rsbeck
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| USB DA recommendation needed Don't know what I did, but I tried it again tonight and it is working beautifully.Wow -- having a DAC outside the computer makes a really nice difference.Increased dynamics, air, detail, musicality -- the works. Now, if it sounds THIS good with th... | |
| compact bookshelf speaker for my system I would also suggest there's little need for a center channel in your arrangement. I would suggest going with two channel plus a sub-woofer. | |
| USB DA recommendation needed I'm having a similar problem with my M-Audio USB Audiophile DAC. It either crashes my computer and I have to reboot, or else it causes a condition where none of my other programs will open. I'm a tad frustrated. You said yours sounds great -- I ha... | |
| compact bookshelf speaker for my system Haven't heard the others, but IMO, you can't go wrong with Monitor Audio --they almost always beat anything else in their price range and they're efficent so they're easy to drive. If you can stretch a little more more the GR 10's, you'll even hap... | |
| beware ipod IMO, the ideal situation is to manage all of one's music files on an external hard drive. These days, you can get a lot of storage for relatively little $$. This way, you don't take up your computer's hard drive with music files. Then, you circula... | |
| Best of your best - Your Top 25 When your psrents name you Ichabod, you know things aren't going to turn out well. | |
| USB DA recommendation needed My M-Audio USB Audiophile came with a driver that had to be installed before the computer would recognize it. | |
| Linn majik good or not? If you're set on an integrated amp -- the Jolida hybrid would be a great choice. You can usually find them used here on A'Gon. If you're going for passive monitors, I would suggest the Sonus Fabers. | |
| USB DA recommendation needed After reading up on the Apogee Mini-Dac, I am all but sold. It is expensive, but it sounds like the real deal for turning one's computer into a digital transport with a digital output via USB and converting the digital into high quality analogue. ... | |
| Best of your best - Your Top 25 I used to live in San Jose. San Jose has more than perfect weather. But, you have to think outside the box, so to speak. In other words, it isn't San Jose so much as all the places you can get to in just a short drive. So, with that in mind, even ... | |
| Linn majik good or not? Since you already have the computer, you can rip your CD's to the hard drive uncompressed and use it as a high quality Juke Box. On another thread, you were asking about sound cards. I would check out the Apogee Mini-DAC. It is expensive, but sinc... | |
| USB DA recommendation needed You've got me a little worried. I have a 1.25 GHz G4 Powerbook and just got the M-Audio USB Audiophile. Hope it doesn't crash my computer. What do you mean when you say, "crash." You mean, like, have to re-boot, or do you mean, like, have to take ... | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Here's another one -- quite expensive:http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/minidac.php | |
| USB DA recommendation needed Check this out:http://www.audiomidi.com/common/cfm/product.cfm?pid=386 | |
| Speakers for extremely close listening I would suggest getting speakers that are often used for "nearfield" listening. I'm talking about recording studio monitors. I've been in several recording studios with great sounding monitors and I noticed what they had in common. They were using... |