Expertise
Better than bacon! (vegan bacon?)
You’ve probably seen the many rave reviews and awards the AudioQuest Dragonfly USB DAC portable has garnered. If you haven’t, then you may want to know that it is the DAC to have for your computer headphone listening and double duty for your home system… Read More »
Upgrades and Options for Linn Sondek LP12
The Linn Sondek LP12 turntable has been in constant development since its introduction in 1978. As the LP12′s performance has been enhanced many configurations have emerged, each ideally suited for a particular taste and budget. A number of different components can be fitted to the Sondek LP12… Read More »
Entry Level Analog Magic
How do I come up with these great little systems? Well, first off I am one of four in our store, so it’s really more like “How do you-all (I hate apostrophefees within quotes) come up with these things”. It kind of happens organically. We… Read More »
Dynaudio Xeo Wireless Speakers
I almost titled this “Wireless Audiophile Speakers” or “Speakers with Audiophile sound quality from Dynaudio”, then I realized something: All Dynaudio speakers have audiophile sound quality. Every last one of them, including the scraped up 15 year old entry level set I sold to a… Read More »
Rega RP1 Performance
Born of Ire. Do ya love the Rega RP1? Well yes, but of course! But you wish,… you wish that you could have just a few more go-fast parts on it to hotrod it up and make it special? Well that’s exactamundo what the Rega… Read More »
Apple Airtunes meets High End Audio!
Not only have we seen it a few too many times, we’ve experienced it! That-which I that-of speak is the ‘island’ high end audio system that plays your records, plays your cd’s, heck even plays your iTunes and/or network FLAC files, but WONT PLAY things… Read More »
USB Adaptive vs USB Asynchronous vs Baseball
What does USB Adaptive and USB Asynchronous Mean? The purpose of this article is explain the meaning of USB Adaptive and USB Asynchronous communication between a sending music computer and a receiving HiFi DAC. They refer to the two leading USB DAC technologies in use… Read More »
Wireless Audio: Great Sound Solutions with Ayre & Linn
Can You Get Good Sound with Wireless Music? In General, no. Wireless sent music is ok, but not great. Not glorious. Not Magnificent. Not heart rendering. It’s OK. A bit like a burger. So the sound is not so, so insanely great shall we say…… Read More »
Ripping CD’s, what iTunes format?
When you start out ripping your cd’s, you go to Apple iTunes Preferences and you see this big hurkin list of possible formats to store your precious life soundtrack to. You have 500 cd’s, it take 2-3 minutes per, so a couple days/weeks of work…. Read More »
iTunes and FLAC and &*(#%!!
Yeah…. You clicked on this because you’ve run into what we all have: iTunes won’t play FLAC Files! Bummer. Why? Rumors and speculation have attenuated this to a certain celebraty’s megalomaniac exigency to acquire sufficient fundage to ensure purchase of the entire planetary supply of… Read More »
Decibel OSX 64 bit Music Player!
The great iTunes solution!
Finally, somebody listened. For the last few years I’ve been asking the manufactures to give us digital inputs on their CD player or integrated amps and preamps so that we could plug in our itunes and such and take advantage of higher quality digital conversion…. Read More »