rsbeck
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| state of the art home theatre.... If you're looking for WAF, Wives generally prefer in-wall speakers -- they hate speakers intruding into the room. You can hide a sub-woofer behind a couch or under an end table. They also freak when they see a stack of components and more than one... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Why do you want to convert to PCM before your DAC? | |
| If Thiel, Wilson, Sonus, made active speakers????? Some players are already "together." Levinson and Revel are "together" under the Madrigal/Harmon unbrella. Paradigm and Anthem are "together" -- I forget the name of the umbrella company. The problem is -- when someone designs an amplifier, they m... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Oops -- forget that one -- didn't notice that it is the opposite of what I thought. It is for sending digital input INTO your computer using the USB port. Sorry 'bout that. That's what I get for posting before I've had coffee! | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Here is something that will take a USB input from your computer and convert it to toslink or SPDiF without performing DA conversion for $79 ----http://www.computersandmusic.com/xcgi/SoftCart.exe/store1/edirol/ua1a.html?L+mystore1+urub1816+1088598294 | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Yes, I'm using the Mini-Dac as a DAC. I'm running USB from the Mac G4 laptop to the Apogee, then balanced XLR interconnects to a pair of Mackie HR824's --- I'm pretty astounded at the quality. I don't know that you need to convert the digital sign... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM I use an Apogee USB Mini-Dac with my Mac G4 laptop -- sounds really good for casual listening, using the laptop as a juke box. I rip my CD's to the hard drive uncompressed using AIFF. I had an M-Audio Audiophile USB Dac prior to the Apogee -- the ... | |
| If Thiel, Wilson, Sonus, made active speakers????? I have a pair of active speakers I just bought for fun. Mackie HR824's. They are bi-amped. They sound great. When the manufactuer knows what speakers the amps will be powering, it gives them a nice advantage. Intsead of having to design the amp fo... | |
| Anyone using an Apogee Mini-Dac? Finally broke down and bought the Apogee USB Mini-Dac. Sounds waaaay better than the M-Audio USB Audiophile. Huge improvement. Full, rich, detailed, deep wide sound stage -- all the good stuff -- and allows me to use the computer and hard drive as... | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Update -- Bought an Apogee USB Mini-Dac. This is waaaay better than the M-Audio Audiophile! The M-Audio introduced time smear. Apogee has a better clock solution, smear is gone, full, rich, detailed sound, deep wide holographic sound stage -- I've... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder I stand corrected on Dr.Hook. Forgot about that sappy cover of "Only Sixteen." | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder IMO, making the top ONE HUNDRED doesn't make a song a HIT. Some of these bands may have had other songs that were enjoyable, may have even gotten a little airplay, but that doesn't make the other songs HITS. | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Update --- I connected the M-Audio USB Audiophile to my Mac G4 and then used the SPDiF output to feed the signal in digital to a Proceed AVP2, using the DAC is the Proceed -- this sounds way better. For a comparison, it beats the hell out of a $40... | |
| $600 budget, upgrage amp, cd or speakers? HELP First, I would suggest ripping your CD's to your computer's hard drive and using your computer as a transport -- I bet it would beat the sound of your current CD/DVD player. Next, the easiest upgrade is to rip your music to the hard drive uncompre... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Cover of the Rolling Stone -- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show |