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1972, not the best year but a few gems...   Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Nick Drake - Pink Moon  

Quote: Not IMHO...   Beastie Boys - Check Your Head Helmet - Meantime Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Sonic Youth - Dirty Tool - Opiate R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

I suggest you get the HD650 and the best USB DAC/amp you can afford. I would expect a DAC/amp in the $300 range to be more than satisfactory. Maybe a Fubar III or something. With all due respect to the friendly, knowledgeable, and well intentioned people around here, it is easy for an...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pageygeeza I think it might just be me being too fussy. If it says it doesn't match up with what's in the database, then I assume it's unusable. I usually read in the order: Paranoid > Secure > Burst. I've also noticed a lot of CD's, the last track at the end...

At the risk of asking the obvious: Do you have EAC in 'secure' or 'paranoid' mode? If so, put it in the mode where it does not do error checking. (I think it is called 'Burst Mode', but I don't have the software installed any more so I'm not sure.) You'd obviously be losing the error correction...

It also might be EQ. Sometimes those "Bass Boost" settings are enough to push the signal into clipping.

Yeah, it's unlikely that a bad rip would cause distortion like that. Like those guys ^^ said, it's probably in the original recording.

Quote: Originally Posted by Drag0n Help!!! Im being held captive by Best Buy!!!! Just buy the Monster HDMI cable and they'll let you out.

You guys must have some amazing luck. I've made dozens of trips to thrift stores and have never seen anything better than the occasional trashed 1985 Magnavox tape deck for $40. Often there's some good vinyl, though, so I keep going.

No. That's a line out adapter only. It allows you to bypass the internal iPod amplifier so you can connect the iPod to an external amp. You might be able to physically plug in your headphones, but the line out is not going to have anywhere near enough power to drive them.

Quote: Originally Posted by Shizdan Also I ripped the CD to 24 Bit. Is that an advantage over ripping to 16 bit? No, not from a CD. CDs are only 16 bits, so you aren't adding any actual dynamic range this way. You should encode CD audio at 16 bits.

Quote: Originally Posted by Shizdan I just wasn't sure. Since my files are the smallest size that I'd be loosing quality. Nope, you're good. The only real price of greater compression is the increased time it takes to compress the files. Regardless of the compression level, the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shizdan So are my "The Wall Remastered" files the best that they can be at level 8? If, by "best", you mean "smallest", then yes. If you're worried about sound quality, don't be -- FLAC is lossless at all compression levels.

That sounds about right. The bit rate is post compression, i.e., the compressed file size divided by the track length.

Quote: Originally Posted by Head_case It's not actually that difficult with the CM-01. Maybe this image shows how to turn it on and off better? Because the platter is clear acrylic, maybe the dimensions/space between the tone arm and platter don't come across as well: Ah, OK. It...