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| Who's your guitar daddy now? Completely different genre from anyone mentioned so far, and maybe not to everyone's taste, but for both technical virtuosity and emotionality it's hard to beat Paco De Lucía. His album 'Siroco' is a great place to start. | |
| Looking for info on headphones It's likely true that a dedicated headphone amp is going to sound better than the amp built into an integrated amp, at least if you spend a reasonable amount of money. I had a very nice Headroom amp with the Sennheiser 600's for awhile and it soun... | |
| Looking for info on headphones Cruz123 - Nah, not any creepier than kissing girls I really didn't know all that well. | |
| Looking for info on headphones I have a pair of Sennheiser 600's that I use as you're describing, occasionally plugged into the headphone jack of an integrated amp. A used pair would be in your price range. They come with a 1/8" jack and a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter. | |
| Entry Level Cables To extend Audiofeil's point about explicit disclosure, it's in your best interest to be meticulous about pointing out your potential financial interest in a comment, whether as a dealer or a seller of something listed on the site. It's one of the ... | |
| Thoughts on the best bang for the buck The reason the Wadia-transport exists is to be able to bypass the internal amplifier and digital to analog converter in the iPod. When you're playing from the hard drive of your laptop and sending the signal either from USB or from a digital outpu... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Blindjim - I got this Lacie drive for $99 when they had a special. The regular price is $119 but this vendor and almost all the other sites are constantly offering daily or weekly specials.The sites I've found best to deal with are:http://newegg.c... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Jax2 - I said "CD's AND spinning magnetic disks," not, "CD's AS spinning magnetic disks." Yes, I understand the difference between optical discs and magnetic disks (notice the difference in spelling between "discs" and "disks"), my point was that ... | |
| Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus Jamesw20 - you're right to be paranoid about your hard drive failing, it eventually will, but the best strategy for dealing with that is to have a backup of your hard drive, or two, but CD's or DVD's aren't necessarily the best option. With drives... | |
| 6sn7 tube question I haven't tried many of the new 6sn7's but the reissue Tung-Sol's held up quite well compared to vintage Tung-Sol's and Sylvania VT-231's in my AES DJH preamp. | |
| Thoughts on the best bang for the buck I doubt you'll find the Decco discounted anywhere and would recommend buying locally if you have a dealer. If you do need to buy online there are two dealers for the Decco I've had great experience with, MusicDirect and Underwood HiFi. I ordered m... | |
| Thoughts on the best bang for the buck Yes, the Decco has preamp outputs and the Nova will have both preamp and line outputs so that it could be used as either a preamp and DAC or as a stand-alone DAC. There's currently a lot of buzz about the quality of the DAC in the Nova but its int... | |
| Thoughts on the best bang for the buck I don't know if it has enough power for the MG 12's but I've been very happy with the Decco I bought. It replaced some more expensive gear in an attempt to simplify things and the combination of sound quality and versatility are really impressive ... | |
| Entry Level Cables I would second Blindjim's recommendation of Canare 4s11 or even 4s8 cable for your situation. You can buy either in bulk and either terminate them yourself or just use bare wire. The 4s11 is $1.17 a foot from markertek.com. It's flexible and easy ... | |
| No grounded outelsts An easier way to get the same answer would be to use a cheater plug in the existing outlet but ground the cheater plug to the center screw in the outlet cover. All cheater plugs will have either a metal tab with a hole in the center of it or a gre... |