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  1. Sửa Chữa Điện Thoại Sony tại hà nội

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    Trung Tâm bảo hành Apple tại hà nội

    Trung Tâm Bảo Hành Điện Thoại Sony tại hà nội

  2. Hello all. This is my first post to the forum in many years. I built myself a large iTunes library — about 25000 44.1 files in all — and it has served me well. Local friends are coaxing me into checking out higher definition files, and this will require a new USB DAC since my old DACs do only 44.1. My setup is simple: a USB DAC is connected via a Belkin cable to a pair of Emotiva airmotiv5 powered speakers with some Straightwire analog RCA cables... that's it. In the old days, I had a second computer, a 2008 Mac Mini in my main listening room connecting to an Airport Extreme wirelessly, and I used an early iPod touch to control the computer using an early 3rd party app. I gave up on this as the signal was always dropping off on me, and I just didn't want to connect a large drive to the Mini out there, so I abandoned the notion of connecting a computer to my vintage tube audio system. I have been happy with my iTunes library on the computer in my office; I couldn't even tell you where I put my iPod Touch either, and I do not want to connect any other devices between the DAC and the powered Emotivas. I bought a Schiit, but had to return it because, as Jason Stoddard enlightened me, all of Schiit's DACs defeat use of the computer's keyboard volume controls. I do not know it this is common, but it is not something I want to deal with. The MyDAC is attractive to me because it is at a price I think I can accept, but if it, too, defeats the keyboard sound controls on a Mac it is of no use to me. Also, Micromega has acknowledge the clicking noises one hears on Macs, but there has been no mention of it here. Or, did I miss something? So, does the MyDAC meet my needs or should I be looking elsewhere? Thanks
  3. Years before computer audio existed, J. Gordon Holt, founder of Stereophile Magazine said, "High quality audio in a car is like Chanel No. 5 in a glue factory."
  4. Thanks Chris. No I haven't tried reconstructing the plist yet; I'll give this a try & let you know if it works. BTW, I use my archived CD>HD collection about 4 or 5 hours nearly every day, and the system has never faltered. I have nearly 18000 AIFF tracks from nearly 2000 CDs on my Iomega drive (and backup). I rotate the two drives periodically, kind of like rotating tires.
  5. Rather than type everything all over again, here's a link to a thread I started on the Hoffman site last nite. Would appreciate some help with this little irritation. http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=168955 Merry Christmas to everybody, and Happy New Year too.
  6. The Cayin has been in continual use since it arrived. I'm not at all concerned with its PC tower look but in those two months I've found additional features (uncanny features at that) that make me pleased as punch with the device. If you are prone to leaving your computers in sleep mode, then powering on the Cayin from the remote will awaken your Mac. No, it is not so intelligent as to start iTunes for you, but using the Cayin and an Apple remote for Front Row has worked extremely well for me. In all, I'd continue to recommend this unit for anyone who is not concerned about its limitation to play only CD quality resolution.
  7. Hey Chris, I go incognito for a few weeks and come back to find this great news. I'll have to check this out, but from the little bit I can put together from reading only the first few lines of text, this for use ONLY when listening to music on headphones thru the touch right?
