shadorne
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| What started you on your audiophile journey . Nothing in particular. I just like music. I heavily regret not being a musician. I blame myself as being too lazy as a kid and having music teachers that were so boring and who didn't give a toss about kids. My mistake was getting to heavily into ... | |
| Apple Mac Mini as a music server I feed the DAC1 directly with 24/96 output from the mac mini. This 24/96 output means that my hi-resolution 24/96 files are not downsampled. It also makes no difference to the majority of my lossless collection burned from CD - these are simply up... | |
| Apple Mac Mini as a music server Yes. I am using a mac mini with a Benchmark DAC 1. | |
| If your whole system costs $40,000.... Well Said Macdadtexas. You are absolutely right. Yours is the sensible answer. Players will go the way of VCR's... | |
| Has anyone did a blind test on iTunes AAC vs CD/Lo I'm curious to see if anyone on here, with a really high end system, can tell the difference.You don't need a really high end system (although it helps). You simply need to know what artifacts to listen for. I can hear audio compression on a boom... | |
| Has anyone did a blind test on iTunes AAC vs CD/Lo Yes. You are correct 256 AAC is pretty darn good. | |
| B&W in best buy Most everything is made in China these days. No big deal where it is sold. | |
| Wanted to share with GON members my new "JOB" Terrific. Will you reconsider my 2006 suggestion of adding pics of your system? After all now that you are a journalist perhaps a digital camera is the next upgrade? | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? I don't think any home system is going to really do drums. I mean the REAL THING. If this is true, then why is there so much effort expended on high resolution audio (24 bit) and high quality vinyl if any home system cannot even replicate a drum ... | |
| B&w 803s. Vs nautilus 802 Budt,B&W are tremendously successful. The majority of their designs have a recessed mid range or a smile EQ presentation due to the narrowing (beaming) of the upper mid range. This is caused by having a crossover at 4 KHz on a 6 inch mid range... | |
| B&w 803s. Vs nautilus 802 Stringreen may not like the midrange. The design is definitely a smile EQ type presentation with recessed upper mids and accentuated bass and tweeter. You can see this from Stereophile off axis frequency plots of its successor the 802D. This kind ... | |
| how high is the drop test at ups? My experience with UPS are awful.Fedex are much better. YMMV | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? The Police Certifiable Blu-ray has an alternate angle just on Stewart Copeland for two tracks. Sound quality is good (not great) but it is fun to watch. | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? FWIW: Most drums available on commercial sold music are compressed because most systems can't handle the truth (that includes most systems here too). This is one of the principal reasons recorded music rarely sounds realistic (it lacks the dynamic... | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? Good Sounding Drums:Any Tom Petty albumJim Capaldi sounds great on "Living on the outside"Police (Synchronicity in particular)Harvey Mason on Weekend in LA Live (George Benson)Harvey Mason on Homage to Duke (Dave Grusin)Dennis Chambers on Maceo Pa... |