rbstehno
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| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? it is easy to hook up a toslink cable from a mac or an airport express device to an external dac. it is also very easy to build a whole house distributed music system or a dedicated audio setup using a mac computer. you first have to determine wha... | |
| Totem Mani-2 and Counterpoint SA-5000 Pre i use a classe 200 watt amp with my mani's. sounds very nice. 200 watts are the minimum watts i would use with the mani's. i have also hooked the mani's up to 1000 watt monoblocks and they sounded fantastic. they filled a larger room with ease. my... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? i read the reviews in TAS on music servers and the $6k and $12k music servers reviewed don't offer any more than my mac setup (except the touch screen), and my mac setup does much more and it is thousands cheaper. IMO, i haven't heard a music serv... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? speed can be an issue. if your music server is also a repository for your other computers in the house and you have multiple streaming going on, i think it could make a difference. the disk is the slowest part of the system (if you are directly co... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? for music servers, i would recommend a raid 5 setup because it is faster reading the disk. you do pay a penalty on writes, but so what if the ripping of a cd takes another few seconds or minutes. when the music is played back, i want the fast access. | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards Dbphd, in my dedicated audio room, i use all Classe gear with totem mani 2 speakers. i have my den setup using totem speakers, dk design amp, sony dvp9000es cd/sacd player, and the airport express hooked up thru my wireless network. a mac mini is ... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards another option is to go from your mac using the toslink output to an external dac. for my whole house audio (except for my dedicated audio room), i use a mac front end and airport express wireless units that use the toslink out to front end gear. ... | |
| Mac-Mini to Home Stereo Sounds Harsh it has to be your rotel unit or the cable. hook your cd player up to the pre using the toslink cable you used for the mac and see if you have the same problem. i have both a mac mini and a macbook and have not had these issues. the cable you have ... | |
| Anyone compare Classe CA-M400 vs older CAM 350s ? i have all classe equipment that is a couple years old now. i have listened to the newer classe equipment and i didn't feel that it offered anything more on the audio end but you do get the new looks and touch screens. the cam-350's are very good,... | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio & Red Dragon Audio heavystarch, you should pat yourself on the back for having one of the best sounding rooms at 1/10th of the price of some of the other rooms. when i go to these shows (ces, THE, and others) i am amazed that often times the smaller guys (totem, aco... | |
| Small Floor Stander or Monitor For Large Room i also have a medium to large size dedicated room and have had different pairs of totem speakers during the past 5 years. if you want to play your system at loud levels, you should look at the mani 2's if you want a monitor speaker and the hawk or... | |
| Kef vs Thiel kef. i have a pair of kef reference 2 in my rec room and i preferred these to the thiels that i auditioned. kef's are a warmer speaker whereas the thiel were more on the cool side, less midrange and bottom end. if you are looking for speakers, i w... | |
| experience with Threshold SA/2e or S/500 amps? Thanks to all of you for your replies. i was in a bind and i wanted to get opinions on how these amps sounded. i was in the middle of purchasing a preamp and i didn't have any means to demo the threshold amps so i wanted to turn to all of you for ... | |
| Totem Wind i have had the arros, model 1's, inwall taw 6.5's, and now i have all mani 2's. i was thinking going the route of the winds from the mani's and after i heard the winds, i am keeping my mani's. the winds are very nice, but the mani's are just more ... | |
| Primer on Music Servers? there are quite a few music servers out in the market right now. they can come from macs/pcs, mcintosh, and other audio manufacturers. there has been more talk recently on how manufactures are providing this. for the past couple of years, i have h... |