Re: [slim] Re: Decent Universal Remote

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Cutts
Another vote for the Harmony 880. I used a Pronto before. It worked great but required a time investment to program it. The real problem for me was when I replaced or added a piece of gear I had to go back through the programming learning curve to update the remote. In contrast: I recently moved wh

Re: [slim] SB2: Any difference between line out and headphones output?

2006-07-26 Thread Bill Cutts
I recently purchased Sennheiser HD-650 headphones Is there any difference between the line out and headphones output? Nice headphones, congrats. Line outs aren't meant to drive a load so they aren't designed to provide the power needed for that. On top of that, the Senn HD-650s (while great

Re: [slim] A "reasonable" DAC to go with SB3?

2006-07-25 Thread Bill Cutts
I have an Apogee Mini-DAC that I really like but the price is approaching $1000 w/o USB and above $1000 with USB. I haven't heard one but for the price people rave about the HeadRoom MicroDAC. FWIW, Headroom is a great company to deal with. http://www.headphone.com/products/headphone-amps/the-mic

Re: [slim] harmony 880 and squeeze 3

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Cutts
I've got a Harmony 880 that I'm using with my SB2 (and all the other gear in my living room). Works great. I've had no problems at all. The Pronto worked well but required you to learn to manually program it. The biggest problem with that was when I replaced a piece of gear I had to relearn the pro

Re: [slim] Re: Best FLAC converter?

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Cutts
Audiograbber does the same thing and is my personal preference.Definitely quicker than EAC at ripping to FLAC. Pros / cons (as I see them) are 'here'(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToRipping).Thanks, I didn't realize any other rippers were producing checksums. I glanced at the

Re: [slim] Re: Best FLAC converter?

2006-05-09 Thread Bill Cutts
I like the concept of AccurateRip which provides an online checksum of ripped tracks to compare the accuracy of your rip:www.accuraterip.comCurrently the only supported rippers are EAC and dBPowerAmp. I use both. dBPowerAmp is faster than EAC but doesn't handle scratched disks as well. So I use dBP

Re: [slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Cutts
dBPowerAmp www.dbpoweramp.com can convert WMA to FLAC (or other lossless Codec). > >BUT, I have 100gb of WMA Lossless files which I really can't face >re-ripping. I guess there must be an easy solution to this? Some sort >of conversion program? I really want them in high quality and not in >'o

Re: [slim] Re: How to use FLAC?

2005-09-21 Thread Bill Cutts
You can also use a distributed version of this approach: www.accuraterip.com maintains a database of checksums generated from rips of CDs that you can compare your rips against. You get a "confidence" number that indicates how many submitted rips agree with yours. Any match gives a pretty good

Re: [slim] Any chance of SlimDevices making a portable player?

2005-04-11 Thread Bill Cutts
> I know. Doesn't hurt to nudge them in the right direction tho, does it? ^^ > Aside from that I was interested in the responses a thread like that > might generate, including "Yes, please, and make sure to include xy > feature" and "That's lame, I carry my custom modded solar powered sb1 > in my b