onhwy61
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| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? If you concede better bass extension to another system, then how can it truly be SOTA? My concept of SOTA is that it cannot be outperformed in any given performance area. Equalled, yes, but not outperformed. I'm purely speculating about the qualit... | |
| iTunes star ratings, play count, playlist info The iTunes library file keeps track of where the music files are located, so when copying your music files you would have to maintain the same drive heirarchy in the new location in order to make use of the old library file. Assuming that's the ca... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? Actually I don't have any definitive answers. My position on this subject is best contained in my earlier post of 3/15. As far as specific systems go, take a look at the Virtual System section titled "All Out Assault". Your Meyer X10/EMM/etc. syss... | |
| iTunes star ratings, play count, playlist info Your question is very unclear. If you actually moved the iTunes library folder to the new drive, then you would have kept all the info the library file contained. It sounds like you moved your music files to the new hard drive, but then started a ... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? Cinematic Systems, it is you who are 100% wrong. The systems you offer as proof against spending megabucks are in no way state of art systems. Excellent systems, yes. Pushing the envelop of sound reproduction, no. | |
| Jazz CD suggestions for evening ambience It's fascinating that so many people consider jazz as background music. I'm sure Coltrane/Hartman/Montgomery/Pepper et. al. intended it that way. | |
| "The Law of Diminishing Returns"??? Everybody has their own point where spending more money makes little sense. For most audiophile that point would be greater than $1,000/component. Truly great sounding systems can be assembled for $7k, but if you want state of the art sound you wo... | |
| USB Soundcards - faint popping/clicks The only other thing I could recommend is making sure you have all the upgrades for whatever version of OS X you're using. This doesn't mean you have to upgrade to the latest version, but that for whatever version you are using that it has all the... | |
| Mackie 824/Apogee mini-dac Contact fellow Audiogon member Rsbeck. He runs that setup. | |
| That nice, unforced, relaxed, easeful sound ?? Be careful, not all recorded music and I mean well-recorded music is nice, unforced, relaxed and easeful. Violins, brass, drums, pianos, guitars (both electric and acoustic) and certain vocalists can all sound aggressive, shrill, edgy and downrigh... | |
| USB Soundcards - faint popping/clicks Clicking is frequently a sign of some sort of clock issue. Make sure you have the most up to date drivers for the Waveterminal. | |
| ultimate final word what we want out of our system To play music without thinking of the system. | |
| Rowland Concentra vs. Concentra II I currently have or have owned JRDG Coherence preamp, Model 1 amp, Model 112 amp and Concentra I integrated. I think their products are wonderful and with the exception of the preamp bulletproof. The negative comments stated in the post I referenc... | |
| Rowland Concentra vs. Concentra II This is the thread I was referring to. Take it for what it's worth. | |
| Rowland Concentra vs. Concentra II The II has a different treble character than the original. It's more upfront and explicit. The II is not a hard sounding amp, if anything, the original is a little soft sounding.Do an archive search, I remember somewhat was quite adamant about the... |