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| Best sonics/music on CD Fair enough Warren. I hear you, but don't necessarily have the same experience (obviously)...whatever will be, will be... I tried a few other Holly Cole CD's and could not connect with any of them as I did with this one. Nor did any of the others ... | |
| Best sonics/music on CD Marco, I love Temptation by Holly Cole, but the recording just doesn't hold up with time: sound wise.Not audiophile level for these ears, but the music reins, no matter.... :) One word for you my friend: Q-Tips...or is that two words? Jeez Warren,... | |
| Best sonics/music on CD Temptation, Holly ColeEl Cant Del Sibil La, Montserrat Figueras, Jordi SavallLe Pas du Chat Noir, Anuoar BrahemMany more but these are three I never tire of. Howard, are you saying "Sweeter than the Day" is like Le Pas? If so, I'll be looking for ... | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 Were you permitted conjugals with your hard drive? All's I know is I've had one go down on me, and nothing else feels quite like it.....and that's why they call them "gagabytes"Marco | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 I did something like what you are suggesting, but I did keep most of my collection in case of failure. I burned to two separate hard drives and backed up additionally on DVD's. The latter is a bit of a PITA, but makes for added piece of mind. Yeah... | |
| Ipod to Digital Out I seem to recall a review in either Stereophile or TAS where they put three iPod mini-systems through the paces and the iDeck was one of them. I could swear they cited the same specification and that it succeeded because it used its very own (supe... | |
| Speakers for large open room Loveswhatkindofmusic? Budget? Rest of system?For my own tastes vintage Klipsch LaScalas or Khorns (if you have the corners) make me very happy paired off with the right amp(s). LaScalas worked brilliantly for me with 8 watts of SET in my studio wh... | |
| What should be the first component when upgrading? I don't know that I am steadfast in that sense, because overall I think 'balance'in the chain, though if pressed I'd say source. The reason for the source-first camp is the old adage; garbage in = garbage out. If you start with garbage as the sour... | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions I withdraw my suggestion.Jax2, Boa2 and Undertow have all been around this block, and they know what they're talking about.I thought yours was a good point as well Grant. If I were to point to any tube amps for Rock I'd think about a KT88 amp in P... | |
| Unison Unico SE noise Sounds like the preamp tube may have gone bad (staticky crackily noise would indicate a tube problem). If you have access to a tester, try testing it. If not, you may want to just replace it and see if that solves the problem. Marco | |
| Ipod to Digital Out and it does appear like the Monitor Audio unit takes digital out of the ipod.I don't know; I seem to recall that Vinnie was very skeptical as to how they might achieve that, and why more companies do not do the same thing. You might write to him i... | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions IMO you'll get more bang for the buck swapping out your front-end (CD Player), and or speakers first (there is currently a thread on this subject with associated hot debates (which I won't revisit)here. That said, if you are listening to 80% rock ... | |
| Ipod to Digital Out Hey Peter - According to Vinnie at Red Wine Audio there is no SPDIF tap within the iPod. I asked him this same question at someone elses suggestion when I started a similar thread. He does some kind of modifications to the line stage of the ipod. ... | |
| turntable stand, steel, aluminum,shelves of ? I just happen to own an isolation table that would seem to resemble what you are describing. I used to use it for my own front end and it did a fine job, but I can't say I did any critical comparisons to back up that impression. Regardless, mine i... | |
| What should be the first component when upgrading? Absolutely...front end first. There's nothing wrong with running a hard-drive based system though, so your Powerbook is a good start if you already have your library on iTunes (forget about the iPod as you'll be limited to the internal DAC there a... |