williewonka
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| Best True Portable or Boom-Box? Looked for one last year and was very disappointed with everything out there - sound quality sucked big time - all sounded "boxie" - even the $450 unitsMost of them are bluetooth these days - so very limited platformsEnded up buying a Yamaha mini ... | |
| Am I an Audiophile? Broadstone - Maybe there should be a grading system...Green belt - good components, but still using stock power cordsBrown belt - good components, good power, speaker and interconnectsBlue belt - more than one system of high qualityBlack belt - mo... | |
| Am I an Audiophile? Perhaps this thread would provide an answer your question :-) You Know You're an Audiophile if Dictionary says - An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.Would that be regardless of equipment cost?I regard myse... | |
| Schiit Gungnir DAC - anyone have one of these? AND - After 200+ hours burn-in it really shinesMuch improved spatial detailing that really increases instrument position and isolation from front to back i.e. more air around instruments.Back to the toons:-) | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC And then it all came together :-) So I've had the Bifrost in the system for 9 days and it's been powered on 24/7.Yesterday, I played some classical and immediately became very aware of the spatial details this unit is now producing.Their placement... | |
| How to get iTunes to play FLAC UPDATE - it appears there are a few glitches with Audirvana...If you put some titles in a playlist and let it cycle round - when it returns to the start it plays the track at half speedSelecting a track outside of the playlist fixes that.Provided ... | |
| Premium guitar cables? Do they exist? If you can find a retailer that sells Van den Hul cable in bulk they have a huge selection of cables you can use that will have superior performance to standard cables and they are on-the-road toughThey make cables that can handle harsh chemical e... | |
| Power cord connectors I recently purchased some gold plated copper connectors off of ebay and found they provided a noticeable improvement and only $24 for mains and iec - only took a week to arrive - great serviceHave them on my DIY Furutech cablesThey replaced some g... | |
| Power cord suggestions? I can confirm that Naim sound amazing with Furutech power cablesMuch better than their crappy stock cable :-) But then ALL the brands in my system sound great with Furutech power cables :-) | |
| How to get iTunes to play FLAC Oooops - forgot to thank you all for your inputFYI . I had been converting to AIFF using MAX and it worked very well - now I can save a step :-) | |
| How to get iTunes to play FLAC DONE IT!!!Audirvana has a method whereby it imports flacs into itunes via a proxy file - see page 10 of their manual on how to do this.There appears to be one caveat at present and I've told them about it - you have to have the flacs on the comput... | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC Photonman - Yes it loads into ram - there is also an indicator on the interface that shows how the retrieval from the hard disk is progressing and where in the retrieved data the current point of playback is situated.With 16/44 it retrieves the tr... | |
| Having 24-Bit Sound or not I've since changed to Audirvana since it bypasses all of the Apple software and provide a significant improvement in audio quality over BitPerfect | |
| Power cord suggestions? If you haven't done so - upgrade your outletsI like Pass & Seymour MRI outlet from Take Five Audio - around $25 - but there are many other worthy outlets out there from PS Audio, Furutech etc..They clamp the pins so much better than the standa... | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC One thing I forgot to mention in the above post - Audirvana seems to integrate nicely with iTunes, which in turn works nicely with my droid app Retune, which I use for remote control.Finally this streaming thing seems to be coming together :-) |