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| spdif vs toslink Ntscdan, they'll probably give you a refurbished iPod. I've had very good experiences with RME audio cards. Their 96 Series offers AES/EBU balanced outputs and goes for about $400. I think it's the best way to go, but might want to try the glass o... | |
| NHT 3.3 or Mirage M1Si? From your description of what type of sound you want the NHT 3.3 is the better choice. Though there is a caveat, they won't sound real "liquid". As stated by others above, the NHTs require plenty of high quality watts and a lot of attention to pla... | |
| spdif vs toslink I once read a story where a mastering engineer claimed he could tell whether it was a Maxtor or a Western Digital HD attached to his DAW. He was probably making a joke. The key factors with drives is the interface and platter rotation speed. Any r... | |
| Panasonic digital amps and 4 ohm speakers Streetdaddy, what is your source component and what type of signal are you feeding the Panasonic? SFC modes cannot be used with Dolby Digital, DTS or high sample rate signals. | |
| beware ipod Ntscdan, your statement that "basically the ipod is not up for heavy duty wav playback" is not true. The type of hard drive used in the iPod is a common typed used in numerous laptop applications. Using WAV or AIFF format files will increase the n... | |
| Abandonning Powered Speakers - Why? There are big sonic advantages to be gain by the elimination of passive crossover components and employing active line level crossovers to dedicated amplifiers in either a biamp or triamp configuration. If your design must have a crossover, then a... | |
| Bands who'se names describe thier sound. FunkadelicsSly & the Family Stone (only from "Fresh" onward)James White & the Blacks | |
| Andra II vs. WattPup 7 vs Legacy Focus 20/20 If the reveiwers at Stereophile are "goofballs" then why would you give credence to their measurements? Also, regardless of how a speaker measures in an anechoic chamber the real test of a proper design is whether the speaker sounds flat in an app... | |
| beware ipod Clearly Ntcsdan got a defective unit which if he takes the effort should be replaced by Apple under warranty. As far as downloading songs into an iPod, it takes less than an hour to transfer songs from my computer and completely fill my 30Gb model... | |
| Dylan, Richards, and Waits I saw the Dylan Victoria's Secrtet ad two days ago and I was dumbstruck. I thought he looked like he had some work done recently. | |
| Help Where to start with jazz????? Not that I disagree with any of the suggestions, but whenever someone asks for where to start in jazz, and it is a frequent question, why are all the suggestions post 1950 music? The 50s and 60s were great and innovative years for jazz, but by the... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Although well argued and quite informative the original post essentially is a argument of the type "the sound I prefer is right, and all others are wrong". If I've learned anything from reading on Audiogon is that educated and informed audiophiles... | |
| Any good "how to" guides on parametric EQ? Parametric EQs are fairly basic in their operation. Most contain two different types of EQ. The first is hi and lo shelving filters which are akin to traditional hi-fi treble and bass controls. A hi shelf filter can increase/decrease the frequenci... | |
| ain't got no soul: bad covers of great soul songs All time top of the list goes to Pat Boone's rendition of "Tutti Frutti". It says something about American 50s culture that it actually outsold the Little Richard version.BTW, I like the Huey Lewis version of "Cruisin'". No it's not equal to Smoke... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Interesting discussion with many valid points, but has anyone actually heard any of the 3 speakers in question? It's raises eyebrows that these speakers may measure poorly (and the Stereophile graphs are not the final word in how these speakers me... |