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| Is an IPOD hi-fi? In these threads about whether iPods are hi-fi I often get the sense that some posters have the odd notion that CD's, or even vinyl albums, contain actual music. The image I have is that they believe there is a tiny but completely real orchestra e... | |
| Oppo DVD with Bel Canto DAC2 make sense? I don't have any experience with the Oppo but I've tried a few cheap DVD players, in the $50-100 range, as transports for a Benchmark DAC. While the sonics are fine, at that price level the build quality of the controls and transports becomes a fr... | |
| DVD CD player vs seperates One approach is to get a DVD player that suits what you want in terms of output options and quality for video and pair that with an external DAC for two-channel audio, using the DVD player as just a transport for two-channel. Just as an example, o... | |
| Cambridge or Rotel for B&W 603 S3 speakers? At a price of $1,500 used, or even slightly less, there are a lot of very fine integrateds available. I would look for a Creek 5350, any of the YBA or Audio Refinement integrateds or even a Simaudio I-5 if you can find one. I don't have any experi... | |
| Top 5 Song Writers Of The 80's Gilbert and Sullivan would certainly be on the list. "Pirates of Penzance" and "Mikado" are still being performed almost 120 years after they were written. | |
| Tripping Breakers I had a similar problem some years ago and it was, in fact, the breaker that had failed. It's cheap and easy to replace the breaker so that's certainly something you can isolate as a potential cause of problem. | |
| 220 to 110 coversion - mistake? If you go back to Fry's, to the car audio section, you'll find a product called "Dynamat" that's designed to kill vibration and dampen sound. It's expensive bought in the small kits they sell so if you're willing to wait a few days you can get gen... | |
| Integrated amp for Quad 22L? This is actually less than your budget but the Audio Refinement Complete is an absolutely wonderful SS integrated. I've owned amps from NAD, Rotel and, while I think the Rotels are a good value, the Audio Refinement is a big step up from either th... | |
| 220 to 110 coversion - mistake? I used an inexpensive transformer from Powerbright with a 220V mid-level CD player and couldn't hear any negative effect. I think I paid less than $30 on ebay. The smallest of them should provide more than enough juice for a CD player, http://www.... | |
| Small digital recorder - experiences? Sorry, I forgot to add another option that we experimented with and that sounds closest to what you're describing.We bought an Archos Jukebox Recorder 10 and almost everything about it worked well, USB interface, rechargeable AA batteries, externa... | |
| Small digital recorder - experiences? In gathering audio for our Web site we've tried several options. We found the digital voice recorders like those from Olympus or the Sony that bdy000 describes to be not high-enough quality and not flexible enough. We also used Sony and Sharp mini... | |
| one-box solution NAD has two current products, the L73 and the L53. A couple of other options are the Arcam Solo and the Linn Classic. | |
| Subwoofer connection to older tube amp That's great, congratulations. Now you can take your time adjusting the output, crossover and phase settings to get it to sound best with your system. You'll probably find that what works really well for one recording isn't ideal for another and i... | |
| Subwoofer connection to older tube amp Right, you can't use the 'tape out' connections because they're not controlled by the volume control on the preamp, meaning the volume coming from the sub wouldn't change as you adjust the volume to your main speakers.If you do want to split the p... | |
| Subwoofer connection to older tube amp Sorry if this explanation is simplistic but I'm not sure where your confusion is.Your power amp has two kinds of connections, both of them inputs. The first is the right and left inputs coming from the outputs of the preamp. Those are the RCA conn... |