Purple Angel- Thanks for setting me straight on the Mac>Bifrost cable.   MVRK- Thanks for the DYI tip...I like the idea of DYI, but don't have the time to allocate for DYI'ing.   Flatmap & DavidSH- I know that Head-Fi is a headphones website, but I don't want a headphone amp. I wasn't even...

Billy Bob- Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that the free version of Pandora was poorer audio quality. Duh! To be clear, I'm very happy with the way my cd player sounds with my amp & speakers. Thanks again for telling me about the 64k rate. It's appreciated.   Purple Angel- thanks for the...

Hi   My wife likes to listen to Pandora, so I plugged her Macbook into my Musical Fidelity X150 amp via a cheap cable. Now I'm realizing that I'll have to listen to it more than expected, and I hate the way it makes my Gradient Preludes  sound so flat & dull. So now I'm thinking of getting a...