rhanson739
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| Please help with Spectron Musician Issue. Looks like it's time for me to update my own thread!After receiving my amp back from Spectron, I continued to have some problems. Time to throw in the towel, I thought. The people at Spectron and I worked out an arrangement, and as a result, I'm n... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Thanks, Al, I'll look into that further.Never knew you could do that! It sounds like a fine Plan B. | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Tbg --I know what you mean. Just last night our cable service went out for an extended period. No phone; no internet; no TV. (It was bliss, in a way.)Thing is, I was using WiFi to run my headless Mac Mini, so no tunes, either! Plus, I have a drive... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... I've now finished ripping the majority of my collection -- the good stuff -- to disc.I now know what David12 said about how ripping 20-30 discs a day gives life some meaning. ;) What do I do with all my free time, now?Oh, sure... I could actually ... | |
| Novice needs Mac Mini and DAC advice Moonshot --Any chance you worked for a large computer vendor in the 80s? I know a guy who got that handle while walking the AT.I recently went the same route as you have and couldn't be happier over getting away from CDs.Consider the PS Audio Perf... | |
| Buying Fewer CD's & LP's Because of Pandora? Based on one of the responses above, I've been listening to Mog. Although I haven't had a good listen, the sound quality is much better than Pandora, at least for 'around the house' listening.I'm glad I was introduced to Mog. | |
| Buying Fewer CD's & LP's Because of Pandora? Not for me... I'm actually buying *more* CDs than before listening to Pandora.Pandora serves up artists I've never heard before. If I like them well enough, I buy a copy for closer listening. | |
| AIFF or FLAC? ~I believe the only caveat to using Pure Music in front of iTunes to play FLAC files is that once you load the FLACs into iTunes via Pure Music, you mustn't move the folder location.It seems there are more benefits to using Pure Music in front of ... | |
| AIFF or FLAC? ~Based on my limited understanding of things, I've chosen to rip my collection to AIFF. I'm Mac-based, and AIFF could easily be converted back to another format if required.FLAC needs to be decoded/decompressed along the way, a potential source of... | |
| Using the PerfectWave DAC MK II ~Stickman451,Well, kinda. I don't have any iOS devices in the house, and I'm not likely to ever get one. (I sometimes feel like the last of a dying breed.)The Mac Mini runs "headless", and I control it either at my desk with an iMac 27, or, sittin... | |
| Using the PerfectWave DAC MK II I'm late responding to this thread, but I recently picked up a PWD MK II, and I'm loving it.I had been using an Opus 21 CDP/DAC, sometimes playing from the computer via a HagUSB into the 96 input on the Opus. Now I'm wondering if I'll ever go back... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Crazy? No. Careful? Yes.That's a good thing to keep in mind about RAID-... As long as all your data is in one physical location -- even on different disks -- you're still at risk. | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Thanks, Al. Seems that there are some significant differences between Windows and Mac... but we knew that. ;) | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Kinanki --A controller failure? Where's that point, in the PC/Mac itself, or in the drive(s)? And are you referring to a single RAID-1 drive, or my solution of two separate and distinct drives?If the 'controller' is in the drives, then two physica... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Should have mentioned in case anyone's interested:The quiet drive mentioned above is an OWC Mercury Elite-Al Pro, available from macsales.com. It's about the quietest drive I've ever heard.Carbon Copy Cloner is a great program that allows you to c... |