seditious3
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| My email with Oppo re: BDP-83SE as usb/PC dac Well, looks like a separate firewire DAC at some point. | |
| Harbeth Compact 7-ES3 Speakers bet = get | |
| Harbeth Compact 7-ES3 Speakers Q: What happens when you play a Country and Western record backwards?A: You bet back your wife, your dog, and your pickup. | |
| Would an amp or preamp have a larger SQ increase? Well, I'm not much of an Adcom fan - you can do better for the money.Do you listen to cd exclusively. Turntable? Radio? What cd player do you have now?Is your $700 budget for both an amp and a preamp or for each piece? | |
| Would an amp or preamp have a larger SQ increase? I am not an Adcom fan, but I'm less of a Carver fan. I'd upgrade the preamp. It has much more of an effect on the sound than the amp.If you listen to CD only, you can get a cd player with a volume control to go directly to the amp. That would be t... | |
| How will my non symmetric room affect sound? You're fine | |
| My email with Oppo re: BDP-83SE as usb/PC dac Grisham, I would think (I may be wrong) that adding usb or firewire computer support for lossless audio would be among the easiest things to do. And many of the codecs are free. It even has the usb jack."Plenty of disappointment" may be an oversta... | |
| How much budget for bass? I agree with what's been said here, except I think the price tag for good bass in full-range speakers starts at about $3000, closer to $5000 (new).Again, it all depends on your budget, and if you're buying new or used. Anything under $800 used, I'... | |
| subwoofer question I also prefer a highly damped, or "tight" subwoofer, which also applies to woofers in main speakers.IMO, I think the tradeoff is that ported subs/woofers may have a real or perceived lower depth and/or higher loudness than non-ported models (all o... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes And 1 cd = about 500 megabytes uncompressed (wav), so 1000 is about 250 gig in wav, 125 gig in flac. Of course, it depends on the length of the individual cd.I archive in flac. Or you could use windows media lossless or apple lossless, about the s... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes FLAC (lossless compressed) is about half the size of wav (lossless uncompressed). | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes You can determine the offset via a database of cd/dvd drives (via accuraterip website), or by using a known cd in accordance with EAC/dbpoweramp instructions. As to why, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/support/faq/offset-questions/http:/... | |
| Let's say I'm looking for an a/v stand I have an Ikea stand and love it. | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes I prefer dbpoweramp over EAC. AFAIK, they're the only two to use accuraterip. I find EACs interface easier. Make sure you use the correct offset for your drive. | |
| New spreakers sound great But 52tiger, did you read anything anyone posted? |