Just to get started... my $0.02... others will disagree.... Quote: Originally Posted by ak622 1) Stick with using my desktop. ($0) Pros: - The price - Sound quality (tho not sure how well the Dared USB input works?) - IMO, PC is the future of audio, so stick with this...

What is it you don't like about the CIAudio VDA-1/VAC system ???

Quote: Originally Posted by Konig Ok... that solves the mystery.... so its psychological.. Not really. There are alot of psychological, tactile elements involved. But I stress that in terms of sound quality, vinyl, CDP and PC-audio each have the potential to sound excellent, and...

What CD players miss is the ritual of vinyl. Looking through a vinyl library, browsing the sleeve notes and the art, taking the LP out carefully, cleaning the vinyl, setting a strobe and letting the needle hit the groove..... What computers miss is the ritual of CD players. Looking through a...

When you convert, keep a backup of the original APEs until you are certain no errors were introduced during conversion. This can be caused by bad memory sticks, interface dropouts with HDDs (especially external ones).

Quote: Originally Posted by thomaspf Another vote for JRMC. I like to browse my albums by cover art which works great in this program. Great tagging support Great mobile device support with on the fly transcoding Very low CPU usage in playback mode Bit transparent playback...

Quote: Originally Posted by 00940 At times, I'm wondering if the whole Altman website is not a joke, seeing stuff like that : http://www.altmann.haan.de/tonearm/ That tonearm is fantastic, by the way. Not sure about the C37 lacquer though...

Quote: Originally Posted by Akathriel USB-I2s is an interface that doesn't introduce the crappy SOny Phillips interface like most cheap USB inputs. I2s is the native interface of DACs (not spdif) and is much lower jitter than spdif. All Dacs have spdif to I2s converters and most USB dacs...

so which is the correct website (as in the most up to date)??? http://storm-digital.com/ http://www.storm-audio.com/

check out the video: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2888 the 0404 has a 5VDC input.

Ok, want to get into headphones at home and the system I have doesn't have a headphone out, but does have spare fixed level (2vRMS) RCA outs. So, for a simple solution, could I just gor RCA->minjack cable->go-vibe -> headphones? I don;t see any reason why it shouldn't but you never know...

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I just ripped a load of enhanced CD's. They were by The Police -- basically they have multimedia (a video and some url links) stuff on them as well as the tracks. No problem ripping with either EAC and J River Media Center --where I just selected the music trancks to be ripped. "enhanced" is...

I use Monkey's Audio (APE): the user interface is simple, and it works so seamlessly with my favorite player, J River Media Center. For portable use, all my rips are simply transcoded to MP3, because file sizes are more critical and I cannot hear a difference between lossless and MP3 on a...

Quote: Originally Posted by nspindel Well, if the bandwidth isn't high enough now, it will be in 2 years, when the phone companies are done with all the fiber they're laying around here. We're supposed to have 30 megabit down, 5 megabit up by 2007 here in CT. Wow. I just got off...

I've tried using digital volume control but found it to be less intuitive than a simple knob for fine tuning. Quality difference? No idea. There has been discussion of this over at audioasylum in the PC audio forum. One person has compared the volume pot on the Benchmark DAC1 to the volume...

A PDA with digital out? Not that I know of. There are some very small laptops and tablets though. I do wonder about streaming FLAC's over the internet though. Could the bandwidth be high enough?

your budget? And is your PC used for anything else (like gaming) other than audio playback?

Bit-perfect means that a pure digital signal is sent out by the soundcard to the DAC. it basically refers to how the driver software for the soundcard handles the information. With windows, if you are using "waveout" or "directsound" settings, the sound goes through a thing called Kmixer which...

Quote: Originally Posted by cire replace the CPU heatsink with Arctic silver ceramique thermal compound and a Thermalright SI97 heatsink. you might be able to go passive on this (any idea what core your 1800+ is? palomino or throughbred?) Really? I have an XP1800+ and an XP2600+...

Seasonic S12 PSU Nexus case fans undervolted with zalman fanmates scythe ninja CPU heatsink case which enables ou to suspend HDDs using bungee cord.

Quote: Originally Posted by Davey But yeah, tons of great stuff out there right now and in the recent past for lovers of that sound. Thanks for the recs. I was just recently looking into the Tall Dwarfs but didn't come away with anything yet. Any favorites? Davey, For Tall...

Quote: Originally Posted by uncle b I KNOW there are many Husker Du fans who would graciously part with cash for re-issued/re-packaged/re-mastered/slip-cased/bonus-tracks-you-may-or-may-not-listen-to-more-than-once versions of the classic SST albums. I know I would...seriously...

Hi Davey, Good to hear of another Clean fan. I also have the early stuff (on "compilation" and "anthology"), but "vehicle" is a just such a gem. The later Clean stuff gets quite quirky, but would recommend "Modern Rock" and "Unknown Country". Still missing "Getaway". If you like the Clean, try...

digital sources can vary in quality. I have the Sonica and find it to be OK, that's all, and not as good as a dedicated source. I can't get mine working with Asio4all, and don't use foobar for playback with its kernal streaming, so it is using direct sound as output. As a digital output...