Wow, you have a tight space there. A square is the worst shape for a listening room, and a small one is even tougher. I have to guess you have a large standing wave that is giving you fits. My have to throw in the towel and go with phones. Also looks like a shelf right above the speakers that...

Anyone have any listening impressions to share?

Quote: Originally Posted by Hatmann Try Audioengine's stands for their A2s -- they really work. I started by using door stops, Audioengine wants $30 for fancy ones, and they really did help. Maybe these on top of a true stand would create the correct angle. I think the...

Quote: Originally Posted by ElephantTLK They will not be angled anymore and i really dont know what would be right height. Anyway i was thinking to create stands that would look like this: 1 2 3 What do you think? I think you are on the right track. A 4x4...

Anyone?

"What should my signal path be?" As simple as possible if quality is your goal. "in parallel CDP>viaSPDIF coax > to DACMagic" Not sure what the statement 'in parallel' means here. As El_Doug said, simplify the system to only the essentials, then listen. No extra splitters, amps or sound...

You say you do not want to buy another active speaker but you are considering the M-Audio AV 40's? What is the quality of the music files? A2's sound pretty good straight out of a sound card, maybe start here and see what you think or the M-Audio's. May want to add the Musicstreamer to...

Quote: Originally Posted by davidc2 I thought USB gave less satisfactory sound quality than a proper digital Spdif coax or Toslink connection. Try USB and listen for your self. Trust your ears.

Hard to find a lot on it but the Musicstreamer+ looks like a contender.

How can it sound better? Bits are bits. Cables all sound the same. I glad you tried something and you heard a difference.

I think USB would make the most sense as it is so prevalent. Not trying to avoid USB, trying to eliminate the USB wire. Less there to create issues. No computer, no USB cable and no spinning disc. This was brought up to see if such a product exists or to create a discussion as to an ideal...

I have read conflicting info on the Wadia as to whether it bypasses the internal DAC and the analogue sections. Seems like this unit should be a DAC itself though. The iRiver units seem interesting but has more features than needed and has an actual HDD instead of using flash storage. I think...

Just trying to think of ways to get a quality flow of 1's and 0's to a DAC. As the computer seems to be the storage for music, how do we cleanly get the digital signal to a DAC. The computer to USB to DAC seems to be convenient but flawed. Why are there no reasonably priced iPod type devices...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamiefhr AFAIK the A2 are an active set of speakers that doesn't need an amp so does it mean that the DAC doesn't have to be powered as well? I'm just a noob at this. Really learning as I go along. How the DAC is powered does not effect if or how...

Anything more on these 2 units?