peter_s
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| HELP Maggie 3.6 bi amping Should make a big difference. External Xover a must! Could try Bryston or Pass, or Marchand (just OK), or get a custom one built by Tom Tutay (highly recommended). Try a Bryston 4B-ST for the lower end. | |
| Ayre v-5xe or parasound jc-1’s? I've also had both amps, and infinitely preferred the Ayre. Compared to the Ayre, the Parasound just sounded flat and uninteresting to me. I listened to it on multiple speakers. The Parasound I'm sure pushes out more bass, but to my ear that's the... | |
| The truth about Apple/iTunes volume control? I'm also thinking it's not your USB signal, but instead either a problem with your DAC or your DAC=>preamp compatibility. | |
| Uncompressed PC to Compressed iPod? This is interesting. Just found this on "Doug's Scripts", which is only usable on macs:Lossless to AAC Workflow v2.1 Two scripts assist with importing/managing Apple Lossless audio files and sending converted AAC copies to a mounted iPod set to "m... | |
| Uncompressed PC to Compressed iPod? You can do the same thing with itunes, pretty much. Create a new "media folder", change your default format to mp3, select a bunch of songs, tell itunes to convert to mp3. The songs will be in your new folder. If you don't want them cluttering up ... | |
| Uncompressed PC to Compressed iPod? I too would love to know if there's a way to have itunes convert to lower resolution files on the fly, as it ports songs over to your ipod. It would take more time, but wouldn't require the file management hassles of making low res copies, moving ... | |
| Modwright 36.5 v McIntosh C2300 preamp I agree about the synergy b/t Modwright amplifiers and preamps. I've had both the above mentioned in my system and they were both very good individually, but put together, they became excellent. Very complimentary. | |
| Output Impedance of Hovland HP-100? I spoke with Alex at Hovland a couple years ago, and got the following information about amplifier compatability with a long cable run:Output impedance of preamp is 2500 ohms has a unit gain FET at the output to help drive long cables. Long cabl... | |
| Shorten those lengthy power cords? If these are just standard computer iec cords, nothing special, it may not matter what plug you put on them. If you plan on doing DIY later down the road and making some better cords, go ahead and buy the expensive plugs - you can always use them ... | |
| The scoop on itunes artwork 1024 kb per mb40 kb per 300x300 image7 mb typical mp3 song0.6% increase in storage per mp3 song300 mb per typical alac album30 mb per typical alac song0.13% increase in storage per alac song550 mb per typical aiff album55 mb per typical aiff song0... | |
| The scoop on itunes artwork Sounds like it should work well for populating artwork for the squeeze system. I looked around on the web - it's not very well documented, so I guess you just have to run it to try it out. I assume that it works independently of itunes, and doesn'... | |
| The scoop on itunes artwork Perrew - thanks for the input. Does the automatically downloaded artwork replace the associations itunes has already made? I've read about some automatic programs replacing higher quality images with low quality or wrong images, without giving the... | |
| The scoop on itunes artwork For those interested, there is definitely something different about how itunes handles aiff artwork. For all other formats, I see itunes updating the artwork song by song, and it takes a little while. For aiff it does it immediately, no song-by-so... | |
| The scoop on itunes artwork By the way, if anyone has any tips on bringing artwork into the squeeze system software, please let us know!!! | |
| The 1.6 Maggies - any thoughts on best amp? BTW - how do you like the Rogue 66? I liked it better than a 99 magnum - seems like it doesn't impose much on the music (a good thing). |