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My suggestion for using dbpoweramp is definitely for someone at the beginning doing their ripping. Accurate-Rip definitely speeds up bit-perfect ripping and dbpoweramp uses multiple cores so that also speeds things up. When you noticed a difference between AIFF and ALAC was that using only itunes or itunes with Amarra?

^^^Probably a better and simpler way to go to keep everything within OSX. Which ever way you go I still suggest using an external drive as ripping can be hard on the drive mechanism. When I decided to rip my collection I ended up trashing an internal drive on my laptop. Not fun to replace so I then went to an external drive, if it fails, it is easier to replace.

If you want to start from scratch I would also recommend the MAC Mini as your music server. Start with itunes and rip your music into either ALAC (apple lossless) or AIFF (Essentially an uncompressed WAV file). ALAC saves on space and now Amarra Mini and full can play nice with ALAC. I would suggest sticking with itunes to begin with and then add in the Amarra software later as your comfort level increases. If it was me I would also buy a nice external optical drive for your laptop and use dbpoweramp for the ripping (Windows only). It is a great program, extremely easy, and if you have multiple cores, very fast also. It works great with getting metadata for the rips and uses accurate-rip to speed up bit-perfect copying. The downside to this is you need to be comfortable moving data between OSX and Windows. I have not found a CD ripper of comparable quality and ease-of-use on the OSX side.

Just finished getting destroyed by a five-year old in Wii fencing.

Very cool.

Why don't you use a proper amp and then get back to me, MKBY

From Santa:

He was turned down for the role and that appears to be the reason most often cited. as far as them being on the jury

My favorite is that O. J. Simpson was turned down for the lead role in Terminator because the executives did not think he made a believable killer.

I don't know, if I had to choose between being reborn as Will Smith or Keanu Reeves, I would definitely pick Will Smith.

Good point, I stand corrected.

Pfft, it's an Apple, it will come with a free unicorn.

Well I hope you are planning to bring these to Canjam, sir.

Epic WIN!

Happy Birthday Ken. Have some great vino!

^^^I don't know, 4 to 7 weeks hardly seems like it's out.

I have some hope for these as they are 600 Ohm voice coils, which I seem to prefer in the Beyers.

This is a great point, that I will continue to annoy everyone about. Individuals vary greatly in how well their brain allows them to suspend belief and allow them to listen to the music as if it wasn't coming from earmuffs strapped to their heads.

I'm pretty sure he switched from regular to mil-spec paprika recently. So the price increase is understandable.

I would definitely suggest you go around and try the various bodies out with the lenses you foresee using with them. It is amazing how different various bodies by the same manufacturer feel in actual use. I currently use both a Nikon D200 and a D50 one for its balance (D200) and one for its (light) weight (D50).

Britts = Aretha Franklin, KK = Lady Gaga. Makes sense who likes what, aye?

I totally agree. I'm a huge midrange fan, if the midrange is off I cannot be bothered with it. The lower end is the problem and that is where IMO they really are helped by driving them balanced and with moar power. Take off the grill and cut out a hole in the center. Then attach speaker cloth to the ring for support. It really helps in making the frequency presentation more cohesive across the the upper- and mid-range.