i don't think volume leveling is happening... some recordings are a lot louder than others.

I think ur missing the point. You can't prove subjective opinion. I'm not thinking about this test to satisy my own opinion about cables. Some people say they hear a difference, some don't and say the people who think they hear a difference are just suffering from a placebo effect. One...

huh? how will ripping cd's let u test the effect of power cables and interconnects?

So there's a lot of dabate about whether cables make a difference. And whether more expensive cables make a difference. Why rely just on the ABX testing to figure it out? I'm sure everyone's thought of it before, and that there's a flaw in my thinking, but.... why don't people just get a good...

I've read all those arguments too. well if you want to get into that there's also people who think there should be no difference b/w amplifiers. According to some ABX testing people haven't been able to tell the difference. DO you believe that too? I know that with my speakers, which buzz at...

Right now i use biwired monster unity audio speaker cables (http://www.ozenterprises.net/_unity/monsterlink.htm) to connect my Apogee Stage speakers to my Krell 400xi. I'm considering getting another set of speaker cables to increase my guage, but i would need something like the Vampire SB...

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/rev...stem-for-ipod/ Sonically it's a disappointment.

In the Macworld podcast (http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mwpo...t30/index.php), an editor who sounds like an audiophile says his initial impression is that the ipod hifi does have distortion, doesn't separate, has a flat mid range and low bass. No real soundscape. THere are better options...

Interesting.. thank's for all your opinions guys. For the record here's my system: -Krell 400xi integrated amp -Musical Fidelity A3.24 DAC fed from RME sound card in htpc via glass optical cable. -Apogee Stage ribbon speakers My cables right now are monster 12 guage speaker cables and...

Please no cables are snake oil posts. For the believers, how would u rank which cable has the most significant impact on sound. eg.) 1. speaker cable 2. interconnect 3. power cables

Seems like a lot of u are confusing a bad recording with "bad" music. A bad recording has no relflection of the music.. it's based on the actual recording. Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone.. great music that's not recorded well. Also, source isn't the end of the reproduction.. it's...

I was thinking the same thing, especially since i was using the same media player too (MCE). Quote: Originally Posted by Garbz Unless you fouled up the ripping this is impossible. CDROM audio is normally buffered briefly before being outputted meaning that the jitter characteristics...

I'm posting in this part of the forum cause i wanted to hear from the cdp proponets as well.... I am a high proponet of lossless music. I have an almost silent pc with an RME sound card outputed via glass optical to a Musical Fidelity DAC a3.24 going out to my Krell 400xi to my Apogee Stage...

rocktboy, i'm not saying that they'll fail at the same time. I'm saying that if u have both a primary hd, and a back hd on all the time, and after say 5 years one of them fail. Well, can u really trust the other one lasting another 5 years? Y bother having both at the same time? Just let one...

backing up 160gb of songs on dvd's? nah.