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| electrical short 1 channel. Cable spade at fault? Good advice from Onemug, if it's the amp your best hope is that there is a fuse in the circuit that protected the amp. I had an Audio Refinement Complete integrated, the predecessor of the YBA 201, I think, and blew out the right channel when a pa... | |
| Prima Luna Prolog 1 and ipod For the best sound quality you'd want to bypass the DAC and amplifier inside the iPod by connecting it to one of the external docks that pick up the digital information directly from the drive in the iPod. Then you're getting the music at the reso... | |
| How do I stream radio to my system? If your streaming needs get more complicated than just using iTunes to stream to a single Airport Express there's a really good application called Airfoil that will stream from any application, including your browser, to a large range of devices. ... | |
| Source for tube shopping? Here's a link to Jim McShane's site. The tube listing page is a bit daunting but sending him a message at jimmcshane@prodigy.net is your best bet. | |
| Wireless to my audio system ? Family - when you say you have Air Port on you iMac are you referring to the Airport software that is installed on all Macs or do you mean you have an Airport Express wireless access point, which is an external device to which you stream data? And... | |
| Source for tube shopping? I've had very good experience with Jim McShane, fully tested tubes, excellent advice and excellent service. | |
| Wireless to my audio system ? Another common way to do it is to stream to an Apple Airport Express then connect the mini-Toslink digital output from the AE to the optical input of an external DAC. Even a used 802.11g previous-generation AE is plenty fast enough and can easily ... | |
| Music Servers-Why so few? As Glenfihi says, the ease of putting together a music server system using a PC or Mac, off-the-shelf hard drives, relatively inexpensive playback software and a DAC means that purpose-built servers have a hard time competing on price and inevitab... | |
| Converting cables to ICs I don't have any experience with using S-Video cables as the basis for interconnects but I'm not sure it would be worth the trouble when you can buy really high-quality cable from Mogami and Canare in bulk from places like markertek.com and takefi... | |
| Converting cables to ICs A practical issue with doing the conversion would be finding connectors that would accept the typical gauge of speaker wire. Soldering RCAs onto the smaller wire designed for interconnects can be challenging enough given the size of the connector ... | |
| Which sub 200 usd DAC if using an integrated amp? I'm not familiar with the Audioengine D1 other than reading about it on their site and it's not clear there whether the volume control is just for the headphone amp or affects the RCA outputs, as well. I'm sure a question to their support staff wo... | |
| What makes a bigger change, dac or preamp? As Cymbop said, a combination DAC and preamp is an option and there are quite a few of them now in all price ranges. A couple I'm familiar with that work well are the Beresford TC-7520 and the Aune X1. What you don't get in that price range is rem... | |
| Cary SLI-80 Thoughts? I can't advise about that particular amp but I can highly recommend Cary's customer service. | |
| Onkyo A-9555 amp + Totem Model 1 Agree about the A-9555, it's an amazing amp for the money. | |
| Budget Cables for Budget setup - pls advise I agree with Deanz in the recommendation of Blue Jeans Cables all around. A cheaper option for the speaker cables which would be fine for your gear is Canare 4s8 cable from markertek.com using bare wire connections at both ends. |