rdc2000
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| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? I resisted cd's for a long time and stuck with vinyl until it started getting really hard to get new releases. Around '94 I broke down and bought a Denon something or other. I was really surprised at how bright and un-enjoyable it sounded. The pla... | |
| Sonos Questions It's not silly to run a Sonos through a dac. Everything has a price. | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? Yes- I physically re-ripped every single cd. | |
| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? You should be able to try it both ways to see what works best. I got into this whole thing by trying airport express. It didn't work in my system, but as others have pointed out, that could be the exception rather than the rule. Try it. If it does... | |
| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? "RDC's experience is atypical"No doubt. Apple wouldn't sell those AE's like popcorn if they didn't work at all. Henry did open the thread with "best sounding music server, regardless of price" I doubt AE, SB3 or Sonos is that. Transporter probably... | |
| Is this a reasonable Audiophile Mac-based Server? That looks like a pretty good set up. I tried airport express in my xp network and it failed miserably. It ended up crashing my entire network and it took days just to get my email back. Apple tech support was stumped. But you shouldn't have that ... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? "In the audiophile world where $80,000 speakers are called bargains and people routinely tout $1k power cords I would think the cost of HDs wouldn't be too much of a factor."Of course there is a lot of truth in that. Those with unlimited budgets c... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? Programmers say quite definitively that AL is the EXACT same file when uncompressed as the "true master". If it sounds different to some, it is either in their head or in the way the gear is decoding the file.And disk space still isn't cheap enoug... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? Wdrazek- I haven't backed up yet. Procrastinating as usual. My drive is less than two months old so that's probably driving my complacency. I have to re-format my old drive to back up the files- hence the laziness...Scrith- thanks for taking that.... | |
| Sonos Questions I got a sonos in October and it has had a bigger impact on my system than any single upgrade I've ever done. And I didn't even get the remote! (I live in a NYC loft so didn't need it.) I just wanted a way to listen to music the way I do on my ipod... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? I'm with the lossless crowd. I just re-ripped from AAC to lossless with hope of never having to do it again. Believe what the experts say about it being true lossless compression. Those who say not to compress are really coming from the "better sa... | |
| Are Rotel amps and preamps any good? My Rotel pre has been exceptional from a quality vs. cost standpoint. It is absolutely dead silent in the system (as is the volume control). Very nice phone stage as well. No repair issues whatsoever. It took a PS Audio PCA-2 at 4 times the price ... |