devilboy
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| heard Melody Gardot? Me too Donjr. I can't believe I haven't listened to her new album yet. I have no time as I've been working a lot lately so some of her concert will be completely new, which is cool. | |
| Metrum Octave versus Eastern Electric DAC Eugene81: I'm running PureMusic. Is buffer size controlled/changed in iTunes or in PureMusic? I assume PureMusic? | |
| Metrum Octave versus Eastern Electric DAC Eugene81: Forgive me if you've already mentioned this, but what USB/spdif converter are you using? I had the Mach2Music HiFace2 but ultimately returned it because I was getting "clicks and pops" during playback. According to the advice of some mem... | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Almarg: Thanks again but I couldn't find anything. I'm using PurMusic for playback. I went through PureMusic's menus in "preferences" and couldn't find anything about buffer size. I'm not that knowledgeable about computers and software. I don't wa... | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Thanks Almarg, but the same thing happened. Nothing but blank pages. I have a Mac. I don't know if that has anything to do with my inability to view the pages. Also, I sent an email to Mach2Music a few months ago. After a couple of months they fin... | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Audioengr: I never received instructions for the HiFace2. When I tried to download the owner's manual, every page was blank. Do you know how to do it? | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System LOL! Very funny. | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Audioengr: INSTRUCTIONS?!?!? INSTRUCTIONS?!?!? Are you kidding me? Mach2Music is without a doubt the most user UN-friendly company I've ever dealt with. There were no instructions with my converter. Also, emails take months, yes, MONTHS to get res... | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Bhobba: I purchased a Metrum Octave a while back and love it. I am running Pure Music in my Mac Mini. I purchased a Mach2Music HiFace 2 USB/spdif converter. While playing music into the HiFace 2, I would here "clicks" and "pops" during playback. I... | |
| Just starting out Good news is the input voltage sensitivity of the sim is 490mv, so it only needs about a half of a volt to play at full power. If you get the dac and integrated you are interested in, you should be in good shape.....as long as you don't change the... | |
| Just starting out Although I don't know the output voltage sensitivity of the dac, I think the main issue is the sim's input impedance. 23,700 is waaaaay low. Personally I would avoid it. YMMV. | |
| Just starting out Well, first of all, the input impedance of the sim is a VERY low 23,700 ohms. Personally, I wouldn't buy it based on just that spec alone. Even if your dac has a low output impedance, it kind of paints you into a corner acoustically. Meaning, if y... | |
| Just starting out Unless the integrated has a passive preamp section, incoming voltage, 2V,3V, etc, shouldn't be a factor since the preamp section usually would be active. You should note, however, the input impedance of the integrated. Incoming and outgoing impeda... | |
| Budget vacuum tube preamp? I agree. IMO, amplifer/speaker matching is the most important part of an audio system. | |
| Just starting out Passive preamps don't have a gain stage. The only voltage driving the amp will come from the cd player or dac above the preamp. Make sure the input voltage sensitivity of the amp is less than or equal to the output voltage of the cdp or dac or els... |