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thewebgal

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  1. Seems to be a newer issued SACD at Amazon for around $40 ...
  2. Yes Grasshopper - all bad, evil in fact. Unnatural. Sell off all your gear to your friends here and contemplate the lotus upon still waters ...
  3. I have an external drive case with 4 2TB Seagate Barracuda drives in it. I had it connected to a G4 Powermac tower, later upgraded to an Intel MacMini, thn upgrade a bit over a year ago to a quad core MacPro. It was connected via Firewire 800, but is now USB2. The nice thing about letting iTunes manage all this is that through all those upgrade and system changes, my iTunes kept growing and I still have covers attached and various notes carried along. Currently over 40,000 tracks - many in Apple Lossless mode. One thing I did do is I rename the album titles with a leading number, so all the albums by each artist line up chronologically. So if I have multiple albums by Miles Davis, it looks like: 12 - Birth of the Cool; 37L - '58 Sessions; 49 - The Complete In a Silent Way Session; 50L - The Cellar Door Sessions ...
  4. Sorry, new to this site and version of the forum software. Anyway, I recently fed the optical out of the Airport Express through a Fiio D3 and then into the Jolida Amp (60w/ch integrated tube amp) - and after reading a number of threads here and elsewhere, I put an order in for a Schiit Bifrost which seems to be a very nice, affordable DAC with contemporary technology. I've got about 40,000 tracks in itunes on an external drive - I do a direct copy of the iTunes folder on a monthly basis and keep the 2 most recent backups. I do have some lossy purchased downloads from iTunes and Amazon Digital, but the first stage of getting better fidelity is by having quality files to begin with.
  5. I have a macPro (late 2009 quadcore) and have iTunes loaded on it. I have an iPhone, a couple iPods and have some Airport Express units around the house so I can send music from the macPro (functioning as a server up in my office) to the TV room or the living room where my audio systems are. You have a large collection of music already, and while its a shame its somewhat low res iTunes Store downloads, its still a large library you can use and enjoy. For the most part, if you load music to iPods or iPhones, you want to stay away from FLAC because its not real portable in the Apple music universe. There are ways around that for your home system, but not on your portable players. I recommend you set your system up so any future CDs you rip and load go onto the library in Apple Lossless Mode. The files will be much larger than your current 256k mp3s, but its a huge improvement in fidelity You can buy used CDs from Amazon for very reasonable prices these days, so over time you can overwrite and upgrade the fidelity of music you have now. But you cannot improve the files you have, just replace them as time and budget allows.
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