Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ModWright Transporter experience: truth vs. beauty?

2008-02-09 Thread Apparition
me know what you think? > > Frank OK... just to clarify, I really am just looking for an explanation (this isn't a veiled attack on tubes or whatever). So: why would you get a different result doing the modwright rather than using a tubed amp? I don't get it--isnt

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best method & codec to get the 1's and 0's off the CD to the hard drive?

2008-01-20 Thread Apparition
it was worth it to me, even if I only turn on Windows every few days to rip and such. If you refuse to do windows, you could use Fusion to run a Linux image and use Wine, perhaps. I don't know if EAC works with Wine, but it would be worth inve

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best method & codec to get the 1's and 0's off the CD to the hard drive?

2008-01-19 Thread Apparition
Im not sure if Max with cdParanoia is as good as EAC but I believe its > the best we Mac users have. I am sure you know of this options, but for those that don't, I have been using EAC with AccurateRip on my Mac under VMWare Fusion and it works fl

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] There's More "There" There!

2008-01-15 Thread Apparition
signal. Starting to make sense? Audioquest loathes distortion. You'll love Audioquest. Brought to you by Audioquest, the people that absolutely, positively, don't have a f*%king clue. :) -- Apparition Appariti

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] There's More "There" There!

2008-01-14 Thread Apparition
we do a double blind test, all you have is opinion. Some are better educated than others, however. -- Apparition Apparition's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] There's More "There" There!

2008-01-14 Thread Apparition
alekz;258639 Wrote: > Apparition, you misunderstood my post. I'm not talking about digital > domain. I'm talking about cables introducing ground loops and noise > into the analogue signal via RFI, shared ground, etc. No, I got you, I just don't believe it. Not even

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] There's More "There" There!

2008-01-14 Thread Apparition
that the notion is complete nonsense. Again, I am not putting it that way to be offensive but to put doubt to rest for anybody that is remotely open minded about this (ie. everybody who is just wondering, and doesn't think CAT6 will soun

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] There's More "There" There!

2008-01-12 Thread Apparition
same. You may get more packet loss, for a variety of reasons including a weak signal or congested frequencies, but a packet received and checksummed is good. Period. Always. -- Apparition Apparition's Profile: http://f