slothman
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| New home - shoulda woulda coulda's Nsgarch -Floor is joisted over a daylight basement however I'll have radiant heat tubing running under the floor (stapled foil panels for retention)I'm in the northeast.10-4 on the ethernet and extra conduits! | |
| RobinTrower I've got the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab gold CD (UDCD 684) and it sounds excellent! Was pricey ($57 on Ebay) but was worth it as this is one of my all time faves. | |
| how about USB cable? I have a Waveterminal U24 USB device. When I first started experimenting with it, I had to run a 15 ft USB cable to reach my gear. I initially thought that the sound was rather harsh (bright). I then tried using my laptop and a shorter (3 ft) USB ... | |
| Undiscovered blues gems..... Recent under the radar? Try...Hubert Sumlin - 'About Them Shoes'Tab Benoit - 'The Sea Saint Sessions' | |
| High End User Interface for PC Audio Kenn39 - no external soundcard in your configuration? | |
| High End User Interface for PC Audio Curious as to what DAC's you folks have found success with out of the Waveterminal. Would anyone consider SRC upsampling in Foobar (channeling through a capable device) superior to an upsampling DAC downstream of the U24? Or non OS DAC for that ma... | |
| Chris Whitley 1960-2005 I can think of no other artist whose words and music have been as moving to me. I was fortunate enough to share a beer and conversation with Chris prior to his performance at Raoul's in Portland, ME back in April of '98 (Dirt Floor). We talked abo... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Edesilva - I got a deal on a U24 a few months back. I'm running the V 2.61 driver. My control panel doesn't say ASIO 2.0, just an ASIO "logo" in the corner. Foobar recognizes my U24 as an ASIO capable output device. I believe the capability is inh... | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? Interesting thread. Perhaps another alternative for tweakers (note: link is to a PDF file, may want to right click and download first):In Quest of Absolute Fidelity: The Saga of the Black CD - Finding Black Gold "music CDs using this (burn) proce... | |
| Any high quality music servers out there? Apple Lossless to Windows Media LosslessMthomas - I'm not into iTunes AT ALL but from what I understand there is no direct conversion method. However, there is a program called JHymn that looks like it will get you from Apple Lossless to *.wav and... | |
| Outstanding Drum Performances Steve Gadd on Steely Dan's "Aja" | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nice little session:Tom Jans and Mimi Farina - Take Heart (1971 AMLS 64310) Leo Kottke - My Feet Are Smiling (1973 Capitol ST 11164)Joh Hammond - John Hammond (1964 Vanguard VSD2148)Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' at the Half Note... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Correct me if I'm wrong but are you guys doing all of this and still using Windows sound drivers? Hopefully you are utilizing the ASIO USB driver and selecting it in your Foobar output preferences. Just curious. | |
| Rogue Audio M-120's I've got them (non-magnum)- I love them. When finances agree I may consider the 150 upgrade. My thread when I was in your position:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1106508342&openflup&11&4#11Be interested in you impres... | |
| Tips for tagging classical rips? You may want to look at a program call Tag & Rename. I use it exclusively and it is Classical-friendly:http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htmYou can set fields as you wish and do batch editing as well. Little bit of a learning curve but an indespen... |