rsbeck
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| Best headphones you've ever heard/used Well, you could always buy a 10 foot extension cord. 10 feet of extension cord is likely to cause far less degradation than going wireless. I would rather have one great set of headphones or earphones than to split your purchase over two pieces ju... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used Bose -- $299Shure E3 -- $179Sennheiser 280 Pro -- $100Cannot help with wireless headphones. I've tried a few and have never found anything satisfactory. That was a number of years ago, so maybe the technology has improved since then. | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used I also travel a lot. I've tried a few things. Shure E3's sound great and cost $179. I also have a pair of Sennheiser HD580's. They sound terrific, but they are "open" which means they are worthless on a plane because they let too much noise in. Al... | |
| Funniest sales pitch What's a good reason to sell? I've bought way more stuff than I can use while trying to find synergy in my system. I'd like to sell some of the stuff that didn't stay in my system and all of it is nice gear with rabid fans -- it would be great in ... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM >>trust me...it works!!!!<<I trust you. Most of what we do in an effort to get better sound could be considered extreme and weird. Who am I to judge? | |
| USB DA recommendation needed For DD and DTS, I believe you'll need a different type of sound card. You can connect a Mac G4 powerbook to some types of displays and watch DVD's and you can play the sound through the Apogee DAC in two-channel, but for multi-channel, DD, DTS, et... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM That's an interesting path to say the least. I count three jitter/clock solutions, a pre-amp, a USB to SPDiF converter, and an upsampler, before another upsampler and DAC. You sure you need all of that? | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Did you ever get your computer connected to your dCS DAC? | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Looking forward to your report. | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Yes, the Apogee, like the M-Audio, has an SPDiF out. I tried using the SPDiF out on the M-Audio, plugging it into a digital input on my Proceed AVP2 and it did not sound good, which is surprising since the Proceed has very good DAC's and usually m... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Eric -- thanks for the info. Maybe it is even worse -- maybe the M-Audio converted the signal from digital to analogue and back to digital. Whatever it was, the Apogee sounds way better, but I know the Proceed has good DAC's, so I am pretty certai... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM The Waveterminal piece is interesting. It offers sample rate conversion. Maybe this is what is needed to take the signal from the computer to a home audio DAC and maybe that is what was missing from the M-Audio piece. Like Harry, I am no computer ... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Here's the Edirol piece to which Ed is referring. This is the reverse of the piece I posted before, which means it is what I thought the other piece was. It will take a USB connection from your computer and convert it to SPDiF or Toslink, keeping ... | |
| state of the art home theatre.... Also --- the remote controll you have to get them is Universal Remote's Home Theater Master MX-500. It is a Universal remote -- the best I have ever seen and it is $100. You can program every remote into it and you can set it to mix and match func... | |
| state of the art home theatre.... Over on AVScience forum, everyone seems to have Panasonic plasma displays and Pioneer 49TXi or 59TXi or Denon receivers. Audiogon and AVS are two completely different sub-cultures. There are quite a few over there who refuse to believe separates a... |