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  1. anyone looked into this thing? USB Off-Ramp Turbo 2. It's expensive, but I guess u can use it with any pretty decent dac (that's not like 5 g's or whatever).
  2. yea I think it would just be a pain to use my mac, esp if I wasnt getting an advantage over USB output on my pc... I think the squeeze box Idea is a bit cooler cuz if my music wasn't located on the box anyway it's doing more or less the same thing as using the mac for playback. I use my pc mainly to store all my media like flac files, my hd-dvd's, and a bunch of other crap... The mac is nice, but being tethered to a laptop is kind've annoying esp with tons of cables poking out of it and snaked all over the place to use it as a desktop (usb drives and audio cables all over the place). I guess I got alot to think about, i def don't want to throw away money unless it's really gonna make a huge difference for me. That dac looks awesome, but damn is it expensive... I had a feeling the ps audio digital link 3 was a good dac for the money, and been thinking of trying one of those, only thing is using the USB option on there didn't seem to use it to it's full advantage according to some of the reading I did. bleh... too many options.
  3. yea i got a macbook pro, and a windows XP system I use in my room. I have them both tied into a KVM... I keep all my media on the pc though, that's the thing.
  4. dan, do u think my macbook through spdif will sound alot better then USB through pc option im using? I also think its kinda annoying cuz i have my library (a few 500 gig drives) sitting on my pc anyway... would have to play the music over the network anyhow haah. Also not to sure about what i'd use as playback software on the mac, i use foobar on windows and like it alot... What do you use?
  5. yea u got me interested, i just hate i can't hear how one of those sounds before i bite the bullet ons omething like that. I mean i run that risk anyway, but when im buying a very pricey, and used model, that always feels a little more concerning. So the question really is, would my SPDIF on my computer be a bottle neck, or should i really consider getting a squeeze box? I mean for all of this money spent on it, i want it to be really good for what I'd use it for 99% of the time a DAC. It would be kinda ghetto if the transport I used just sucked. I always figured USB would be better then using the spdif on my PC... I'm wondering why people would go to such great lengths to use usb if spdif was such a better option off a cheapo soundcard?
  6. that one looks cool too, but the price is up their and i've read some reviews that said it's a bit over priced for how it sounds? Have you compared it to your dac1 or lavry? I guess if i do anything, i want it to be a real nice upgrade from my minidac.
  7. i have spdif on it, but i assumed it sucks and haven't tried it. It's built on to the motherboard heh. I guess I can also use my macbook as a transport. It has spdif.
  8. hah yea, well i mean, i guess my range is fewer then 3 grand. Well yea I could consider that... so the squeeze box itself is a pretty decent transport? I mean both options I was looking at b4 were 2 grand or more so I guess anywhere in that range.
  9. hmm, so u'd rather go with a cd player with digital inputs... didn't really consider that as an option. I do have a few cd's so having redbook transport is cool to. These units do look really expensive, how is this a better option?
  10. Thinking of going with a new dac, as an upgrade from my apogee minidac. I've been using USB and have primarily flac files (ape, ogg as well). Mainly i'm debating going with a benchmark dac1/is2(usb conversion) , or maybe a transporter to avoid USB all together. It seems the onbard usb options on most dacs are considered inferior transports to an alternative like this. No complaints with my mindac, but I know I can do a bit better with these fancier transport options available. I don't have any oversampling either and I know that i'm not utilizing the full potential of this DAC. Anyway i've read a bit about the empiricle audio is2 dac1 mods, and also been trying to read a bit about the transporter. I noticed mods are finally available from modwright (but really pricey, 2 grand on top of the 2 grand unit, haven't seen a review on this mod yet). Anyway, for my goals of using compressed digital as a source, can anyone give me advice? For reference, i'm using all grados, and have a pretty modded up extreme platinum as my amp. I've owned a dac1 in the past, and wasn't really thrilled with it's sound compared to other sources i've owned. I've never actually heard one of these modded units. Any tips appreciated.
  11. sounds like an awesome amp, congrats.
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    but what if jim carey wants to chill by the amps though? is that cool?
  13. mjg

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    dam, that's so messed up yo.
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  15. dam i just got my vide 80 gig ipod a month ago. 160 gigs for the same price, bleh. whatever they come out with new ones every 6 months. if u need to get a new one to be cool, your gay. The touch one looks like its for people who are too cheap to buy an iphone but want to still look super awesome.
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    i heard jpak was really smoking crack with your mom. it was on the news, thats why i'm saying this.
  17. how does someone get into feces? that's like super uncool.
  18. dam i should take off this shirt with naked women that i wear to work everyday. i thought it was going to bring me success.
  19. happy birthday ttyll. i still hate you and think your old. your shirts suck. just kidding.
  20. can't blame u. I'm sure getting the technique down is a pain. I felt ok paying the premium i did cuz grado did it, and i know he doesn't have to go far to replace them.
  21. yep, all broken in and nice, they are sweet as hell. I'll try to write out what i think of the combo over the weekend. So far though i gotta say it's the most dynamic and detailed setup I ever had. The extreme came back with a load of upgrades (a few i didn't even ask for!). The cans sounded sweet out of just the minidac, but out of the maxed out extreme it sounds like something else.
  22. good luck on that one postjack. I asked him a 1000 times
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    g3, got dream theater coming up on the 25th : )
  24. been using it to break in my silver dragon cable on my rs1's, and now that its nice and broken in, it's pretty decent. Much better then i remembered the amp in the dac1.
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