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| Best amp for Meadowlark Blue Herons? Your other thread on the same topic has garnered a few suggestions involving tube amps too.I have Shearwater Hot Rods. I've run them with a transistor amp ( SimAudio ) and with my current tubes. The transistor amp had terrific authority in the bas... | |
| Best amp for Meadowlark Blue Herons? Dang nice speakers. I'd go with the BAT or the Belles. But have you considered a BAT tube amp? | |
| I've narrowed it down... I've also noted that B&Ws seem to like transistors better. Perhaps this is because of the complex crossovers in most of the B&W models.Your list of tube amps is a good one, don't think you can go wrong there. Note that these models don't a... | |
| Can DAC with volume control act as Pre-amp? The Benchmark DAC-1 HDR is a good example of the kind of unit that fills the OP's bill. Its functionality is just about what he would need if he went for the high end power amp at this point.I would suggest he pay attention to the remote control f... | |
| Can DAC with volume control act as Pre-amp? Certainly you can use the DAC with its volume control as a preamp. Absolutely yes, that means you might be able to save some money to spend on the power amp.This hobby is an upgrading game, and although you might get better sound with a straight-u... | |
| Itunes ? Thanks very much for letting us know how things turned out, Streetdaddy. Your plan sounds excellent. Best of luck! | |
| Complete newbie needing guidance/purchase advice Very sorry to hear of the shipping damage, Rm9. I'm afraid it's happened to me, too, and I wish I'd mentioned it as a horrible possibility.Nowadays I always double-insure, with shipsurance.com, as well as with the carrier. You can do this as eithe... | |
| Least Controversial, Reasonably Priced AC Upgrades Four plugs... meaning, two double AC outlets? The short answer is yes, but one outlet would have to be daisy-chained from the other. That second outlet would have second grabs at the juice, so better to put your greediest component(s) -- the power... | |
| Least Controversial, Reasonably Priced AC Upgrades Not AFAIK. If I were doing my line again today I would use cryo-treated wire. That's about the only difference. | |
| Looking for bookshelf upgrade from B&W DM302s The DM302s are one of the most musical speakers you can find at the price. (Actually the only B&W I've heard that I liked more was the old DM4.) You'll need to take a big step if you want both musicality and extra weight at the low end.The spe... | |
| Triangle Titus vs Rega R5 Replacing the tweeters is an odd suggestion, unless the manufacturer in fact offered it as an upgrade. Otherwise, its just an unauthorized mod and who knows if you'll like it.Maybe the least costly alternative is to bite the bullet, sell the Regas... | |
| Praise for DacMagic I got a regulated power supply for my Apogee Mini-DAC and made up a connecting cable from leftover Rat Shack speaker wire. Sound turned out not as good as my battery supply. A bit harsh and edgy.I made up a second 12V cable using cryo-treated Moga... | |
| Amarra 2.3.2 vs Puremusic 1.82 playback software Jwm, I thought the download sites used FLAC (which is lossless of course) just to keep the file size down. Very useful with hi-res files!Once I get the FLACs on my hard drive I can convert them to WAV or AIF. You could try the same thing, play the... | |
| Itunes ? Thanks for an interesting read, Al. I don't believe SuperDuper cloning goes quite as far down into the disk structure when duplicating data as the Windows process does. For this reason one would have to consider the Windows cloning operation as mo... | |
| Itunes ? Al, Herman's excellent response gives my reasoning for the clone operation using SuperDuper. Once it's set up, regular incremental backups become so easy that they are actually likely to get done. As well, familiarity with the SD process may encou... |