  8. According to the Whitburn book, the first Santana album (with the black and white cover) entered the Billboard charts in September, 1969. As I recall, I first heard this album at a party right after it came out. My roommate had a Columbia Record Club membership, and received Abraxas as his October, 1970 monthly automatic selection. While attending college, I managed a record store run by that big distributor up in Minneapolis (but I forget its name), and I recall seeing it (Abraxas) about the same time. Santana III came out in the Fall of 1971 (until Caravanserai came out the following year, I thought this was Carlos' best record). Caravanserai (Fall, 1972), Welcome (December, 1973) and Borboletta (October, 1974) were a major departure from the hard/Latino rock of the first 3 albums. They showed the jazz influences of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Chick Corea on his appreciation of music, and they also showed his spiritual enlightenment that culminated in his recording with John McLaughlin that was called, Love, Devotion and Surrender. Borboletta remains my favorite Santana LP to this day, although I can understand why it was not a big seller. Steve Miller was one of my favorite rock artists UP TO Number 5, with my all-time favorite, Recall the Beginning; A Journey From Eden never even making the charts. I lost interest in his music as soon as he went commercial with several of the things that followed —The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle and other such pabulum. Things started taking a turn for the worse when Boz Scaggs split from the group after Sailor; Miller started to abandon his blues roots, although much of the stuff on Brave New World & Your Saving Grace ranks among his best written tunes. I would recommend, the hits compilation called Anthology as an easy way to get an intro into early Miller because most of the tunes on it come from the pre-Joker era; it even has the best tune off Recall The Beginning (which has never been released on CD). One caveat, though: The selections from Sailor don't sound nearly as good as those on the actual album.
  9. Closest dealer to me is in Austin, TX which is a bit too far to travel to see/hear them. The import price for the base finishes is $2500... a bit too high for my office system, I'm afraid. My main listening room is roughly 24' X 30 with a 12' vaulted ceiling, so a speaker with a single 6.5" woofer might be getting lost in there.
  10. Tim, I went to Amazon to order a copy of the 30th Anniv ed of Court of King Crimson only to find that the site lists it as the Caroline release, out of print and only used for sale. I went to check my 3 copies & it appears I have one of these. But just to confirm that this is the one you recommended, this one's UPC is 01704-61502-24. I also have an earlier Polydor and a Japan Mini LP of this, neither of which sound quite as good as the Caroline. This is such an exceptional album that I don't mind buying it again. I am always a little cautious about buying used items without verifying that the seller actually has what he has listed. If the above is not the version you are recommending, please provide the correct UPC #. After a little digging over @ Hoffman, I decided to take a chance on the two Santana albums I asked about, choosing those reissued in 2003. There was little consensus on Abraxas, so, in addition to the 2003 version, I ordered the new MoFi too. It would be difficult for me to comment on these compared to the SACDs I have, Caravanserai possibly being the best sounding analog > SACD I own in the genre, with Abraxas not far behind. I also sprang for a copy of the Crosby. Have not listened to this in probably > 25 years. Thinking about a great sounding vintage rock album so that I can offer up some tit-for-tat, I recommend Steve Miller's second album for Capitol: If you don't know much about Steve Miller prior to his big hits, then this one should be a real treat for you both musically and in the sound camp too. Some really great stereo images come at the beginning of the album where we get some electric guitar meant to sound like a foghorn out on the ocean; then there's the drag race that begins way off in the distance on your left with the dragster driving in front of you then disappearing off to your right. Further into the album, the backup vocals and bell tree in "Quicksilver Girl" ought to be pretty amazing to anyone with a high quality system. Don't know what this would sound like on headphones, but its pretty terrific in a good sounding listening room. Oh, and I almost forgot: that IS Boz Scaggs you're hearing in a few of the lead vocals. IIRC both he and Miller met in HS in Texas, but I did not check that fact.
  11. I gather that these speakers are not cheap, but they look like a perfect candidate for my office system. Who sells them in the USA and how much are they? Thanks again.
