williewonka
Responses from williewonka
| Good-Quality USB Cable I can save you a lot of money!Take a look at the original post of this thread Do You Use USB for Streaming?Despite is meager price - this is the best cable I've ever used/auditioned - it trounces others brands - even many esoteric cablesIt's the c... | |
| Tonearm wiring termination---DIN, or RCA jacks? I agree with the direct wire approach from everyone aboveBut in the RCA arena - KLE Innovations Absolute Harmony RCA's are the best you can get - bar none!I've owned the entire KLEI lineup - starting with his original Eichmann Silver Bullet and th... | |
| 2 runs of wires or 1 run w/ jumpers I found the opposite to Czarivey, but that does not make their suggestion wrong.It does vary from one case to another and there is not one solution for every possible cable/speaker combinationIn my case, I found using quality all-copper bananas on... | |
| Comments on interconnect cables Hg - take a look at KLE Innovations productsThey're pretty plain looking, but if it's performance you are after - these will make you very happyIf you are looking for a neutral performance with clean, crisp details, superb dynamics and a cavernous... | |
| Direct optical out of Mac vs USB asynchronous Art - my iMac can only play 24/96 via optical - that's why I use USB - I required 24/192Granted USB can be a PITA, but once you overcome it's "shortcomings" it can play higher resolution files.Take a look at the following thread for one of many ca... | |
| Do You Use USB for Streaming? I've just finished trying something a fellow member had asked me offline - but I think it's definitely worth a mention...The "dual cable" mentioned in the initial post above is only 1 meter long and the member had asked...- does it still work as w... | |
| Best Dac under $600... New or used I know it's not below $600 - but MusicDirect currently has the Musical Fidelity M1SDAC on sale for $699 with free shippingRegards... | |
| Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there? Nglazer - did you find a solution?I took a quick look and found various other similar issues pertaining to a "0" file size.Responses to questions cited issues relating to- bugs in WMA related software drivers- certain file types- the CD drive hard... | |
| Best sounding MC phono box at $250 or less?? Sunnyjim - there is no need to "trash" the 103 - you can simply mount the brass shim between the cartridge and the arm as many people do - it will provide the additional mass required to optimize cartridge performance.The bluetak suggestion is als... | |
| Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there? Wildoats - it would appear that WMP does a very good job of ripping WAV - I ripped one of my more detailed albums to WAV and I could not tell any difference between that and the same album ripped to AIF using dbPoweramp- FYI both rips were perform... | |
| Best sounding MC phono box at $250 or less?? Matt - you are correct, however, with the addition of a 7gram brass heashsell shim they are a very good match to rega style arms.I have two 103's, each epoxied to a 7 gram brass shim and they perform extremely well on my Audiomods arm, but even wi... | |
| Best sounding MC phono box at $250 or less?? Matt - you are correct, however, with the addition of a 7gram brass heashsell shim they are a very good match to rega style arms.I have two 103's, each epoxied to a 7 gram brass shim and they perform extremely well on my Audiomods arm, but even wi... | |
| USB SQ, what can one expect Cerrot - I'm assuming the spdif output you are using is on a seperate sound card - which one are you using?What others have you tried?Thanks | |
| Impedance mis-match? Here's the response from MF... most digital parts I know of are 50 ohms (or 100 ohms balanced) to preserve square wave edges. That said at these relatively lowish frequencies (low MHz) such a mismatch is unlikely to cause problems unless going int... | |
| Best sounding MC phono box at $250 or less?? Czarivey - ever thought of selling the v-90 with the TT also? - It's a nice little package :-)Do you hook it up to the car audio?Cheers |