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| Panasonic SA-XR45 & Digital Amps? Abex, thanks for the info. It's much appreciated. | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Eldartford, you can't be serious? | |
| Sound Card with External DAC Gonglee3, for 2 channel applications most of the RME product line is overkill, but they do offer superior performance. Is the subtle increase in performance worth the additional cost and complexity? I think we each have to answer that question for... | |
| Does transport matter if using external DAC? Being that a theory should be testable, why don't you simply connect a number of different transports to a specific DAC and see if you can hear a difference. If you hear no difference, then what does it matter what anyone else says? If you do hear... | |
| Looking For High Quality Equipment Rack I ended up going with a 5 shelf Mapleshade Samson. From what I could tell the Grand Prix is the ultimate, but it's very pricey and somewhat inflexible if my system were to dramatically change (always a possibility). The Mapleshade seems to have so... | |
| Panasonic SA-XR45 & Digital Amps? Abex, What power cord would you recommend? | |
| Computer-based digital audio repository system Get an Apple G5 and an Apple iPod. Together with the supplied iTunes software this system will meet all your goals. The G5 has built in optical (Toslink) digital I/O; iTunes will organize your music into playlists and the iPod will allow you to ta... | |
| Sound Card with External DAC Talking about whether CD-ROM drives are truly accurate misses the point of computer based systems. The original question was about putting together a high end computer based system and if that's the case the CD-ROM is not important in playback sin... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Eldartford, recording for pop/rock music imposes a different set of priorites than for classical or even jazz. Instrument separation is one of the key factors. You don't want the sound of another instrument bleeding into the piano's microphones. I... | |
| Which is more important? You should be congratulated for having put together a nicely balanced system. To really take it to the next level would involved a complete change out of components and the expenditure of fairly large sums of money. If you are serious it might hel... | |
| Affordable musically fast subwoofer You might consider the Monitor Audio subs. They don't go that deep, nor that loud, but they are well suited for music applications. They're well under $1k on the used market. | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? This is a link to an article in the current Mix magazine regarding how engineers record piano. Of particular interest should be the comments by Tony Faulkner. | |
| The Thor TPA 150 Monoblocks are incredible I've only heard the 30 watt stereo amp and the original preamp. It was at Holm Audio (suburban Chicago). I believe the speakers were Alon Circe. It sounded so good! Is it the best? Probably not, but I can't really say that I've heard anything that... | |
| The Thor TPA 150 Monoblocks are incredible If you've heard Thor products you'll know Musicdesign's enthusiasm is not misplaced. | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? There's plenty of music and tons of sound below 50Hz. The lowest note on a 4 string bass guitar is 41Hz. The increasingly popular 5 string bass guitar is even lower. Synthesizers, a ubiquitous instrument in modern pop/rock, can go well down past 5... |