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| Experience with North Creek Speakers Very hard to imagine getting more for your money elsewhere. North Creek speakers are a labor of love and I would have two pairs except they ran out of the kits I wanted before I had the money saved.George Short is excellent to deal with and will b... | |
| Closest DAC to Vinyl Sound? Oxymoron, you know, two things that are mutually contradictory. Famous examples : jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, sex worker.There are external DACs that sound sort of hi-fi, drawing attention to their wonderful sound, and there are others th... | |
| Best surprisingly good value component My Klyne SK-5A preamp, bought from the first owner about 8 years ago and getting on for 26 years old. As a linestage it was head and shoulders above the Copland model I had before it, and which cost nearly twice as much as the Klyne. With phono th... | |
| EL34 Triode Integrated with 35-40 WPC?? My Audio Space Nova M-34 monoblocks are rated at 32WPC in triode mode. Each one of them runs four EL34s.I realize the OP is looking for an EL34 integrated. He may have to look for a unit with more than the standard four output tubes to get what he... | |
| Help with my first DAC under 2K. Towards the top of the 2K limit I would check out the Simaudio Moon 300D. At a lower price I would try its little brother, the Moon 100D, or a used Apogee Mini-DAC. An Apogee Duet is an interesting option if you have a Mac, especially if you want ... | |
| travelling speakers I use a pair of Visonik David 5001i. Metal cabinets, so very sturdy. Amp is a Winsome Mouse, not too hard to schlepp and runs on any voltage.BTW iPod drives this but if I bring the laptop and Apogee Duet the system does up to 24/96. And the laptop... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes To my ear the Pure Music program makes a worthwhile improvement in Redbook sound from iTunes. I'm gad to know it makes a similar difference when streamed over a wireless connection. A wireless connection can't send any higher resolution than 16/44... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Can't help with Squeeze stuff unfortunately, I don't have it. At the worst, I suppose one could backup, then trash either AyreWave or iTunes, listen to a suite of test pieces ( with a notepad handy ), then trash the other, reinstall the first and ... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes I would first try launching both programs ( iTunes and AyreWave ) and see if they could simultaneously be running and both pointed at the same music library. If so, a comparison would be matter of three clicks.If that didn't work, I would try a co... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes 4est, thanks for setting me straight on the built-in limit of USB 2.0. Both the Cambridge DACMagic and the USB version of the Apogee Mini-DAC stop at 16/48. This is a limitation of their USB implementation, I take it. | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Here's the link for the AyreWave software :http://sbooth.org/AyreWave/(IÂm afraid youÂll have to copy and paste that into your browser. Agon keeps telling me my url tags donÂt match, even though IÂve copied and pasted them from their guide pag... | |
| looking for an "all in one" unit. Shanling MC-30, MC-50 or MC-3000. All offer excellent sound for the dollar. Metal fabrication quality is excellent too. Looks and design are in some ways unusual, better for the top of a piece of furniture than on a lower shelf or behind a door. | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes iTunes will output hi-res files via FireWire to my Apogee Duet, up to a max of 24/96. The resolution switching has to be done manually using Audio MIDI Setup.Same for my Apogee Mini-DAC but the resolution goes up to 24/192.However if you use Pure ... | |
| Does Bi-amping really make a difference in sound? I have heard great biamplified systems, both active and passive, and I have also heard great monoamplified systems (many more of them). The great monoamplified systems never made me think, "Now what this system needs is biamplification."Which lead... | |
| What Chores do Audiophiles Hate? Cleaning out the rat's nest of cables behind the rack. |