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| What song is your fav.Emmylou cut??? It's impossible to pick a favorite cut but I've always thought she had a particular genius for fitting perfectly into the music of others without ever becoming a 'background' singer. Her "Duets" album is an amazing showcase of that talent. I'm par... | |
| good quality DIN plug Take Five Audio is in Canada and carries quite a few different DIN plugs, most seem to be from Cardas. They might have what you want. Click here and look through the three pages of search results for "DIN". | |
| CDP or universal? I have the Denon 2910, which is the same player as the 955s, and am very happy with it, though I use it with an external DAC so that I get the ability to switch between CD and wireless network streaming.One of the things I've liked about the two D... | |
| help-50 ft cable run Canare StarQuad 4s11 is the usual recommendation for a high-quality but inexpensive cable for long runs. It's got four conductors but for non-biwire applications you can combine the two red and two white conductors to create an effective 11 gauge ... | |
| Monitors for Sim integrated I tried several brands of monitors with my I-5 and the best match among them was ProAc. My current speaker, the DeVore Fidelity Gibbon, is better than any of them by quite a margin, though. It's a floorstander but a small, easy-to-place one. DeVor... | |
| Diagnosing Distortion in PC Based System Cwlondon, I agree that any compression scheme is a compromise of convenience over fidelity and Apple's proprietary compression scheme has more to do with Apple's profit than with the stated goal of maintaining digital property rights.However, ther... | |
| Diagnosing Distortion in PC Based System I didn't mean my offer of a suggested fix as an indictment of iTunes. I think it's one of the best, most useful applications ever written. There isn't an application out there that doesn't have peculiarities that you have to learn about and deal w... | |
| Diagnosing Distortion in PC Based System Don't have any idea if you're having the same problem I once had with iTunes but it sounds similar. Here's a link to my original thread describing the problem and the fix recommended by Jayboard, deleting a corrupted iTunes equalization file. The ... | |
| Best Portable Digital Device Good advice from both Ehart and Marco. The combination of the iPod and iTunes is elegant, easy and powerful. There's no one right answer about the size of the iPod and the amount of compression, or lack of compression. It's a good idea to always r... | |
| speaker/amp combo for 1300? I've had a number of moderately priced integrateds and I would completely agree with S7horton on the recommendation of the Audio Refinement Complete. Another fine choice would be any of the Creek integrateds, like the 4330. Then spend all the rest... | |
| Good,cheap speakers for sonic t-amp and ipod Another great, cheap speaker is the Polk R15. List price is $180 but they're pretty commmonly available online at $60-75 and I've seen them on sale at Fry's for $50. I had a pair for awhile and did try them with the t-amp. They're reasonably effic... | |
| Good,cheap speakers for sonic t-amp and ipod Buy a pair of used Minimus 7 speakers from ebay and the $15 crossover upgrade kit sold by ebay user 'litekeys.' I've got a pair I set up with a modified t-amp and it sounds remarkably good for its size and price. Get an SLA battery and you're all ... | |
| Is an IPOD hi-fi? Marco, of course, I agree with you completely, I think we're actually making the same point. Focusing on just the bits or just the medium that stores them doesn't tell you anything useful about the quality of the music that comes out at the end of... | |
| Need new speakers Either the orginal Meadowlark Kestrel, the Kestrel II or the Meadowlark Swift would be a great choice. The original Kestrel is a wonderful, small speaker that disappears in a room but is extremely satisfying with all kinds of music. Not everyone l... | |
| Recommended amplification? If you're after another receiver a Rotel RX-1050 would give you 100 watts and a phono stage in a pretty versatile package at about what you want to spend. I had one and liked it. It got a great review in Absolute Sound, as well. |