perrew

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Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini
I still kind of fail to see what the SSDs do for sonics, are they having lesser electrical noise?You say the drive dont matter because it all is loaded into memory so why then use a SSD?How do you play High-Res files? 
Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini
Prpixel,I thought regular HDDs did sequential (what most programs do) loadings faster than SSDs?Do you copy the music from the external to the internal when you want to listen a song? What type of power supplies do you run, battery or Linear PS?Ch... 
Schröder Tonearm
Dgad,what happened to your system, did you sell it?I thought you made a foray into computer audio?Cheers P 
WHAT ABOUT CLOCKS?
Huntermusic,if you would like both a very good CD/SACD player and a music server the APL NWO-M player is based on Esoterics best VRDS-Neo CD/SACD mechanism but has a much more advanced Dac and music server capability. This means you can either ins... 
Damn Apple..a fence sitter's dilemma
Mmike84, can you elaborate on the diff SSD vs. hDD in the Mac Mini?Still you need to load up the music you want to play on the SSD from somewhere since it cant hold all you music? 
perfectwave combo or..? MBL + Bryston setup
Buy the APL Dac-S and you can skip the Pre.If you wanna go the extra mile swing for the APL NWO-M. 
Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player
I think many has done the À/B-ing but come to different results Depending on how advanced each setup were. My experience is that CD done "right" sounds better than PC/Mac->Dac done "right". My A/B-ing was done with same Dac so difference was CD... 
The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp
Theres a pair of HE90 available at eightyfivehundred over at headfi at the momemnt. 
The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp
O2Mk.I and BHSE are worth investigating although the wait for the BHSE is approx 1 year. 
The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp
O2Mk.I and BHSE are worth investigating although the wait for the BHSE is approx 1 year. 
Any better DAC then dCS Scarlatti?
So when are you trying the best one ?:-) 
Best Integrated, period.
Argyro, I agree:-)But at least I bought one of the ones I asked about two years ago and heard all of them plus some more. And Im not about to change yet. 
Best Integrated, period.
Lavezzi71, Im guessing you never heard the APL amp. Baryshnikov vs. Elephant. 
Best Rock Album in 2010
Bill Kiss released new in 2009, so they just missed this thread:-)I got the Broken Bells album though, its very nice! 
Best Rock Album in 2010
Bill, come on Broken Bells are soft pop, Im talking ROCK!!! here:-)