manaox2

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Thats really generous of you, I'm glad to know for sure that he is going to make it. Nothing like bromance around the holidays. I want to stay in that room too though, so maybe we should skimp on the mistletoe.

Congratulations on having your new youngest grandchild!

That is a nice option. Are those fuse mounts being used there you think?

If it helps, I use last.fm, same user name. Also, I mostly use CD or digital from computer for my music.

No, no, I did mean the meet; I would much rather have a meet at your place.

No Stax?

Oh yah, I also do this via ASIO4ALL. Fun experiment for me, one DAC to headphones, the other to speakers.

You can use a USB hub (I recommend one that can be powered from a DC adapter) to connect both and setup ASIO to output the channels to both DACs as your sound card simultaneously. Monoprice is a good place to pick up a cheap hub and some digital cables.

lets test it...

I'm sworn myself off of beresford, though I haven't heard your DAC. I've seen some pretty sketchy shilling practices and rebranding of other designs by that company, notably involving their TC series DACs. They have had some incredibly bad designs that don't isolate the digital inputs using pulse transformers, cap decoupling the optical inputs, share a common ground between the analog and digital sections, and just odd layout with similarities with commonly known circuits. Also, shills have shown up on a different headphone forum (head-fi) and used multiple screen names to shill their DACs. Sketchy all around.

I saw that in yesterdays thread. Its cheaper then the $799 mac mini I would want, but not much after configuring it to my wants 1mb cache 1.53 ghz, 4gb ram, ati HD graphics, blu-ray, add in my own 1Tb drive, Wireless N, Win7 Home (around $680). I'm still tempted to go this route if the reviews are as good as that one.

Happy Birthday Dinny!

In my mind, I just had a little voice go 'schwing!'. Dr. Wood approved.

My mistake. I think your answer is 'depends' I guess is what I am saying. You didn't give us any information and your asking us to stereotype these connectors to prove which is best. I'm not sure anyone without your equipment is really going to be able to help you in this case. Different transports, receivers and sources. I think you did the right thing testing yourself, would have been better without the thread about it.

How does one justify stereotyping the sound of different connectors? I see listing strengths such as BNC keeps impedance in spec, etc. But saying that coaxial RCA when speaking to the effects of jitter universally sounds "softer" then AES sounds to me like total horse shit.

Shape and location of said awards made me thing they may be the Madonna award. She has kind of a small cup size, NTTAWWT.

Anyone recommend something they think is good other then Ran?

worth it.

In. This years pick should be better then last years by me.

and Demonoid doesn't count. Mostly because it takes many of its torrents from the better trackers and is managed piss poorly.

My thanks and best wishes to all of our former and current armed service gentlemen.