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| McIntosh MC2102 Question Mac has changed the bias on the 12AT7 drivers to increase lifespan. I don't know the S/N cutover. This is documented in the service manual. | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Chris - Thanks for the tip! Are you using a PC or a MAC? If it's a PC, then problem solved. If not, it's still worth trying out. I'm sure I can borrow an Airport for a day. Mark - thanks for your kind offer to test sometime. Since the card is only... | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Racernet,Understand, there are multiple ways of getting bit perfect from a PC, but iTunes is problematic.As iTunes/QuickTime is a Directsound/Waveout device only, (so far as I can tell), kernel streaming and ASIO are not an option. Do you know of ... | |
| AAC or AppleLossless The big deal is that with a PC based platform running XP, I can't get decent quality out of iTunes because, as a directsound/waveout device, it goes through kmixer. ASIO matters only because it is one way to bypass kmixer. So there is a sound qual... | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Question for all you PC and iTunes users:Do you have bit perfect playback? Or are you listening through kmixer, which upsamples everything to 48 kHz, then usually back down to 44.1 kHz again in the output device. I have a fairly hi res 2 channel r... | |
| McIntosh C-2200 Preamp I have had a C2200 for about a month. It replaced an Adcom GFP-750 solid state unit. It's driving a MAC 2102, and on occasion a Classe' Model 15, with new model Vienna Acoustics Beethoven loudspeakers. First, It's dead quiet. Quieter than the Adco... | |
| Your First System Circa 1965. My first system was a Knight Kit KM-15 tube amplifier driving an 8" "full range" paper cone speaker, also from Allied Radio in Chicago. Speaker was in a homemade plywood box with no back. Phono source was a "Dynamic" cartridge (Stanton... |