Cant you just have two playlists- a low bitrate that you use with your portables and lossless for home use? Thats what I do.

Started off with a Total BitHead, now have the Micro Dac and Amp.

I have a cd that is badly scatched; two of the tracks are ripping, but its taking about 24 hours per track!

2x astrodyne Power supplies for my Headroom amp and DAC

If you're just wanting music around the house, the touch and iphone now have remote control of itunes. That is, with an airport express ($100) hooked up to your dac/ stereo, you can control your entire itunes library from your touch. So you can have infinite music, at least in your house... It...

I replaced the satellites with some Infinity speakers I had- that made a huge difference.

Desktop right now, considering a laptop for my next purchase- Currently, home built PC: Athlon 3200 1.5 GB RAM X800 Video card Creative X-Fi, digital out to HD DAC 2x15 gb raptors 10000 RPM, RAID 0 320 gb media drive 24" HP monitor Vista ultimate

I am getting good results with apple airport express into the dac in my integrated stereo. Remote control can be with any pda with cheap to free software. This bypasses the ipod but uses my pc/ itunes. Since both the wadia and the airport express really need external dacs, I dont see what the...

actually those look like full sized headphone plugs on the amp/ speaker

those look like 3.5mm plugs (small headphone size) on the back of the speaker, and you have rca out of your source- so you need 2x rca cables and 2x rca female to 3.5mm male adapters. Since there is volume on the speakers, it appears they have an amp built in, so you shouldnt need another amp

that is what you need. Now you need to go into the Creative control software and set the flexijack for digital out. Since all my music is from cds @ 44.1, I overclocked the output to 88.2, instead of 48 or 96.

I dont have a squeezebox, but it sounds like the adapter you need is an amp. RCA out of the squeezebox into the amp, speaker outputs on the other side of the amp.

I have the 2007 Micro amp and dac. I've been thinking of upgrading to the Astrodyne power supplies, but I was thinking, with 6 outputs, could the DPS be used to drive the amp and dac, and also an efficient T-amp, like the KingRex. The KingRex has an optional external power supply which outputs...

filled up 30 gb of apple lossless on 30 gb ipod 5. Have about 85 gb on the computer, all apple lossless

the flexijack is phono, and your dac is probably rca. You need an RCA cable and something like this: RCA-Mini Mono adaptor @ HeadRoom - Right Between Your Ears

I have the extreme music card- I am using the flexjack for coaxial into my dac. One of the jacks is coaxial/ analog switchable.

I believe they are about $2000-$3000

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what t-amp are you using? I'm trying to decide between the kingrex or going the other direction and getting some mono amps- Marantz ma500s

I've seen battery sources for hi-fi equipment, on the low end the KingRex products. A UPS running on battery mode would not provide similar benefits?

thanks for the help everyone- I'm going to keep my existing Infinity Entras and concentrate on upgrading my amp and headphones

I'm using my HR Micro Amp for this purpose- I find myself listening to the speakers more than the headphones, especially since I only have IEMs right now. It works well. A lot of people are using self-amped monitors.

I am setting up a nearfield speaker rig- currently PC (ALAC)-> HR Micro DAC -> HR Micro Amp-> amp in Promedia 2.1 -> Infinity Entra Ones. With $300- $350 to spend, I was looking at used Marantz MA500s to power the infinitys- overkill to be sure, but I may eventually move the amps to my main...

I found some decent speakers at a pawn shop at a great price- Polk RTi4 and RTi6. About $100 for the i4 pair- they have great reviews and went for around $360 a few years back. They are hooked up to a cheap receiver- how can I tell if they are blown or damaged- what should I look for? They...

I thought it was best to turn on the dac-> amp-> (speakers if used) and turn off in reverse order to keep a sound bump from damaging speakers or headphones.