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| Connect Laptop to DAC or preamp I haven't tried all the streaming sites but as far as I know MOG has the highest bit rate at 320 kbps, and Pandora Premium and Spotify are a little lower at 192 kbps. But I haven't used Pandora Premium or Spotify much since I got a MOG subscriptio... | |
| Connect Laptop to DAC or preamp If your laptop is a PC the USB output to the Aune DAC is the way to go, as Swampwalker explained.I've had a couple of the Aune DACs and they're quite good. I used them with the optical output on Mac laptops from the combined headphone/mini-Toslink... | |
| Goodtube integrated Zd542 - Dennis Had is no longer in charge of Cary but my service experience since he left has been excellent. What has been your direct experience with the company? | |
| Goodtube integrated The Cary SLI-80 is a wonderful integrated and in your price range used. | |
| dsd zip download problem Is the file you downloaded still a .zip file, without an unzipped version visible on your Mac? In other words, did your Mac not automatically unzip the file? If that's the case you can manually unzip it using Stuffit Expander. You can download a f... | |
| Classical, Spanish & South American Guitar Jewels If you want to stretch your listening a little beyond easy listening try Paco De Lucía - Siroco, and go from there. | |
| iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable Please explain why you couldn't get the i20 to work.Describe in detail all the pieces of your setup, including the cables. It's hard to give you advice about what to do next without knowing what the issue is. | |
| iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable The Apple tech gave you good information. It isn't quite true that you don't have room for any lossless files on your Nano but you won't be able to put many CDs on a drive that size. Apple Lossless files take up about half as much space as the sta... | |
| iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable Sar67- please explain what you mean by "re-uploading the iTune songs." In what format now are the songs you would be uploading? CDs, mp3, higher resolution downloads?If the songs are already in mp3 format you won't gain anything by converting them... | |
| iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable If all you want is a well-made cable you can get those from Blue Jeans Cables, Audioquest or even Monster. However, there are a couple of options to using the headphone jack you should consider if you want to get the best out of the iPod. An iPod ... | |
| Using Apple + iTunes to stream - I need help I'm not sure why you think it's Apple's fault that you chose to use a file format that is well know for not gracefully handling metadata and then had a problem with the transfer of metadata. | |
| Good USB DAC for Desktop use around $100-$250? Sorry, I don't have any experience with the Schiit DACs. They have very good reviews and I doubt you could go wrong with one but I can't make a guess about the quality relative to the Aune or the VDAC. I've been very happy with the VDAC I in an of... | |
| Good USB DAC for Desktop use around $100-$250? A used Musical Fidelity VDAC or VDAC II would be a good bet and both have the USB type B connector. At the less expensive end, the Audioengine D1 is a good value. It does have a headphone amp built in and I don't know how it would compare with you... | |
| Different amps for summer and winter? Yep, I have a Cary Sli-80 F1 for winter and a Simaudio I-5 LE for summer. Same thing in my office, a Jolida FX10 tube amp in winter and a DIY chip amp in summer. I just made the switch to the summer amps two days ago. I moved back to Austin, Texas... | |
| How much do you need to spend on a DAC to... My experience has been that almost any external DAC will be an improvement over the headphone output of a Mac. One good place to start would be with a Musical Fidelity VDAC, either the original or version 2. I use the original VDAC in my office wi... |