photon46
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| Dac recommendations for Mac Book Pro You can expand on your choices by using Hagtech's "HagUsb." For the $129 cost of admission, you can use any dac of choice and you won't be limited to just those that have usb or firewire built in. | |
| What is the best full range Speaker ? To get meaningful advice and make better informed decisions, more info would be helpful. How large a room are you going to have to fill with sound? What are the room's acoustic characteristics; lively & with bare floors & lots of glass, we... | |
| Download and "ripping" questions with a Mac. Drubin, in the many discussions about this I've read, it seems that many positive comments about AIFF or Lossless are made by those who have moved on to music servers or hard drive based systems. Negative reactions to those codecs are made more of... | |
| Download and "ripping" questions with a Mac. There has been a great deal of verbage spilled over this topic in the past and no consensus ever seems to be reached as to whether AIFF, WAV, & Lossless are sonically equivalent. I think there is a difference, depending on whether you are usin... | |
| How make my Ayre system "warmer"? Have you had other systems or components in the current listening room that didn't sound lean? Mr. Tennis' observations can be true, but it depends on the listener's preferences. His preferences, based on many prior posts, are definitely in the "w... | |
| Best Sounding SACD Joe Satriani's "Engines of Creation" is perhaps the best sounding rock recording I own. It is a studio recording with little recording venue ambiance, but that deficiency aside, it's dynamic range, frequency extension, and clarity are pretty astou... | |
| Preamp gain question Your Bryston 4b has 30 db. of gain and your PV10 has 80 db. of total gain when you factor in the 48.5 db. of the phono stage. The amp/preamp gain interface is out of whack. Mismatches of preamp/amp gain are common, but this one is pretty extreme. ... | |
| A favorite Oliver Messiaen recording I'm real fond of Chung/Bastille Opera Orchestra's Turangalilia, but my favorite is the Canyons des Etoile double disc set by Salonen and the London Sinfonietta. | |
| Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard - Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out. | |
| Cartridge upgrade for VPI Scoutmaster I've done a little recent experiment that, IMO, confirms Audiofeil's assertion of resonance issues in the JMW-9 arm. Admittedly, my Scout's Garrott Optim FGS is no uber high end cartridge. After adding a layer of SmallParts.com's thinnest resonanc... | |
| Looking For Someone That Machines Knobs Is there some special requirement that negates the use of knobs avaiible from someone like the partsconnexion or other electronic parts suppliers? If so, it's no big deal for any competent machinist to make something like a knob, but you are going... | |
| Any audiophile who is on blood pressure medication I've been monitoring and dealing with a tendency to hypertension for many years. For the last eight, I've been using TCM (traditional chinese medicine) with generally successful results. Prior to using TCM, my pressures were high all the time, now... | |
| $59 PC Options Tvad, I'm not disputing your findings in the context of your system. But as someone as experienced as yourself knows, power cords and other cables do affect universally applicable results. I've tried the Volex 17604 on every component in my system... | |
| $59 PC Options Zamdrang, not to diss any of the products under consideration, but you HAVE to consider DIY cables made from Cryo-Parts ACIII cable if you are considering available budget offerings. ACIII is now about $10 a foot, so you can make a very good ac ca... | |
| Upgrade time - PREAMP for SS power +CD+cables Don't lock yourself into preconceived ideas about "tube" and "solidstate" sounds. Talented designers can transcend old stereotypes with either type of circuit. You also need to consider how much preamp gain is appropriate for your amp. Too much pr... |