i have a couple more questions concerning DAC's if i have a really crappy cd player and use a really awesome DAC will that make the sound quality as good a really expensive hi end cd player? i guess what i'm really trying to say is; is the DAC the defining factor between hi quality sound and...

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ok, i'm going crazy here trying to figure out what a DAC is for. i'm probably not even in the right forum. whatever. so after a long furstrating search to find information with finding nothing more than a definition, i'm just going to come right out and ask the question "what is a DAC for? what...

based on sound quality and performance quality i would have to say choral moods, bach cello suites by edgar meyer, andrea bocelli sacred arias, 24 caprices by perlman, bach sonatas and partitas by paul galbraith (my personal favorite solo classical guitar album)

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would connecting a decent headphone amp to the stereo amp output inprove the sound or would that just be over kill?

can a good stereo amp with a headphone jack serve as an adaquate headphone amp? I tried it with the system we have at work with my Senn HD 600's and it sounded pretty good to me. I'm not expert by anymeans though. I'm sure this question has been addressed before but i couldn't find anything in...

I used my Creek OBH 11 headphone amp connected to a Sony SCD CE775 CD Player (connected by RCA kimber cables) while using Sen HD 600's and i could not tell the difference when i used this setup and when i just plugged the headphones right into the headphone jack of the cd player. To my ears they...

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oh yeah one more thing. i have an ipod. i created mp3s using the presets standard, extreme, and insane (all the same song) and they all sound the same to me. i use ety's er-4ps (no amp). is it my ears or is it just the mp3 player?

does anyone know of a program that will encode or decode (im not sure which one) a wav file to mp3 using lame which has the command line option. i do like eac. and i use eac to convert to wav. but i want to first create the wav files then use lame to encode them so i don't have to do it cd by cd...

oh i see. thanks

alright im using eac and im using lame as the external mp3 decoder. it works. but i think im missing something. ive been reading alot about "presets" which looks like dos commands or unix commands or something like that. how do i even access that option?

Quote: Originally posted by fewtch The fact is, it takes more knowledge to set up a good sounding PC-based system than it does to just hook a CD player to an amp and plug in a pair of headphones. Those who satisfy their craving for better sound by throwing money at the problem need not...

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