I use Foobar for FLAC and other lossless formats and iTunes for MP3's. So do my kids and my wife. And since a while it all is on a QNAP TS412 NAS (4x2Tb). All the iTunes instalations can handle it perfectly. The Qnap has an embedded Twonky audio streaming service. It works, as long as I don't...

Today I pre-ordered a Simple Audio Roomplayer 1. That is a streaming audio player with a 50W amp. I don't think I will use the amp, so I could have gone for the Roomplayer 2, but then again, it could come in handy. There was a demo of it in a shop nearby - I liked it, so I pre-ordered it. The...

Does anybody know if there are differences between Stepdown trafos (230V 50Hz to 120V 60Hz). I want to use one for a Yamamoto HA02 amp. The 220-100 ones I have are good for Japanese 100V 50/60Hz equipment, but NOT good for US 120V 60Hz equipment. Or is it is possible to rewire the build-in...

Are any of you familiar with The Ondekoza? I have several recordings of them - one of which I would like to ask you an opinion about. On the album The Ondekoza - Devils on Drums (Nektar 680.917 from 1986) I can hear on the first track (Monochrome II) some static in the beginning - the first...