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| Upgrade my CD player or buy a DAC? the benchmark was way too cool sounding to me, almost fatiguing. i have a music hall in second system that has an upgraded tube and i prefer that over the benchmark. the wyred 4 sound dacs are much better sounding that both these units IMO. i thou... | |
| Upgrade my CD player or buy a DAC? i would suggest to save your money until you can get the wyred 4 sound dac1 or dac2. it all depends if you want to upgrade to something much better in the future (and lose money on a cheaper purchase) or buy something top notch and grow into it wi... | |
| New to computer audio and simple question.... i have used: apple airport express, apple tv with disk, and apple tv without a disk. you can't go wrong with the apple airport express for music only. pick 1 up from crqaigslist for $50, just make sure it is 'N' capable which is the latest 802.11 ... | |
| Mini Maggie System hurts to listen to you always want to demo speakers in your environment using your equipment. i would suggest a more powerful amp. the peachtree unit is not that powerful. demo an integrated amp that has 200 watts of power: audio research, mcinstosh, classe, etc.. o... | |
| dac advice save your money and get a good dac like the wyred 4 sound dac 2. it blows the other dacs away mentioned above. if you want to get better, you will need to jump up to $5000 or more. i used to own dacs from audio research, music hall, manley, and ot... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? if you want to review for stereophile, you need to be the biggest bullshit artist that you can be, need to be able to always give a good review at the end no matter if you find flaws in it, and you need to justify the piece as being the best that ... | |
| Apple TV ethernet wired server if you don't hear any difference between an apple tv and your music server, then you need to work on your music server. some of the reasons are:* apple tv is only good for 16/44 files* you are not running pure music or amarra on the serverif you s... | |
| dac or sacd? go with the dac. if you rip music to a music server, or have a decent cd transport, a dac is necessary for very good sound.most of the very good sacd players are 2 channel, not multi-channel. plus, i used to have a multi-channel sacd player and IM... | |
| great bookshelf speakers vs 12-18 k floor speakers i second the opinion on the totem mani 2's. awesome speaker. for a room that size and depending on how much bass and loudness you are looking for, will determine if you can go with a bookshelf speaker or not. i had a room a little bigger than your... | |
| glass toslink does work i second thesoundhouse's opinion. i do the same with a wyred 4 sound dac2. | |
| HT amp for my father - advice please i have a yamaha rx-v1 that i'm selling. it's an integrated amp/preprocessor, 7.1 setup (2 enhanced front speakers), 2 zones, was there top of the line a few years ago. i actually used it with a pair of totem mani 2's which are 85db. | |
| usual speaker advice question If you want a quality speaker, go with the totem. For this size room, you will need to pair them with a good single or double sub crossed over around 80 or higher. I used to own these speakers and they are very good. If you want a killer floor sta... | |
| 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... |