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| sealed bookshelf advice, to pair with jolida 1301 -Another small, front-ported monitor that's very good at the price is the Usher S-520. Here's a Stereophile review.- | |
| Need help with wiring new Paradigms? A great, inexpensive banana connector is from a company called Knukonceptz and they're sold on ebay in sets of four for $2 each. They're gold-plated beryllium copper, have two set-screws per terminal and are the BFA-style that give you a lot more ... | |
| Digital vs Analog output on CD players There are two primary parts inside each of your CD players, a transport that picks up the digital signal and then a digital-to-analog converter.When you use the digital output on either the NAD or the Rotel you're picking up the signal after it le... | |
| Can i clean the female insides of my powercables ? If you don't have pipe cleaners handy and you're going to the store to track some down anyway, go to the dental care aisle at a drugstore and pick up some of the tiny brushes that are designed to clean between your teeth. They're built like a pipe... | |
| Do high level sub inputs really sound better? I guess it's obvious by now you're not going to get a definitive answer and certainly not a consensus. With my speakers and sub, an HSU, the high level inputs make for a better integration between speakers and sub and that setup is what was recomm... | |
| How do I put a DAC to good use? Zippyy, I was responding to your original statement that the AE has only USB out. The devices Gmood1 sent links to don't connect to the USB port on the Airport Express, they connect to the USB port on your PC or Mac. To get an audio signal from th... | |
| How do I put a DAC to good use? This isn't an answer to your question but a clarification. The USB port on the Airport Express isn't an output, it serves only as a connection for a shared network printer.The output of the Express is a mini-optical jack. You can stream wirelessly... | |
| Tape Out as Subwoofer Output? As Narrod said, if your subwoofer has 'high-level' inputs in addition to the 'line-level' inputs you can run a second pair of speaker cables from the speaker terminals on your amp to the high-level inputs on your subwoofer.That can be done either ... | |
| Tube amps and iPods PauloIt's not necessarily true that the files on the iPod are compressed, that's entirely up to the user. It will store and play the same AIFF files that are on a CD, uncompressed WAV files or several different types of compressed files.I agree wi... | |
| Has iTunes, etc. impacted your listening habits? A couple of points of clarification for anyone who hasn't explored the option of putting your music on a hard drive.iTunes and mp3's don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. iTunes is an application that runs on either a PC or a Mac ... | |
| Tube amps and iPods And I know for a fact that Heidegger had an iPod, one of the black ones, but he used it mostly to listen to Kant's podcasts, through a tube amp. | |
| LCD Flat screen tv's I have a Viewsonic 27" LCD TV that I bought because I saw one at around $500 and I'd had very good experience over the years buying their computer monitors for my departments at work. I think it's really good right out of the box, as good as anyth... | |
| Which format to use - mp3 vs. windows lossless, I don't know if there's an equivalent plug-in for iTunes on the PC but there's a free downloadable Applescript for the Mac called "Lossless to AAC Workflow" on dougsscipts.com that will convert Apple Lossless files on the fly for download to the i... | |
| region 1 or pal, better picture? Many DVD players will play both PAL and NTSC discs but the issue is whether your TV will accept the PAL signal. You need to have what's called a 'multi-system' TV. | |
| Is it double taxation? As S7horton says, the tax isn't on the item, it's on the transaction. |