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| Avalon Eidolon Diamond vs Revel Salon 2 I have had a pair of Avalon Eidolon Diamonds for the last 6 years and agree with Siddh & Rushton's assessment. The Avalon speakers are very revealing and need top flight electronics upstream. In my system they are wonderfully coherent, have th... | |
| HELP - Sweet, silky smooth cables: Jena Labs/Jade Yes,I suggest Jena Labs, Kuabala Sosna, and Stealth Audio. | |
| Siltech cables. Help to recognize originals. Elduende,I have also considered Siltech cables. The fact that there are so many counterfeit cables is definitely a turn off. The only information that I can offer is this.1. According to Siltech their cables have a seven digit serial number.2. Sil... | |
| Kimber ks 3033 vs kubala sosna emotion vs... Cardas Golden Reference The warmest cable of the bunch in my opinion. Will have a wide bandwidth and will have great depth and presence. It's midrange is a bit fatter and warmer than most cables. It is a quality that is either loved or hated in my... | |
| Spectral DMA 360 Series 2 with Aerial 20T Carey,Which Avalon model did you hear? Aerial are nice but you may want to try a B&W 800 Diamond series.YMMV | |
| Enterprise hard drives As a previous user of a non enterprise hard drive I would seriously consider one if you are not running a RAID setup without a backup. In fact I would consider it a must. Now if you purchase a Qnap, Synology, Buffalo Technologies etc.. external NA... | |
| MSB DAC IV Rockit,I own a DAC IV Signature. It has put an end to the merry go round of source units as now I have no need to upgrade my Digital source. You should give it a listen. I Highly recommmend you hear it with a MSB trasport however. | |
| Best Server - Mac Mini or Laptop Or ? Steve,Which 2009 model are you referring to? MC238LLA or MC239LLA or other? | |
| J River Vs. Media Monkey Do they sound different Cereb,What encoder were you using. I have a PC and have tried most programs for PC. I find foobar the best player followed by J River. I use DB Poweramp to rip my discs to WAV format. I feel it is the best to my ears in my rig. I could not get Med... | |
| Mini Mac, Sonos and NAS HELP Here you go cut and pasted from Emprical Audio Website:General RecommendationsRip to WAV or AIFF files if possible Try Upsampling 44.1 files to 24/96 using S/W programs: SRC, iTunes, R8Brain or Adobe Audition - Wave Editor on Mac (Instructions are... | |
| question about EMM CounterpointsCDSA is a one box player CDSD is a transport alone.You may want to look into a EMM labs MA-1, which is a DAC that will handle USB input and a transport.Johnny | |
| DAC msb Rtilden,No I have not compared the two. You may want to try this guy and see what he will sell one to you for.http://value-audio.com/home.htm | |
| DAC msb Rtilden,Sorry if I did not elaborate. I was considering selling my MSB DAC 4 when I lost my job. I am not considering selling it any longer. I have not heard the Berkely Alpha DAC series 2. I did own a Berkeley Alpha prior to owning the MSB Signat... | |
| DAC msb Ciro,Sorry to hear that you are selling your MSB DAC 4. I was considering selling mine and the DAC's I was considering were the following in no particular order.1. Eastern Electric DAC Plus2. Weiss DAC 2023. Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 24. Lampizator... | |
| Amarra 2.3.2 vs Puremusic 1.82 playback software I use Amarra in both configurations. Playlist mode does sound noticeably better, but memory mode sounds great as well. All sonic comparisons were in memory mode linked to Itunes. Sonicstudio is running a special on Amarra 2.3 for $495.00 until Dec... |