Actually, I lied. I have many bootlegs and many tunes from archive.org. I know it's not so much the quality, but the performance. Yes, I am now using a windows7 platform; tweaked for music. My normal listening is through Foobar, my library manager is MediaMonkey. For whatever reason, I rarely...

Thank you everyone for your help. If the quality isn't that good, perhaps I will give it up. It's borderline if I want to save a good performance and live with sh^^ty quality or forget it. Justin

I did a search, and although many posts came up, I couldn't find an answer. I have ripped DVD-A, SACD, etc., but I cant figure out how to get the songs off of James Blunt Rhapsody Originals Live Performances 350460-2. Can anyone help me? Justin   P.S. I usually use EAC

Thank you Mister-X for the offer. Fortunately, one of my friends woks at a place where they make airplane parts, and his boss soldered it for me. Thanks again for your help.

I can’t remember ever writing a review here, but I just got a Schiit Bifrost Multibit DAC and I love it.  Everything I’m about to say is my personal opinion, so as they say: YMMV.  A little about my background so you can evaluate how much weight to give my opinions.   When I was in college, I...

I purchased a Gamma-2 awhile back. It now intermittently works. It appears the J20 coax in connector on the y1 board is loose. Is there anyone who is willing to resolder/replace and solder a new one? Happy to pay whatever is fair. Thank you for your attention. Justin

The new Amethystium EP Flac download from their website. Pay what you want. Nice.  

Whenever I want to fill up my portable, my music library software converts to mp3 (or whatever I want) on the fly, so I don't keep mp3 copies around to take up space. If most of your listening is casual or iPhone, maybe you could just rip to mp3 only and listen to the cd when you're serious...

I have never heard a BGRP, nor a Mullard. Many of my tubes have been purchased used testing very well, but not NOS. Having lurked here quite awhile and studied the tubes, I took Skylab’s advice and started buying off-brands. My last acquisition was 6 tubes from an old radio hobbyist that I got...

This tube has a date code of 852, which I figured meant the end of 1948 or 1958. I can find no tube resembling this that Sylvania made in 1958, so maybe this is from 1948?

. It appears that an old 3 cell car battery produced about 6.3V (2.1V X 3) and I have found an old tube used in Ford Motor Co. radios that needed 6.3V for the heater. It’s almost totally chromed. Anyone recognize this?     Hint: it’s from our friends at 312. The funny thing is that...

. A 6SN7W and the Donald Fagen Trilogy     =^) .

Quote:   The V-Link is used to convert USB to S/PDIF. It changes the flow control from the computer controlling the flow (possibly with lotsa jitter) to the V-Link controlling it asynchronously (hopefully with much less jitter). It also has a secondary benefit for those with dacs that...

Quote: Perhaps you have replaygain on?

  The year was 1969.   8 Tracks were the mass market music source of choice; cassettes had yet to gain traction. For those of you unfamiliar with an 8 Track, picture a cassette about the size of your hard drive that only held one album’s worth of music. There was a war going on; just like now...

Quote: I have found the same thing. It works with wasapi on Vista/7, but I had to switch back to ASIO4ALL from KS on my XP machine.

So they're both bit perfect; cool. If you don't mind me asking, which program did you use to compare the files? Is it in the public domain?

Good job xnor. Sounds like possibly clipping prevention? MM4 is still in beta. Which version did you test?

Quote: I don't have any Dixie Chicks, but I do have Dixie Chicken (Little Feat). Thank you for reminding me Mr. floydfan33. Cueing it up now boss.  

@maud I have and use foobar. It's a great player. I was merely quoting the foobar people to help the new Head-Fiers. I don't think it's fair to lead them to believe that they're going to hear big radical differences. Look at the first word of foobar's answer. If you hear a difference, well...

NPR has it here

Quote:   Quote: I thought this bold part was the most relevant . . . . lol . I have foobar, mediamonkey and xmplay and can't blindly tell them apart. But then, I don't hear radical differences in cables either.  

Here is a quote from the official Foobar2000 website:   Does Foobar2000 sound better than other players? No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect.............. .