Why is it that one person dominates this thread with continuous talk about coffee and sometimes opera? I think it's incredibly selfish and rude to take over this thread. I've been reading this thread and Jason's since the beginning. I sometimes don't read this one for months at a time because...

I hear the same thing you hear in those songs. You should expect these kinds of problems with highly processed sources like this. They both have TONS of high frequency content, plus lots of digital processing on top of it. It's hard to say exactly what caused the clicks in these videos, but I...

An XLR has 3 pins: Signal +, Signal -, and Ground. If you only have Signal + and Ground, you still have a usable connection. It won't be balanced, it will be signal ended (SE). Thus an XLR connector can carry a Single Ended signal. You could also use Signal - and Ground instead. I'm pretty...

This chapter was fun to read, much like a lot of the other "story of how the product came to be" chapters. I really enjoy the technical details. Thanks. You seem to have a small mistake though, if I'm not mistaken myself: Only the Freya has the solid state option right? Saga is passive or...

^ As far as I can tell, the knob on my Magni 2 is plastic coated in aluminum. I've done some minor mods to it, so I'm dead certain that it's coated in metal; pretty sure it's aluminum. So it shouldn't be tarnished, as aluminum only oxidizes (turns white). Try cleaning it off with something...

The advice in the Word document (which is a terrible way to write up these kinds of things BTW), seems mostly fine. But it's kinda funny that he makes a point of making sure volume is disabled, so it can't affect the signal. But then he tells you to use the parametric EQ to tame the highs in...

I suspect there's something wrong with your CD drive, or perhaps with your configuration of XLD. I've had XLD hang for a long time on really badly scratched CDs. Some of these took an hour or more. This wasn't very surprising because the CDs had bad damage. I was always able to kill XLD if I...

No there isn't. JRiver has discussed it's ongoing development of a stand alone Android player, but no real progress has been announced. When I asked about it recently, they said they had nothing to report. Maybe at some point we'll see an Android player; but I don't expect it any time soon. I...

This is either due to defects on the discs in question or a defect in your drive. I've ripped hundreds of CDs with XLD. The only ones I've had trouble with had obvious scratches, holes, or other damage to the CD surface. This is not a good idea if you are interested in an accurate, error free...

DVD-AE can help with this if all you really want is the audio. But if you have concert DVDs, why not rip them as video/audio together, so you can enjoy the concert footage at the same time? I've done this with numerous concerts and am able to watch these with the same convenience as all of my...

No one here has offered any evidence at all that there's a difference in sound between competing lossless formats. Why would there be? The various points about "timing" and "processing" are ill informed and are like someone saying that the wax you use on your car make a HUGE difference in how...

Your ALACs are "the same quality as the CDs". The ALACs contain 100% of the digital audio data that was on the CD. If you convert to AIFF you will have *exactly* the same digital audio data. Some people believe that all kinds of things improve sound quality. Some believe that pebbles placed...

ALAC and AIFF are both lossless formats. So conversion from one to the other (and even back again) will yield the same audio data. So they should sound identical. CDs don't store AIFFs, but I sort of understand what you mean. When you rip a CD losslessly, you pull all of the PCM data from the...

My workflow includes several external hard drives, as noted. Anywhere I use an external hard drive, you can substitute NAS instead. JRMC can work with NAS almost identically to local hard drives. There are a few details that are different, but it's largely the same thing. I have no experience...

I don't follow your exact ideas and requirements. But I'm going to briefly describe my setup which might be applicable to some of your needs and desires. I use a laptop with a 500 GB internal drive. I have several large external drives. For portables, I have a few, but they can all be accessed...