This is one of the best things I've read on Head-Fi. Thanks for sharing this with the community, Jason. I'm eagerly awaiting the next chapters. :D

Yeah why the change? Put it back where it was IMO.

Definitely the SRM-717 if you can find one.

Aye, that is one hell of a sexy setup El_Doug, congrats!

58,374 songs in my music library. Mostly my own lossless CD rips plus some hi-res downloads.

No. I use both and they sound exactly the same to me.

TweekGeek carries it as well: http://www.tweekgeek.com/hiface-two/ same price.

You don't really need EAC but I prefer it for all my ripping and encoding purposes. I've used many other rippers/encoders and some have been good but I don't have the confidence in them that I have with EAC for providing an 'exact' copy.   Foobar2k is very simple to use. You can literally...

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Another option to consider is the Ayon Skylla II. Definitely over your stated budget but they do pop up for less than MSRP on Agon every once in a while.

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That's great and all but is it really necessary to make the arrangements for pickup in this thread? Stuff like that is better kept to email/PM's.

Thanks for posting this. Winamp was always my preferred music player but I had to swap to Foobar2000 with my current setup. Will definitely try this when I get home.

Thanks for the update Justin.

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