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| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? BTW - I looked at the Cool Copy. I cannot believe that you will get decent copies at 52X write speed. All of the copiers that sound good IMO use much lower speed, usually 1X. | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? TBG - The Mitsui's are designed for archiving.The cleaner/treatment will be reviewed in the near future when I am ready to start selling it. I will be providing the reviewers multiple CD-R disks rewritten and treated with all products currently av... | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? MikeLavigne - I was involved in the shootout at CES. The RC provides a real improvement, but so does my rewriting system, which I call the CD Tune-up. I am using a modified Yamaha writer that has low-jitter modified Superclock and battery power. I... | |
| Can a PC match the quality of the best CD players? "How can a PC compete when you're stuck buying consumer grade CD burners, power supplies, motherboards etc.? Even if they are the most expensive that you can find. Is there a way to build a PC that rivals a $5,000 CD player?"Certainly, infact, it ... | |
| Record LP's on to Laptop The best quality result will be with a Mytek 24/96 A/D converter and then a S/PDIF to USB converter to the computer. | |
| CEC Transport Upgrades? Empirical Audio also does CEC Transport mods, including Superclock. | |
| Is iPod Digital Output Possible? The iPod could probably be modded to bring-out a digital interface. I2S is probably available in there, but not S/PDIF, so a chip would have to be added to get S/PDIF. If it is too tight, the chip may not fit.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer/mo... | |
| SEEKING A QUALITY CDR A good unit is the Yamaha CRW-F1-UX. Use Mitsui Gold media.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer/modder | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Kenn39 wrote:I was afraid of the word "iTunes". On a WinPC, Foobar2000 gives better sound than iTunes in my opinion.This is because iTunes on PC does not bypass Kmixer. With Foobar2000, you can usually find an ASIO plug-in that will do this.Again,... | |
| Considerations when choosing a DAC? On a budget, probably a dAck!2 and a decent S/PDIF cable, like the Apogee Wyde Eye. | |
| Which way to go? Airport Express or USB interface If you are using a Northstar DAC, you should try an Empirical Audio Off-Ramp I2S. This is a USB to I2S converter. Simplest way to get data and clock to the DAC chip. The RJ-45 connector should be compatible. Do you want to be the guinea pig? | |
| Which CD/r are best for audio recording? Some Melody Black Diamond disks are great, and the Mitsui Gold professional and archive versions designed for low speed. | |
| Your Preference U24, Xitel, M-Audio or Edirol ??? Hagerman does not provide a PC driver. If you are using a MAC, then it should work well. | |
| DAC choice advice - hard-drive based system Sixstring - just dont buy an older Benchmark. It wont sound the same. | |
| DAC choice advice - hard-drive based system I've listened to a few DACS in my system, both modded and unmodded:1) Dodson 2172) Benchmark DAC-13) Perpetual P-3A and P-1A4) dAck! version 1 and 25) Bel Canto DAC26) Electrocompaniet ECD-17) Birdland Odeon-lite8) Van Alstine9) MSB Gold10) AudioN... |