp offers that option. Some more contemporary preamps offer the option of a home theater passthrough. In those cases, the preamp provides no gain to the input and passes the output directly to the am... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Excellent write... :-)Kind of wondering why you'd use a lossy compression algorithm after going thru all the trouble to rip them accurately.I'm also using the setup you describe and ripping to ALAC. I then save the .wav's to an archive drive in ca... | |
| what is a lazy old audiophile to do? Soo... no one seems to have stated some of the obvious...First.. Your iMac has an optical toslink out thru the same mini jack you are using as a headphone output. You can purchase a very nice glass toslink mini to std toslink connector cable from ... | |
| How good is the Krell DVD Standard?? I have a DVD standard and drive a runco front projector (DTV-940) on a 96" screen... in the day of analog projectors, the only better DVD player i ever saw was the Meridian 800. (looked at denon, Pioneer Elite, others..) I've seen them on here for... | |
| SS integrated amp for under 2k Krell 400xiNait 5iCreek destiny,5350 | |
| Best headphones for iTouch I have Ultimate Ears UE11's and love them.... upgraded from the Shure se530's. and prior the Etymotics (ER-4s). If you are really geeking out, get a lineout doc and a small headphone amp (i'm a ray samuels fan).Yes the amp adds bulk, but personall... | |
| Internet Radio: Audiophile or no? I've been using WRTI's hd streaming through winamp to run in my new Bel Canto Dac3... Sounds pretty darned good...and instantly gives me an extensive jazz collection. Dunno yet if it rivals my lossless rips, but it certainly is a wonderful asset. | |
| External DAC vs. your quality processor i have an HTS 7.1 in my theater and a DVD Standard driving it. Just comparing the 2 channel dac in the Standard to thw HTS, the dvd players 2 channel dac sounded much better. I was comparing the two channel performance through a transparent audio ... | |
| Best movie for subwoofer test ? Transformers for sure...and we've been amazed by the most recent Die Hard movie - Live Free or Die Hard - lots of pants fluttering bass | |
| Need advice from experienced sellers i ditto the sell as is. Let your potential buyers make the decision. I sold an amp that had some shipping damage to the heatsinks. the amp worked great, but at 4k, you wouldn't want to pay full price. After considering the shipping damage coverage... | |
| The Most You Have Paid For Shipping Large amps coast to coast in the US have been between $190 and $275 (Plinius SA 250, Levinson ML336).My Martin Logan ReQuests came from LA -> Phila, 235$. ....and that was at least 4 years ago. Shipping ain't cheap. | |
| DAC or. Lynx 2 sound card with Vista OS i ran a Vista system through a Bel Canto Dac 3... lossless sound files (ALAC) EAC ripped cd'sthrougha Krell 400xi and Wilson SophiasSound was very nice.. i can't imagine you could even get closs to that with a sound card... | |
| components vs integrated vs "lifestyle solutions" Similar thoughtsI had the surround sound bug, and had setup every room with a tv in my house with surround sound receivers. They've all now been replaced with integrated amps where the amp selection was partially driven by the paucity of knobs/sel... | |
| USB DAC's ? I did the Bel Canto Dac3 from a pc music server. Liked it a lot. It is also well reviewed.. slightly better reviews than the Benchmark (check the stereophile review) I used the dac in a Krell and Wilson system.Buy used and just resell the one you ... | |
| Speaker Purchase You absolutely need to take your own music. You should select a few cd's (and some vinyl if you have it) that you know well, and that fits the overall genre of what you like to listen to. This will help you establish a baseline across multiple lis... |