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| CAL Alpha DAC: Stock vs. 24/96 upgrade I tried the Mullard's and didn't like it. Very syrupy, lacking in details. The Sylvania 5751's, though, provide a very clean, full, airy sound that was a revelation. I agree with the idea of playing with tubes before you throw down $500 for an upg... | |
| matching the Arros Jolida 302b. It's my favorite combination with the Arro's thus far, and I've listened to a number of amps with those speakers.Michael | |
| CAL Alpha DAC: Stock vs. 24/96 upgrade How are you planning on getting the 24/96 upgrade? To my knowledge, that hasn't been offered since 2002-ish, since California Audio Labs has been out of business for several years.As for the tubes, my favorites so far are the Sylvania 5751's. (It'... | |
| Advice needed building a system over time??? Dvorak was your great great uncle?! How cool! He's my favorite composer.I agree with the above comment that room treatment might be your best bang for the buck. Or, even simpler, spend some time optimizing your speaker positions. You might be amaz... | |
| Transfering CDs to iTunes FLAC. Am I missing....? In my opinion, FLAC is the ideal lossless format for as Slim Devices product, since it's natively decoded by the unit.How did you get iTunes to rip into FLAC? On my Mac, with my iTunes 7.6, going to iTunes-->Preferences-->Advanced-->Impor... | |
| SS Pre-Amp / Tube Amp Dave, I disagree with your assertion that a SS pre and tube amp is "backwards". It was one of my best combinations. I went from a tube pre + tube amp to SS pre + SS amp. I couldn't believe the difference! (And the SS pre cost a lot less than the t... | |
| Anyone send back Magnepan MMG's? Or should I just keep the MMG's to get me off of Pat Benatar? | |
| SS Pre-Amp / Tube Amp One of my very favorite combinations was as SS pre (Musical Fidelity A3cr) with tube amps (Audio Valve ppp45). Although, I agree, the conventional wisdom is the opposite, it worked very well for me.I'm not sure what criteria (input/output impedanc... | |
| Anyone send back Magnepan MMG's? thanks for all the suggestions.Fishcat1, that's exactly the adjective that I've been looking for to describe the MMG's: Flat! They're very lacking in dynamics.I do have the speakers pulled out pretty far into the room (about 4 feet), and I've disc... | |
| the next step--20 amp circuit Markphd, technically you CAN put 15 ampere outlets on a 20 ampere circuit, PROVIDED THAT IT'S NOT THE ONLY OUTLET ON THE CIRCUIT. If it is the only outlet, then it needs to advertise the full 20A capacity. Otherwise, the idea is that the load will... | |
| Why would itunes strip data from .wav files? 3 Qs: You're right -- I confused this with another thread. His source files were WAV, not MP3. My bad.Michael | |
| Why would itunes strip data from .wav files? 3 Qs: Synthfreek, you can convert them to Apple Lossless BUT when the source file is itself a lossy MP3 file, you've already lost data from the original CD, and now you're converting it to lossless -- too late. To preserve all of the information, you ne... | |
| Anybody have experience with a Pro-ject RM 6 SB? I owned one for a couple years until very recently, and it's a solid performer. It clearly beat a Music Hall MMF-5 and an old Technics SL1200. I replaced it with a KAB-modified Technics SL1210 and feel that I've gone up a notch or two from the Pro... | |
| Advice on first HT equipment and setup. The JMLab 926 are nice speakers. Full-bodied sound but detailed. I would try to match it with other JMLabs (Chorus series I think is in your budget). Otherwise consider PSB or Totem. You can get away with using monitors in the rears since there's ... | |
| Advice on first HT equipment and setup. OK, I'd start with a receiver in the $500-ish range that is strong at both audio and video (Yamaha HTR-6060 comes to mind), a DVD player good at displaying standard DVD's even on an HDTV (the Oppo DV-980H gets a lot of buzz), and speakers that mat... |