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On the most cables, the sleeves are commonly asymmetric. And if they aren't (or even if they are, but it's tough to tell), a Sharpie works wonders.

For home systems, certainly not. There is some music that I have only ever found in MP3, in which case I'll use the MP3s. But for what I can find lossless, I use lossless. I do have an iPod (a 16GB...

Congratulations, jephdood! I'm officially jealous! :cry:

Reading pg2, seems like #42 is taken. How about #21?

Shangri-La is probably my favorite Mark Knopfler album--I don't really like Kill to Get Crimson but Get Lucky is pretty good.

I'll take the lucky number 42. I like that entire album, though I especially favor Telegraph Road. Otherwise, Communique is my favorite DS album.

I would not advise anyone to rely on a single consumer drive to store their music collections, not with the age of ISP bandwidth caps upon us. A 2TB internal drive plus a 2TB external drive would be...

That's always a problem--once you build the array, you cannot easily split it. Luckily, by the time you upgrade it, you may have a larger drive available. My RAID 1 array is built on a 2-port...

From what I've heard, Seagate already has killed Samsung-branded drives quality. That's very disappointing--as older Spinpoint F4EG 2TB drives are very reliable compared to WD Greens or low-RPM...

RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. There are 4 popular RAID implementations, 3 of which actually provide data redundancy.

RAID 0: A "spanned" array, where you have multiple hard...

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB/2TB drives are usually pretty decent. There's also the RE3/RE4 lineup which are specifically meant for RAID configurations. Are you planning on using RAID? If you...

You and me both. I'm relocating to Dallas-Ft.Worth in about a month. I'd love to come to a get-together--I'd bring my cans, headphone amp, & DAC--the loudspeaker setup is staying behind for now.

Preamp
Poweramp
Stereo speakers
CD player
Turntable
&
D/A converter
Radio tuner
Computer or Squeezebox Touch
Comfortable chair/sofa

You better! What good is vinyl if it isn't spun?

On a sidenote, something I discovered:

Multichannel out over digital interfaces usually requires Dolby Digital or DTS--both encoding and decoding. Otherwise, the audio stream will default to...

I'm of the same mind: her CDs are bits of leftovers--if it was mastered better, I'd definitely enjoy it a lot more. How many years until MFSL or someone gets their hands on the recordings?

What would make more sense to me is a regional contract nutritionist who specializes in adolescent diets. Have them come in every so often and check the cafeterias and spot-check the bag lunches (not...

I don't know if anyone responded to ya, but honestly, if you raise beats for slaughter, you ought to use every single bit of them possible. The real shame with processed meats is the use of...

Unfortunate. Usually, used speakers are better picked up locally.

I suggest you use Idea #2 but figure out if you have space between the left wall and the door for book/media storage. Put your audio equipment in the closet and run 14-gauge wire. Another possibility...

I pick you, 42!

I think it's his amplifier. BOSE hates clean power.

You can use better Toslink cables--not all are made of plastic fiber. Any latency induced is truly negligible--the greater concern is the connection itself. The larger point about using a PC as a...

I'm a tad disappointed--you didn't grab a Little Dot DAC_I! Anyways, are you comparing these just on the Beyers & MuFi V_Link or on your Sennheisers & its amp too? Also, have you let the DACs...

Am I too late? There's also the Topping D2 DAC for $185. It does it all--USB, Coax, Optical, line-in, line-out, and a headphone amp section. Plus it's small and you can get a second DC power brick...

I love my DT-880's--they sound great and balanced. Like AKG K702's, but with better bass response. The real problem with Beyers is they really love having tube headphone amps. I just ordered a Little...