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| Wyred Dacs--Thoughts? fyi... they started shipping the DAC-2 late last week. | |
| An indoor FM tuner better than the Terk FM+? I built one based on this design...http://www.wryr.org/Antenna_instructions.pdfIt works great. It's not directional. The design is intended for the public radio end of the FM spectrum. | |
| The truth about Apple/iTunes volume control? I had an overloading issue for a while. I suspected that my Lite DAC-AH was sending too much signal to my pre. I blamed the DAC. For a while I adjusted my iTunes volume down a bit and it went away. But then it came back a few months later. What it... | |
| Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server So I installed a WD Green Caviar 1.5TB drive in an EZQuest enclosure. The enclosure doesn't have a fan so it doesn't contribute to noise, but doesn't do much to absorb noise from the drive. During operation it's O.K. and the drive makes too much n... | |
| Best blues vocalist 1. torn between Billie & Big Mamma2. Junior Wells3. contemporary... can't pick anyone who'd be labeled as blues, but Marianne Faithful, Beth Gibbons, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Ted Hawkins. okay okay. enough the award goes to Lucinda Williams. | |
| any reasons NOT to buy a peachtree nova? I heard Peachtree was working on a DAC/Pre-Amp sans amplifier. Emailed them to ask if it was true but they didn't get back to me. | |
| Beatles Remasters on USB Drive and Vinyl Anybody with a 24bit DAC listening to tracks off the Beatles USB Apple? | |
| Mac Mini A lot of talk about the D/A process is jitter. Does excessive vibration contribute at all to jitter? I don't know a lot of the subject, but there are a lot of guys on Agon who are obsessed with isolation and vibration. I have my DirecTV receiver, ... | |
| Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server I've read a lot over at computeraudiophile but there's nothing about measured noise and little anecdotal info about quiet Firewire drives. there is a website that fastidiously rates computer equipment for noise, but they don't test external enclos... | |
| Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server I wish I could put my DirecTV receiver and computer stuff in another room, but there's no space. I'm also in a 1 bedroom set-up. And even with Wireless-N running I still get weird dropouts now and again due to the fact that there's at least 8 othe... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? The specs on the Wyred Dac says it'll have 24 bit USB. | |
| More Beatles - 24bit 44k - official offerings I guess i never put much thought into the tech besides bigger numbers are better. Here's something I found in a search..."The amplitude of each sample is a numeric value that is represented by a certain number of bits. The more bits that are used ... | |
| Controlling iTunes on a MacMini from a MacBook With Leopard and Snow Leopard you just turn on Screening Sharing in the Sharing section of the System Preferences on the Mac Mini. Then you just connect to the mini in the Finder by clicking on the icon on the left then clicking the Screen Sharing... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? I read a comment that said the Xciter DAC's USB input was only 16-bit. Any knowledge about this out there? | |
| Apple TV vs Wadia 170i? I use a MacMini with an external terrabyte drive. I go Lossless out the optical port. I also use it for DVDs, Netflix streaming, Pandora radio, my Time Machine back up of my laptop. It's easy to control iTunes from my laptop or using the Apple rem... |