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| Budget DAC vs Budget CD Player? Option 1 obviously gives you a more flexible upgrade path and the Audioengine D1 is a very nice DAC for the money, It has the advantage over a lot of inexpensive DACs of having an optical input, handy if you're going to be using a Mac as a source.... | |
| How to pack speakers w/out original boxes? Being fairly paranoid about shipping, when I sold an amplifier to someone in Thailand. I double boxed it with foam between the boxes but went beyond that and used construction adhesive to bond 1/8" plywood inside each of the four surfaces of the o... | |
| "best" 3.5mm to RCA cable The Blue Jeans BJC MSA-1 is a really nice cable that can be made in any length you want and comes with a 30 return policy. Looks as if a 2M cable would cost around $35. | |
| Mellencamp vs. Seger vs. Springsteen An interesting group. Always liked Seger but listened to him mostly on road trips, his didn't seem like music you played inside the house.I didn't pay too much attention to Mellencamp all along but his 2008 'Life, Death, Love and Freedom', is an a... | |
| Recommendation: great floorstander & amp $3K ea I own two of the integrated brands you're considering, a Cary SLI-80 F1 and a Simaudio Moon I-5 LE. I'm completely happy with both, I haven't been tempted by anything else in a long time and that's a testament to how much I like them since I've ow... | |
| Highest resolution for steaming radio on I-Phone The streaming rate for the MOG app for the iPhone is selectable at either 128kbps or 320kbps. The downside is that, unlike their desktop streaming application, the mobile app requires using the login system of Facebook, meaning you need a Facebook... | |
| Bungee Cords Under the theory that if it cost more it must sound better I'd recommend an upgrade to Rok Straps.They are a great product, I use them for motorcycle touring and they have the advantage of being flat so that they don't roll like round bungees. | |
| Need a cdp Unless you really want a one-box replacement for the dying CDP a reasonable approach might be to buy a good DAC in the $300 range and the best CDP or DVD player you can find for $200 to use as a transport.There are some remarkably good mid-priced ... | |
| what Fi? Your ears... | |
| iMac no longer reading/playing CDs Puerto - that does seem like a reasonable price for replacing a disc drive and the replacement of it shouldn't put your music library at risk since those files are on your hard drive. And you have your music library and all your other files backed... | |
| Are there any audiophile quality streaming options Onemug - p.s. - you might want to try MOG through the regular desktop application trial period before committing to an additional $5 a month for the iPad content. I like MOG a lot, obviously, but it might not suit everyone. | |
| Are there any audiophile quality streaming options Onemug - I think the confusion about the cost is that while the app is free to download from the Apple Store, a subscription to stream and download to the iPad adds $5 a month to your paid Mog subscription.I don't know the answer about the streami... | |
| iMac no longer reading/playing CDs The drives in iMacs, Macbooks and most laptops from other manufacturers are designed for small size, not durability. It can be replaced but as Tan43 suggests, a better, cheaper alternative is to get an external drive, especially with an iMac where... | |
| Are there any audiophile quality streaming options Onemug - The listening experience with Pandora compared to Mog is quite different and which you prefer will probably depend on what you want from a streaming service.With MOG you're almost completely in control of what you listen to and in what or... | |
| Are there any audiophile quality streaming options If you're asking if there are streaming sites that offer quality equal to CD, I'm not aware of any. Both MOG and Spotify Premium stream at 320 kbps, which isn't as high resolution as the bit rate of a CD at 1,411 kbps, but I find MOG streamed thro... |