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When jude encourages it, what do you expect?
But seriously, portable amps today are better than anything available just a couple years ago. It's not surprising people are thrilled with the performance of their portable setup.
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I'd be up for Wed, Fri, or Sat.
I'm up for weds, fri and saturday...
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So who's up for dc bar meet weds at dogfish in gaithersburg?
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No, go ahead and derail the thread, it's fine. This isn't that other place, we're not nazis.
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Thanks for the pointer, I sent him an offer...
I love the RS1s. They'd also never be my only cans, but aside from the PS3000s, which I couldn't justify keeping, I haven't heard any phones that could be. The VTGs come closest.
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well there is that...
but I don't support Grado anymore.
John raped your sister? Or he turned 18 and you no longer owe child support?
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i think the headroom micro dac (a three hundred dollar dac) is significantly better than the airport express, though i do think the airport express is pretty decent for what it is.
Yes reks, but would you rather have a headroom micro dac + a $300 amp, or an airport express + a $700 amp?
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thanks for the input philodox
grawk, remember I am new to this and not trying to give you a hard time. how does this airport express replace the processing of the sound that a DAC supposedly does? do I understand that its a wireless gizmo? or it connect to pc via coax or toslink or usb as a DAC would. the reason I ask is it sounds intesting and I'd like to know more.
You stream music to it via wifi or ethernet. You listen via analog out. It's comparable to any $300 dac.
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Just don't mention the transformers or 909 will flip out here too...
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dang that friggin' edit time got me AGAIN
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I found a page that had some info, but I didn't see anything that pertained to its use in a audiophile setup. can you speak to its qualities in such a setup ? provide links to info speaking to its quality use in hifi?
I ask this as what I seen it seemed like a wireless access point to stream music to a home audio receiver. does it only work with itues? being apple thats what I expect. I use foobar atm for music from the pc, kernal streaming.
does any of that stupid DRM crap come into play?
There is some software that will let you stream anything to it, but it works mainly with itunes, and with itunes is bit perfect. And nothing about itunes or the airport express stops you from playing any mp3, aac, alac, wav, etc file. The drm is only on songs you buy from apple.
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I'm a bit flexible , but was thinking along the lines of 300$ us tops on a dac and 500 or so tops on an amp.
to me as far as budget goes, as I said I can give a little more IF the gain in sound quality is substantial.
I am though, trying to stay away from broadening my price range much, as that'll just lead to more options and more research and headaches :'(
as I can clearly see, not sure what those here would call it, what I call "upgrade-itis" , gets many that are into this hifi headphone world. As that happens people keep up-ing the dollar amount they will spend.
so.... lol after all my silly rambling on, lets say 800$ us max
If you're going separate dac and amp, you're throwing money away if you buy a $300 dac. Spend $700 on your amp, and get an airport express as your way to get the music off your computer.
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the gilmore lite is probably the best out of the bunch.
or you can save up the money and get an all-in-one solution such as the benchmark/apogee/lavry/aqvox/headroom desktop. probably gonna run a tad expensive even when you can find one used, but IMHO its the best-of-both-worlds solution.
Aqvox isn't an all in one solution. It's a dac, with a shitty headphone amp if you're using usb. I'd say the M3 is a good choice from that list , and if you're considering the hornet, you should also consider amps like the supermicro and the pint, etc.
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He uses a sling blade. Some people call it a kaiser blade, mm hmmm.
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Hmmm... Ponders the idiocy of hooking up an decent portable source - but nevertheless a significantly inferior non-portable source if it were to be used as such - with something that is not portable in any way. If you can afford a Manley amp you can probably afford a Sonos system and a DAC at home. As a viable everyday solution and as a facility to actually incorporate into a product, it is undoubtedly an excellent marketing move but it is idiotic all the same - unless there is a DAC built into there of course, in which case I take it all back.
I have an iPod dock nominally wired to my 383 which I use for charging only in most cases and I have been known to do this... but purely for the sake of amusement.
Look at it this way. The ipod may not be the best source hooked up, or the source most frequently used, but it sure would be handy to just walk up and drop the pod on, if say you have friends over who want you to hear something, or you're having a party, or whatnot. The dock is about convenience, and the output from it isn't bad, even if it isn't up to the level of a multi thousand dollar outboard dac.
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Wouldn't this be the epitome of the dumbassness associated with "portable toys"? (Portable as in MP3 player not as in portability.)
What kind of idiot amplifies an iPod with a Manley?
The kind of idiot who owns an ipod and a manley, I'd bet.
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That has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with increasing market penetration. Throw an ipod dock on your device, and suddenly millions of people become a potential customer. And if you can get listed in apple's store...
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Why are you asking almost exactly the same question in another thread?
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cheap external drive.
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If you can find em, try out the W11JPN and W10VTG. They're the only 2 at's I've heard, but they're apparently different from the rest of the ATs. I find them very musical and enjoyable. Enough so that I sold my PS3000s and HP1s to stick with hhf1 and w10vtg.
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I use UM2s straight out of my 5g ipod and my shuffle, and don't miss the amp at all...just saying.
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