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| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 Good choice. | |
| Recommend Me Some Speakers Can you get by with stand mount/bookshelf monitors, or do you want floor standing speakers? Better imaging and accuracy versus more (but not necessarily better) bass for the money.Monitors:Wharfdale - Diamond 9.1 or 9.2 smooth but accurateB&W ... | |
| What is FAST? "Fast" is only part of the sonic story, but an important part I think. It might be easy to confuse the term "Fast" with "Bright" and "Slow" with Dull". I think the later comparison is stronger than the former. I agree with the previous posts that ... | |
| iTunes download formats? Blindjim,Thanks, no need to send me the list - they have a lot of albums available in Plus format, but just none of the ones I have in iTunes. Most of my collection is on vinyl and CDs.Apple changed their policy and now sells Plus format files for... | |
| iTunes download formats? Thanks for the feedback and info. Interesting that iTunes "Help" has no references I can find regarding iTunes Plus downloads.I am wrong about the number of albums available in iTunes Plus format, there are many more than 90, at least hundreds.Bli... | |
| iTunes download formats? More digging. Sidssp is correct about DRM protection of standard iTunes files. Also, Apple has introduced another download format called "iTunes Plus" that downloads AAC files in 256kps format that are not DRM protected. The good news is these "Pl... | |
| vibration and resonance I am using a converted 18th century wardrobe where I have been able to make a lot of simple but positive steps towards controlling vibration and cleaning up the sound, even for a very sensitive turntable. Like Drtalsma says, if you give us the par... | |
| how to get good sounding copies of CDs Photon46,I have a LaCie external CD-RW drive for burning. Does a great job, but sounds like a jet plane revving up on the runway when it is burning! I use my built in Panasonic Super Drive for the source - this arrangement seems to work very well,... | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 I have no dog in this fight, yet. Blue-ray currently has greater storage capacity than HD DVD, although that may be changing (see wikipedia posts below). Looks like audio formats for movies on disk are being held back by studio decisions rather th... | |
| how to get good sounding copies of CDs I have definitely noticed a loss in quality using itunes to make CD copies for my own use on a Mac G4 compared to making direct copies CD to CD using disk mastering software. Exactly as you describe, less sparkle and space in the playback of itune... | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 04rdking,1. The Naim n-vi is a great piece even if you don't use all the channels or the video. A simple one box solution with very good sound.2. The Arcam Solo is very slick looking, but the sound is not up to the same level as the Naim in my boo... | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Pzuckerman,Interesting direction of this thread. I am assisting some friends and relatives in purchasing HD video and audio equipment and have been doing some shopping. Within the last twelve hours I read an article in What HiFi about the PS3, tal... | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 Naim n-Vi integrated CD/DVD player/processor/amplifier. All-in-one unit - costs like $6K. Get some good $2-3K speakers and some speaker cables and you are good to go at your budget. Plays movies too. | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Wait! Wait!! Don't buy yet!!! | |
| Creek 5350SE vs Rega Mira 3 Go listen to something like these and see what you think.System 1:Musical Fidelity A5.5 integrated amp and CDPRevel M22 stand mount speakersVPI Aries Scout turntable with Grado Platimum cartridgeSystem 2:Naim Nait 5i integrated amp, CD5i CDP and N... |