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| mac min or pc I use a Mac Mini. I am sure you can buy more PC for the same money but I doubt you can find one so compact and runs as quiet. | |
| SPDIF Cable Length Critical? For Toslink optical cable, if it is made of quartz glass, you can go as long as 10M (33 feet); if it is made of plastic fiber, you will need a signal booster to go longer than 5M.For non-optical connection, I would suggest you use AES/EBU balanced... | |
| Help with CD Player If you already have a CD player and are looking for upgrade, I think it would be far more cost effective to just buy a DAC like the Benchmark DAC-1 to use with your existing CD player. | |
| Mac Mini Questions You can just turn Airport off which will disable the internal wireless. But why do you want to do that? Airport is one of the very best IMHO.No, you cannot use 3 inch CD with the superdrive. I think in your case the faster way to get music from 3 ... | |
| Finger Prints on Records Have you tried the disc doctor's miracle record cleaner? It works very well for me. | |
| Novice interconnect question. What kind of system do you have? What kind of interconnect are you using now and what are you planning to buy? Without knowing any of these, it is impossible to tell what will be the best course of action. | |
| capacitors Why do you want to replace the capacitors? Are your power amp and speaker malfunctioning? | |
| Audience Interconnects for analog Isn't AU-24 already an analog cable? | |
| Turntable to Benchmark to amp... DAC-1 doesn't have analog input. You can trade your DAC1 for a Benchmark DAC1 Pre for a few hundred dollars extra and avoid the trouble of getting a separate preamp. | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? Cerrot, Do you think spending $3,000 on cables and PC on a $950 DAC will out perform a $4,000 DAC? | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? IMHO, if you need USB input and 24/96 decoding, at this price, the Benchmark is as good as you can get. | |
| anyone else hate locking RCAs? I agree. Locking RCA plug is a pain to use in tight space. Some how, I always tune them in the wrong direction. | |
| Vintage Japanese Turntables Another vote for the Kenwood KD-500. I love its marble like plinth. | |
| Seeking Headphone Reccomendation For around $300, IMHO, the HD-600 is the best buy. | |
| Amplifier hum - normal? All transformers will hum a little but only poorly constructed ones will generate excessive hums. I would consider that a defect if you can hear it more than a few inches away, especially in a modern high-end amp. The propose of a high-end amp is ... |