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| How tall are your speaker stands It depends on speakers. Some speakers should be placed with the midrange at the ear level, some should be lower, some should be higher. You need to find out from the speaker manufacturer what the recommended hight is. | |
| Snow Leopard and audio quality Mst, Yes, you will lose all files and programs so make sure you backup everything first. Since my Mini is a dedicated music server and my iTunes library is on external hard drives, I can do clean install without any trouble. | |
| Snow Leopard and audio quality Clean install means reformat the hard disk and install Snow Leopard from scratch, as opposed to installing it over an older OS like Leopard or Tiger as an upgrade.I had done a clean install of Snow Leopard on my Mini but I didn't notice any sound ... | |
| Has anyone heard the new OPPO BDP-83SE Extremephone,At what bit rate does DSD converse to? Is it 16/88.2 or 24/88.2? | |
| Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server I use a pair of Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition 1TB with my Mini (see my system). They are very quiet. | |
| NOS cartridges Yes, it is. I wouldn't buy NOS carts if I were you. | |
| Novice here with questions Actually, slanted ceiling isn't bad at all because it breaks up standing wave. The key here is to place both the main speakers on the low end of the room firing towards the high end and you will be surprised how good they sound.If you buy used, $2... | |
| Help designing mac mini music server Lokie, I think your math is a bit off. Unless you are ripping into MP3 or AAC, each CD will need about 250 to 350 MB in Apple Lossless format. | |
| What is correct buffer size in iTunes? The buffer size you refer to is for playback audio and video streamed from Internet. It has nothing to do with ripping CD or playing back music from HD. | |
| Pass Labs XP-10 / Directv remote crossing It is not the frequency, it is the code conflict. Unfortunately, you can't control both units, you have to pick one. You don't have to move either one, just tape something over the infra sensor on the unit that you don't want to control. | |
| Please recommend a budget tube dac Have you seen this auction? http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/auc.pl?dgtlconv&1258425159You might be able to get it for a good price. | |
| Dynavector XV-1S question Probably mold release agent from new LPs. I suggest you wash them before first play. | |
| Esoteric X-01 power cord Mark, With all due respect, if a power cord can change a particular range of frequency output of a CD player, there is something very wrong with the design of that equipment. A well designed equipment, particularly at this ultra high-end level, th... | |
| What gives? CD’s, Solid State? Listen to Elizabeth.A good source to buy those ferrite cores is Parts Express. Don't pay extra for "audiophile" type. They don't work better except they cost many times more. | |
| How do you correlate the SPL with db The SPL you referred to is the absolute db value, 0db represents the max value the display can show. The scale on the eq is relative, 0db means flat or no deviation.Lets say you have a 1000Hz signal and you turn the volume up such that the mic rec... |