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| Some basic computer audio questions I have a late 2015 iMac and the headphone jack doubles as a mini-optical digital output. Not sure but I would guess it's the same for your Mac since I think all iMacs had that feature during that time period. For analog output you use a stereo-min... | |
| What Have I Bought? discnik, I have an Advent 300 that I got in a trade from a friend and it's now in the house of another friend driving a pair of Minimus 7s. She loves it and I really like seeing it having a second life. | |
| What was in your first "real" higher end audio system? 1966 -- Dynaco SCA-35 kitAR turntableAR speakers - small, but don't remember the model number | |
| Giving up on Itunes! Alternatives? I want to run my hardrive with a dedicated tablet. The OP is right about iTunes/Apple Music's disorganization. Everything looks organized within iTunes itself but if you look at the folder structure in iTunes Media within the Music folder at the Finder level you'll see that the original album stru... | |
| Total streaming noob question As djones51 mentioned, on your Macbook go to System Preferences under the Apple icon at the top left of the menu bar. Click on 'Sound' and choose 'Digital Out' if it's not already chosen. | |
| Receiver working as pre-amp, TURNS OFF, whenever Second Zone/Speaker B goes loud I sold to a friend a pair of 4 ohm Monitor Audio speakers which had worked well in my house with a McCormack amp and a fairly longer cable run. But in his house with an inexpensive receiver and a very long speaker cable run the receiver would shut... | |
| J River Music Software for Mac I didn't hear any difference with the switch to Music from iTunes with a similar setup in one system, iMac/WiFi/Airport Express. The optical output from the Airport Express and Apple TV suffers from a lot of jitter, timing errors in the digital si... | |
| Great country recording I'm a big Buddy Miller fan, first encountered him when he was, supposedly, the opening act for Emmylou Harris at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. But the show was really the Buddy and Julie Miller show with Emmylou Harris. One of my all time favorite per... | |
| Your "Best of..." audio manufacturer in each state In Texas, Raven Audio. The Blackhawk LE is easily the best amp of the many I've owned over the last 50 years and the support by owner Dave Thomson is the best I've encountered, as well. | |
| Audio Repair Texas I'm in Austin and have had two nearby shops recommended for tube and/or vintage repair, one in Austin and one in Taylor, just north of Austin. Reclaimed Audio does the upgrade and repair work for Raven Audio, which is a good sign. Haven't used eit... | |
| Great country recording Allison Krauss is always a good bet and her later albums like "So Long So Wrong" are extremely well recorded with very well done arrangements. Agree with the recommendation of Dwight Yoakum, he manages to combine the core of country music's appeal... | |
| Wirelessly Connecting an iMac with TIDAL and Audirvana (flac files) to a DAC This probably isn't a solution unless you could find a used one, since it was recently discontinued, but I stream from an iMac in my office to an Arcam rPlay in my living room and connect the coax out to my Bel Canto DAC 3. Works flawlessly and so... | |
| Best DAC for my system? I'll second the recommendation of the Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital. I have one in my office and think it's exceptional for the $399 price. I've compared it to the Bel Canto DAC 3 in my main system and it's close. It's also a very good preamp and he... | |
| Streaming Music through my home stereo Yes, Apple Music is compressed, just like Spotify and Pandora. The advantage of any of those services is lower cost and sometimes greater convenience compared to higher fidelity options, considerations of the different music catalogs aside. | |
| Streaming Music through my home stereo BluOS would certainly be a good choice for most music services but since Apple doesn't yet provide an API that would allow access by Blu it isn't an answer for someone who wants to use Apple Music. There are definitely other excellent choices of m... |