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| Replacing Totems One's a nice amp for the totem model 1 would be a ma6900 integrated. this would be a sweet setup. i had the model 1's with the ma6500 integrated and that was before the ma6900 was out. you could go with the ma6500, but i would recommend a rel strata III... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2 vs Revel Salon2--fair comparison? Both very good speakers. the new salon 2's i think are a better than the watt puppy 8's, which are better than the new sophia's. the studio 2's are also very good and those would save you some money and 1 heck of a speaker. IMO! | |
| Replacing Totems One's i have had many pairs of totem speakers (model 1's, arros, inwall, and now have multiple pairs of mani 2's and none of them have been forward sounding. It might be caused by your amp/preamp, cables, front end, etc... i have driven the totems with ... | |
| PC vs MAC laptop as music server Smoffatt - how do you like your ARC dac7? i heard it at rmaf and it sounded nice. have you compared coax vs usb to see if there is any difference in the quality? | |
| PC vs MAC laptop as music server tok20000 - you have xld and max for the mac. they are excellent rippers. as for toslink, i like using coax when going from a quality cd player in to a dac. as for a music server, i isolate the computer from the audio room (from any room that is se... | |
| PC vs MAC laptop as music server tok2000 - if you want better error correction for ripping cds on a mac use xld or others. you are biased toward pc's, its obvious. but if you don't now how a mac works or how the GUI performs, then you shouldn't say anything about the mac. Microso... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? there is a lot of talk about clocking and re-clocking. in a normal transport/computer to dac connection, there is no clocking or re-clocking. except if you own certain esoteric or dcs components. to do clocking, these devices would have to work on... | |
| PC vs MAC laptop as music server mac! i would recommend using an older mac mini with a raid disk subsystem to hold your files with a separate disk for backups. all you need is an older g4 with 2 gb ram. i use a new imac and used an intel mac mini before this. you can go to frys a... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? in my auditioning, i listened to older dacs and the newer dacs, and the ones in my price range (< $5k), i preferred the older dacs. i have or have had audio research, manley, classe, cal audio, audio alchemy, and the adcom 600 & 700 dacs in... | |
| iMac to DAC via 3.5 mini-phono jack/RCA IC? restock - i agree with you. each time i hooked up either a computer or the AE to an external dac, it was ok, not great. but when i inserted a jitter device in the middle, and started to use a better decoder on itunes, both together, made a huge di... | |
| selling primare cd31, new cdp recommendations? go with a music server. but do it right with the quality cables, jitter devices, external dacs, and an iphone or ipod touch to control it | |
| iMac to DAC via 3.5 mini-phono jack/RCA IC? i had the same opinion about the benchmark dac. stereophile loves it because they probably get $$$$$ for advertisements. there are many other dacs out there that are much better. i liked my old cal audio sigma II tube dac better and that was $200.... | |
| iMac to DAC via 3.5 mini-phono jack/RCA IC? restock - the output on the mac can be for analog or digital. if you buy the cheap mini-to-rca cable from monster, you will get analog. if you get a quality toslink cable and buy the mini adapter for it, you will then have a digital cable. what ha... | |
| iMac to DAC via 3.5 mini-phono jack/RCA IC? do yourself a favor and get a jitter remover device and hook this up wih a good toslink cable with the mini adapter (sold at fry's for $2) from your imac. then use the best coax digital cable you can afford to hook this jitter device to your exter... | |
| Speakers for Mac 501's ? i took my totem mani 2's down to my local macintosh dealer and hooked them up to the 501's and the 1000 watt mono's. both setups were fantastic. |