I am living in a college dorm right now and planning buy a cheap subwoofer for my simple desktop speaker set up. My budget is really low and wondering if there are any decent subwoofers under $100. I am going to use the sub with my stereo reciever . Thanks

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AAC or ALAC- It just all depends on your personal preference. If you want the best sound possible from your rig, then go for the ALAC, but ONLY if you can hear the difference between lossy codecs. ALAC kills the battery reaaaallly fast and fills up the hard drive quickly.(I only have about 150...

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Even if there were slight volume differences, the diference in sound staging was pretty easy to hear, or "feel". If you try to hear or "listen" to the differences it will be much harder to hear the difference, because you're foucsing so much on the sound, not the music. For example, I used Sar...

I used go-vibe mk3 w/ ad8066 through sik din line out.

richard, First I emptied my ipod. Then I ripped songs that I'm really familiar with(probably listened to them over 100 times) to ALAC, AAC 320, and AAC VBR 256. I named the songs with random numbers and letters so that I can't tell which files are which, and loaded them into my pod. Then I...

My portable set up is ipod(4thg)->sik din->go-vibe v3 w/ ad8066->e4, and I can tell the difference between ALAC and AAC 320kb/s. I've spent hours blind testing, and found out that the main differences are: 1. AAC sound more "mellow". The sound lacks dynamic 2. Low bass(-50hz) is a bit rolled...

Instead of using eqs on players, I eq each of my music files. It takes tremendous amount of time but it lets me eq really precisely to the point.

What happened to the ad825 hype that was going on few years ago?

I'm wondering how the dual ad825 and op551's sound? Any comments on those two chips?

Some say that AIFF/WAV is more battery life friendly than lossless because it requires less CPU cycle to decode it. Yet, uncompressed files are HUGE, and the hardrive will have spin almost every five minutes. ???

Thanks for the reply. I know that eq will eatup extra current, but file size of lossless is about twice as big as 320kb/s so the harddrive has to spin up more frequently.

In my opinion, lame mp3 emphasizes on treble and can be a bit harsh sometimes but matains some of the "atmosphere" of the music, while AAC tames everything and smoothes out but less dynamic.

320kb/s AAC w/ eq on or apple lossless w/ no eq?(This for ipod) Thanks