also, any good recomendations for diy amps or some relatively cheap used amps for my needs (about 200)

I am interested in building a DIY amp; but not sure on what I need (specifications of the amp to build): I have 4 bookshelves and a powered subwoofer (10") what is the watt rec.? If I build a sweet amp but then route take the signal to a powered sub...then to the speakers would that...

So are you guys saying for the most part "3-way" isnt the way to go, and I would be better off going with 2 more bookshelves and a sub? (I willl end up spending more than 100 obviously) is 2 bookshelves and sub the way to go no matter how much I want to spend?

allright I wont get those i suppose, the reason I am looking into 3-ways is currently I am rocking some DYI dayton BR-1's (pretty good reviews for bookshelves), and I am looking for a little more bass and some more power, So a pair of 3-ways would do the trick, maybe ill look for a dedicated sub...

thinking of buying a pair off craigs, they are 3-way 200watt, the specific model is: Technics SB-LX70, i couldnt find much online about them, im looking for quality pair, not just loudness (clear full sound, as close to hifi as I can get with a pair of 3-ways for around 100 used, any suggestions...

one more thing, if I was to play a song with another program it will not be bit perfect because it doesnt have the plugin correct? or will nothing play because it cannot communicate with the asio format? if I disable the asio4all will the other program then work, thanks again

got it to work, so since foobar played the dts file great it is safe to assume that my music will be bit perfect playing through foobar? thanks for your help, im pretty pumped about this

also if it helps I have a P4 2.0ghz with 512 of ram, this is a little low so do I need to mess with all the buffers (there are several places on asio4all and foobar to do this, what should I set them to?) thanks again

After endless research with the search function I still cannot figure this out... I have a USB Dac (Silverstone EB01) (no driver, xp pics it up automatically) and I am trying to get asio to work, I did the whole walkthrough from this site and everything seemed to go fine (it showed up on...

I turned the volume down completely and still get this, I have a silverstone EB01 usb dac, how would I still get this if it is external, should I dissable onboard sound anyway? Is this a sign that when I am playing music the sound quality is no better than what it was when I was using on board?

also is it a waste of time running asio with say 192mb quality sound files? or is the resampling have its effect no matter what?

I have spent so much time and energy on my comp as source setup dealing with asio etc. It would be very appreciated if someone could enlighten me on a couple things: I have a silverstone eb01 usb dac, and use about 192/256 size music files (mp3 and aac). I have heard things about how usb dacs...

and can get bit perfect etc

would this setup be better than just getting an edirol 1ex?

if I were to use a computer as my source into a usb dedicated DAC like the ones on this list (http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162717) then use a 1/4" to RCA adaptor for headphone use would this be allright (as well as the rca out to my amp). Or is there something wrong with this...