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| Whats wrong-right? Yeah, buying the bigger hard drive from Apple is like buying floor mats for your new car from the dealer.160 Gb isn't a big enough drive to use as a music server, anyway. A better plan would be to buy the basic Mac Mini for $600 and keep only the ... | |
| Best Small budget speakers for girlfriend I have a pair of the Soliloquy SAT 5's that Jax2 recommends and they're my favorites of the many small speakers I've tried. I'm using them in a second system with the Onkyo 9555 I recommended in your other post and it's a wonderful combination. Th... | |
| Best budget equipment? The Onkyo A9555 integrated amp is a pretty remarkable amplifier for the money. List is $800 but it's available at Amazon for $500 new, or refurbished from accessories4less at $400. It got an excellent review in Stereophile and I've been trying one... | |
| Compare Shuguang vs ElectroHarmonics 6SN7 Dgarretson, yes, I actually have the EH in addition to the Tung Sols, I'd forgotten that. I bought them first to replace the stock Chinese 6SN7s in an AES AE-3 DJH, then almost immediately bought the Tung Sols on the advice of a friend and played ... | |
| Compare Shuguang vs ElectroHarmonics 6SN7 No experience with either of those but I have some re-issue Tung Sols 6SN7's that are surprisingly good compared to the NOS Tung-Sols and Sylvanias I also have. | |
| Used CD player for 200-300 I had the Music Hall CD-25 and liked it a lot, wonderful sound for the money. I now have a Denon 2910 and am equally happy with it. It sounds excellent, is very versatile and seems to be better built than the Music Hall. I did have early transport... | |
| Good digital cable suggestions I'd also recommend the Stereovox. | |
| Device to record & playback music ? I suggested the MD primarily because I thought it was probably closest in functionality and interface to a tape deck, at least to a cassette deck. It's capable of making a perfect digital copy so the sound of it will be as good as the digital orig... | |
| budget power conditioner The PS Audio UPC-200 comes up fairly often here for less than $300 used. It's a nice piece of gear that works well for me. | |
| Device to record & playback music ? If what you want is the closest possible equivalent of a tape deck in terms of user interface and functionality it would probably be a MiniDisc player, like this Sony.The technology never really caught on outside certain specialized areas, partly ... | |
| which external hard disc for music storage? I have one of the "Porsche" designed LaCie external firewire drives and have been very happy with it. It's the quietest external drive I've ever owned and certainly the nicest looking. | |
| Need Audiophile Headphone Rig to Replace Sen HD590 I use a pair of HD600s with a Headroom Little More Plus headphone amp and an Ah! Tjoeb tubed CD player. It's a very nice combination. I like the 'process' circuit on the Headroom amp. It does make the experience more like listening to speakers, th... | |
| Headroom ultra microdac, Benchmark Dac1 or other? I'm using the Benchmark DAC1 between an Airport Express and my preamp, connected by a glass Toslink cable. I love the setup, the songs are on a Mac in my office and the Airport Express and Benchmark are in my living room with my system. A transpor... | |
| Spades with NAD c320bee? HELP As Swampwalker suggests, there are spade to banana adapters that will solve the problem. I use them in a situation just like yours with Cardas cables and a backup amp not designed for spades. Here's one source for them. | |
| How do you move a 650lbs Rack on Hardwood... Most large hardware or home improvement stores have disks intended for sliding heavy furniture. They come in different sizes from an inch or so up to six or seven inches diameter. They made from a very hard, slick white plastic that looks almost l... |