stickman451
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| Connect Macbook Pro to DacMagic DAC Update:Got myself a mini-stereo to Toslink cable and connected it to the headphone jack of my Macbook Pro. Downloaded several 24/96 albums off of HDTracks.com including 'Hotel 'California' and 'Paper Airplane'. Now we are talking!!! So far I ha... | |
| Glass v.s. Plastic Toslink Looked on Amazon; not finding glass Toslink. Found this on Lifatec:http://www.lifatec.com/toslink2.html | |
| Glass v.s. Plastic Toslink The glass Toslink that I have seen are around $60 for a meter v.s. $10 for plastic. I'm fine trying the $60 glass. Are there glass cables cheaper than that; who sells them? | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Socrates7,tell us more about that listening session and your choice to go with the 3.7's. What convinced you to go that way? | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Macdadtexas is making good sense I think. Before I would move to the 3.7's (for $5,500) I think that I would take a serious listen to a good pair of used 20.1's... Not sure when Magnepan will update the 20.1's but I am guessing it will be in the n... | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Not sure about the 3.7's yet; still in the early auditioning stage. However, I can say that when I compared the 3.6's to both the 1.6's and the new 1.7's I preferred the 3.6's ( by a substantial margin). The 1.6's just did not do it for me at all.... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? We are getting much closer... I just installed a Cambridge DacMagic 3 and I am running 'hi-rez' 24/96 FLAC files from HDTracks.com via my Macbook Pro into it and the results are very, very good. (Using the digital-out headphone jack of the MacBook... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Yes; Cary 500 MB. These babies do 500 watts into 8 ohms and double-down to 1000 watts into a 4 ohm load (such as my Magnepan 3.6's) with plenty of current, they can drive any speaker. Softer and more refined than the Pass A/B designs (a lot less e... | |
| Just Bought a VPI Scout I used a DV-20xl on my Scout; highly recommended. I moved it to my VPI Aries 3/DV 507 MKII when I 'traded-up' and it still did a fine job. I don't think that you can go wrong with the 20-xl... | |
| McCormack DNA 500 or Cary CAD MB 500? I've tried a number of amps for my Magnepan 3.6's; the Cary 500's won-out. They are excellent IMO. Power to spare, they do not break a sweat driving the 3.6's in my 17.5 x 26 room... Very highly recommended!!!Let us know how you like them on the R... | |
| Connect Macbook Pro to DacMagic DAC The HDTracks 24/96 files for 'Hotel California' and 'Paper Airplane' are sounding pretty darn good via the usb, no telling how great they will sound via the MBP's digital-out over the TosLink. | |
| Connect Macbook Pro to DacMagic DAC Yep, I am seeing that now. No matter what resolution file I play the DAC is showing 44 on the input LED using the usb port from the Mac.So, with a Toslink connected to the headphone jack I will get true 96 into the DAC?Can you recommend a great mi... | |
| Help with Playing FLAC files Thanks for all the info. I am downloading 'Hotel 'California' and 'Paper Airplane' in 24/92 from HDTracks.com as I write this; can't wait to hear how they sound off the Mac with the DacMagic...I will look for a glass mini-rca to Toslink on Amazon.... | |
| Help with Playing FLAC files XLD works well. I can't use Audirvana; it wants OSX 10.6 and my Macbook is running 10.5.8.I downloaded Fidelia and my initial impression is that it sounds better than iTunes playing the FLAC files directly rather than using XLD to convert to Aiff.... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Allison Krauss and Union Station's latest effort, "Paper Airplane". Excellent record! |