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| Recommended DAC with Simaudio i-5 I had exactly that setup for quite awhile, a Mac streaming Apple Lossless files to an Airport Express, then a glass optical cable to a Benchmark DAC-1 and an I-5. I was very happy with it. It was very open and dynamic and both pieces of gear were ... | |
| budget DACs The Taiwanese-built Valab DAC is pretty remarkable for its $200 price. It's very small and gives you the options of coax, toslink and USB input. I use one in my office driven via USB from a MacBook Pro but it sounds amazingly good in my main syste... | |
| Speakercbl runs through my doorway and too thick It's hard to tell from the picture exactly what the diameter of the cables is but maybe something like this aluminum door threshold would work? Looks as if there is an inch of space underneath. | |
| How about an accordion thread? A recording that meets your criterion for incorporating the accordion in a way that makes it hard to imagine the music without that instrument is Anouar Brahem's "Le Pas du Chat Noir." The combination of oud, piano and accordion is completely seam... | |
| How about an accordion thread? This is a bit tangential but the Annie Proulx book "Accordion Crimes" is an amazing tale that traces the history of an accordion brought to America by a Sicilian in the late nineteenth century. As it passes through generations and families, includ... | |
| Where to start in building a beginner's system? You might want to have a look at Peachtree Audio's amp and DAC combinations. They're designed assuming that you'll be using a digital source like an iPod or music server, or both. I haven't heard the new Nova but I own the Decco and am really happ... | |
| Speaker connections: Spade vs. Banana Plus There are some high-quality adapters like these from Audioquest but I don't know whether you'd hear any difference between them and the Radio Shack versions. I own a set of similar ones from Cardas that are solid copper and work well as long as th... | |
| Who could fix a driver on a Mission 781monitor This is from the Mission UK site's FAQ:"Mission endeavours to carry a comprehensive range of replacement parts for many years covering both current and discontinued models. Typically, these will include spares items such as tweeters, woofers, gril... | |
| Mac Mini Questions Please explain a little more fully your question about disabling the wireless function in the Mini and using an external 'card.' Are you planning to use an external wireless router or access point? If it's an external wireless router with ethernet... | |
| AES 6 pacs Speaker choice? I don't have any experience with the Six-Pac but I'm using an AES Superamp and AES-DJH preamp with a pair of Devore Gibbon 8's and it's a wonderful combination. The Devores are so incredibly musical, with such clean, articulate bass that they seem... | |
| MP3 files to Apple lossless It's probably easier to sort out if you think about only those CDs you really listen to a lot and that you know are well recorded. Do a few of those and don't worry too much about the whole 11,000 tunes for now. | |
| MP3 files to Apple lossless However, before you start all over, it would be worth re-ripping a couple of CD's and seeing if the difference between lossless files and the mp3's, especially those at 320 kbps, is worth the trouble. | |
| MP3 files to Apple lossless As you seem to suspect, there's no advantage to converting them to Apple Lossless. The data that was lost when the files were ripped to mp3 can't be recovered. You'll have files that take up much more space but sound the same. | |
| Emmylou Harris - All I Intended to be - Love this Her 'Duets' album has some absolutely wonderful pairings, Emmylou with Roy Orbison, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Neil Young (and a couple of really unfortunate ones.) It really shows off her ability to make any singer and any song be... | |
| Anyone familiar w brining speakers in from Canada Whether you'll need to pay duty depends on where the speakers were made. If they're of U.S. or Canadian manufacture the NAFTA agreement means you won't need to pay an import duty. If they're European, or from any country outside the territory NAFT... |