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| which speaker cables to buy? Take a look at the Supra offering - there are a number of choices, They usually advertise on the Gon so easy to find. I built a set of cables using their Ply 3.4 and then covered them with black Techflex. They look very nice - in fact you basicall... | |
| American made USB DAC's Sbank -I have owned a TriVista fully modded by Parts Connexion, a Brick and a Cosecant Silver. They are all excellent. With the right SPDIF cable the TriVista certainly held its own and may have bettered the old (pre-asynch) Brick. I had sold the ... | |
| Valab DAC Question Sorry - I don't think that there is a way around it - I was hoping to A/B two different USB DACs - that's when I figured it outEvery multi-input DAC I have ever had gives preference to one input - in some cases you need to throw a switch, in other... | |
| American made USB DAC's At a bit lower price point is Scott Nixon - one of the first to build a USB DAC. He has a new line out. | |
| Help - Mac Mini not sending audio via usb port Altrnatively, find the Audio MIDI Setup panel and put a copy in your Dock. You can select the Output directly from it. Note that the USB driver will not appear until the USB device is plugged in and on. | |
| Valab DAC Question Yes - that is the case on my and probably all Macs.When you select the USB driver in the Audio MIDI Setup tool, you turn off the native "Built-In Audio" output which is what feeds the optical output.FWIW I believe that the Valab prioritizes the US... | |
| Speaker recommendations Let me put in a plug for as much Meadowlark as you can find for the budget. I own the Kestrel HotRods - bought them here for $625 when I downsized to reallocate to my home theater rig.Time-aligned drivers, first order crossovers, and transmission ... | |
| Recommendations - DAC $500 w/ USB Consider the Taiwanese units - Valab at $200 shipped, Keces at $275 and various Paradisea units from $350 on upAll offer unbeatable price performance ratios | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana - I have been at this for five years now - in that time I found one SPDIF I liked - it was $350 used for 1 meter - the old Stealth VaridigI have helped an awful lot of people figure this out - literally hundreds of posts here and hundreds mor... | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana - I don't want to get in a pissing match here and as long as you are happy, that's all that matters. BUT for the newbs out there, please consider these quotes from the Analog Research website - or should I say sales pitch:...when it comes to ... | |
| Squeze Box Question Kana -Bluejean delivers great value for the money. And I suspect they will build you a real 75ohm cable.That said, no one runs SPDIF that far - the implementation at both ends would have to be near perfect. Once you get into the fact that there is... | |
| Squeze Box Question Wayne -There is an old phrase, horses for courses. The bottom line is you don't need a Squeezebox unless you want music where you don't have a computer.As I tried to point out in my first post, all computer audio works basically the same but there... | |
| Best Diana Krall album...........is??? So here we go - her new album "Quiet Nights" arrived from Amazon today.As the title suggests, this is a very soft album with an eclectic, mostly lackluster set of chestnuts (gee that was fun to write). According to the official blurb site:"...The ... | |
| Squeze Box Question Swanny - I hope that you are giving serious consideration to a Mac... what you want is what they are built to do. If you haven't you owe it to yourself to go to your nearest Apple store and spend some time at the Genius Bar. | |
| Squeze Box Question For me definitely. For you? IMHO probablyOn the whole, most people will agree that a hard drive based transport will out perform all but the very best CD transports. While the devil is in the details, all computer based systems basically work the ... |