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| Is sooloos worth the money? sooloos is an overpriced device. i have heard it, played with it, and unless you hook it up to a very good dac (no different than a pc or mac in this regard), it sounds like .....also, the upgrade charges for an additional disk, etc... are out of ... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server ssd is way overkill for a music server. right now, i'm using Pure Music and i have it setup to read the song into memory and then it plays the song from ddr. you can see the light go on for a couple of seconds then the song starts then the disk li... | |
| iMac Combo Headphone/Optical Out Port Cable there are quite a few cables out there that you can use. depending on quality, you can get them from apple, monster, and ixos. the mini adapter can be purchased from fry's, radio shack, echo audio, and others. i purchased a few from fry's for $2.9... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server if you have your mac go to sleep after a while, make sure you set "wake for network access" under system preferences/energy saver. because i use screen sharing from my imac to the mac mini, i also use the WakeOnLan program that points to all the i... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server if you are setting up a music server, you will need 2 large drives. i have 2 external 2TB disks linked to my mac mini using firewire. also, when you rip cd's to this server, you need to use xld or max, much better than itunes. why 2 drives? becaus... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server you don't need a monitor for the mini. mine is headless and i use my ipad or iphone to vnc into it or i use screen sharing from my other macs to install or do maintenance on it like updating Pure Music. | |
| Wyred DAC-2 I would like to get the info also.Thanks | |
| Bryston BDA-1 used V/S Wyred 4 Sound DAC 2 the usb dac's that you talk about aren't the asynchronous type nor are they the 192/24 type either. there is a big difference in these dac's nd the wyred for sound dac2. i thought all of the prior usb dacs that i have demoed (except the ayre) suck... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini all the ssd devices that are in mac's and pc's are of the cheap kind. sure they are faster than mechanical disks, but again, they are very cheap. for a mac mini, i would use a hdd which i do. i am involved in this technology for a living and the n... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini I don't agree with tvad. I think the future is now using a music server using a very good dac.Before I would buy an ssd for the Mac, I would put in the maximum amount of memory in the mini then set pure music to use memory for playback.I also agre... | |
| iPad Alternative there is no competition to the ipad 1 let alone the ipad 2. the galaxy and xoom are all 2nd best at best. the galaxy is far far away from the ipad 1. if you compare who has the most remote apps for the tablets, the ipad is the most well received b... | |
| MAC MINI as Music Server? i always put mine to sleep when not in use. you can go into energy save and click the box to turn on wake on network access. when i start remote on my ipad or iphone to connect to the mac mini, you can see all the hard drives light up and it only ... | |
| MUSIC SERVER - HOW DO YOU............ Mac mini running pure music connected to a good external dac thru asynchronous USB or toslink will be as good as any standalone cd player, depending on the quality of dac you use.If you want to go nas, get an apple extreme router and hook up a 2 T... | |
| Bryston BDA-1 used V/S Wyred 4 Sound DAC 2 Why limit yourself to just these? I demo'd many dacs (ayre, bryston, audio research, bel canto, music hall) and the best 1 I liked was the ayre out of this bunch. Then I purchased the w4s dac2 with the 30 day trial period and never sent it back. I... | |
| Yet another Mac music Question another option is to get a newer dac with 24/192 asynchronous usb connection. i use a wyred 4 sound dac2 with their device driver to support. you can also use the toslink from the mac but you are limited to 24/96 using this connection. (maybe the ... |