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Horns for Your iPod
Hey, it matches my white resin living room furniture perfectly. 
pre-amp unacceptable noise level?
Bad tube? Did you bias the tubes? 
Surround Sound Pre-Amp
How about a used Anthem AVM-20 for around $1000? Later,you can send it back to Sonic Frontiers and have it upgraded to an AVM-50 for $2300 and they give you a two year warranty. So that's an $5000 processor, with warranty, for about $3300; what a ... 
Squeezebox and Music Vault NAS
Cruz123,THere is a cheaper NAS from QNAP ($250 + HD) that will also do the same thing. The downside is you have to be techical proficient to set it up. Your correct about not having to turn on a computer with the Music Vault to access your music w... 
Squeezebox and Music Vault NAS
The advatage of Music Vault NAS is that it runs the squeezecenter software on the NAS. This allows you to just have the NAS powered up by itself. With a "dumb" NAS, you run the squeezecenter on your computer and it accesses the NAS. Now, you have ... 
Connect Macs to analog amplifier?
I had a Fubar II and the supplier power supply takes it to the next level. It's worthe the extra $110. 
Budget USB DAC
Once again - The Fubar II comes with a wall-wart power supply. It is not bus powered. The upgraded "Supplier" power supply improves the performance of the Fubar II. 
Budget USB DAC
Ausjoe,The Fubar III comes with a wall-wart power supply. It does not come with the Supplier power supply. If you look at the bottom right corner of the page, you'll say a box to check to add the Supplier power supply for an addition $100. The Fub... 
Budget USB DAC
The Fubar II is a great little DAC, but you'll need the Supplier power supply to make it really sing. 
Better sound with cable box or Squeezebox Duet?
Agreed. Lossless files streamed to an SB sound worlds better than cable radio, internet radio and even satellite radio. 
Better sound with cable box or Squeezebox Duet?
I compared a Comcast cable box playing digital cable radio to an IPod Nano playing 128kps through an DLO dock using in ceiling speakers in a clients home and the IPod blew way the Comcast box. In another clients home, I compared a Sonos ZP100 scre... 
Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi
Please, a better description of the room. The room is the most important part of any system. Unfortunately, itÂ’s also the most ignored. If the room is not properly tuned, and the system is not properly setup, you can put a $200,000 system in it an... 
Any experienced Projector users?
Most budget projectors are in the 1000-1100 ansi lumens range which means they really need to be in a dark room. Turning on a lamp or accent lighting will kill the picture. If you want to have accent lighting, then you need to be looking at projec... 
what kind of audiophile are you ?
Mostly 2&3 but I like to look at audio jewelry(1). 
PC based system, questions and clarifications...
Steve,?I don't have any problems with my SB. Recently I had it playing for 6 weeks straight while burning in a new pair of Martin Logan Vantages. It never skipped a beat, though my electric bill was about $100 more than usual.