  12. That calliope in the first KC album has always fascinated me; my old original Atlantic LP always did this best — far better than the relatively rare MoFi. As for CD, I'll take Tim's recommendation & buy the 30th anniversary edition of this as my 4th digital stab at finding something to live with. Haven't heard a digital rendition of the Crosby LP although I've been enjoying this one for years, so, I guess my wallet will be a little thinner after another trip to Amazon. While I'm thinking about this kind of thing, does anybody have a favorite version of two Santana albums, Abraxas & Caravanserai? I enjoy both of these & have the single layer SACDs of both. Obviously I cannot load these into my iTunes library so I am looking for PCM alternatives. Has anybody heard the new MFSL Abraxas? Any threads on it over at Hoffman's site? Evans at the V.G. is a great album, and, no doubt, Doug Sax did a great job on the SACD for AP. Since the gears were switched to Jazz momentarily, do your best to locate a copy of the aluminum MFSL Art Pepper +11. These go cheaply at ebay when they show up there, but, uh, this is one of those instances where the old CD really does play music better than the new reissues. I posted this a few years back at another site: http://www.sa-cd.net/showreviews/1607#1980 In other words, despite the MoFi heavy handedness, theirs plays music better than the new SACD. Getting back to something Tim said about DCC CDs... um, I wouldn't disagree with you, Tim about many of these. The Eagles GH stinks to high heaven; BUT the Nat Cole discs, all 3 of them, are to die for. As I said earlier, the very few Classic Records CDs that Bernie Grundman engineered for the company really do represent the best sounding digital in my experience.
  13. that there are some considerations that tend to mitigate a staunch, no-copy position. But before I get into that, I know a man here in town who freely pirates music, software and even movies, giving the impression somehow that he is exempt from Federal laws against these practices, or that the creators of this art are not deserving of any income for the creation of intellectual property. He is not shy about asking others to loan him their music, software etc, either. I've mentioned to him on occasion that not only are his practices unethical, they are illegal as well. Beyond that, this man is a retired high school principal whose picture appeared on the cover of a local business weekly with a caption underneath that said, "how I made my first million." <br /> <br /> Now, for an exception that I will practice from time to time. <br /> <br /> Shortly after Chris started this website, he posted a request for recommendations for some Billie Holiday recordings that sound good and that are musically enjoying. I responded to the request by mentioning one of Billie's albums that once appeared as a limited edition gold CD that had been licensed to Classic Records about a decade ago. Unlike the standard, mass-consumption product, this audiophile label spent a lot of time and money to unearth the original session tapes, and from these, they offered that record in stereo for the first time since the beginning of the digital age. Comparing the Classic reissue to that of Universal Music is not only an ear-opener, it shows how little that that huge music conglomerate actually respects its customers. <br /> <br /> One would think that Universal would have taken the opportunity to upgrade its own product based on the improvement that their licensee brought to it, but they have not. Despite the numerous times that this title has been repackaged, repriced and reissued, it remains the same, poor-quality mono transfer that it has always been. Since the Classic Records product remains the property of the licensor, it would have been a simple matter for them to take the glass masters and release their own. <br /> <br /> I have made copies of this CD for two friends, but before you think me a hypocrite, both of these friends own copies of the Classic Records vinyl reissue. Thus, they already own a legitimate copy of this recording, and are satisfying copyright requirements for making copies for their own private use. I merely saved them the time it would take to make their own. <br /> <br /> When a recording is left to go out of print, then it seems to me as if the copyright owner considers it less than market worthy. Yes, it is true that the music industry historically mines most of its profits from backlist product, but the goings-on suggest today that in the years to come there will be fewer and more costly alternatives for the consumer of vintage music. Like Superdad, I prefer to have a physical product — even if it's stored as a backup. My closest audio friends would never ask for me to copy a CD for them; if it were out of print, though, I may offer a copy to them with the provision that they seek a bona fide copy of their own.
  14. We appear to be on the same page. Uh, those guys at the Hoffman site do get a bit extreme, for sure, and at the risk of sounding more arrogant than I really am, I go there once every 10 days or so just to see if there are any threads worth reading. Don't you just love all those polls, like, "What's your favorite bubble bath?" or, "When was the last time you scratched your left ear?" I'm sorry, and all this after my new year's resolution to remain calm and non-derisive. I'll give SH his due though, he does have the issue of original CD pressings usually sounding better than the stuff they're putting out now properly documented, with all of the whys and wherefores. And, since you've got that avatar here of Van the Man, let me tell you that it was when WB released the super-duper 24 bit reissue of It's Too Late To Stop Now in the mid nineties that I started to realize that something might be rotten in Denmark. I really wanted to like that new reissue since the first one had a few segments in it that bottomed out my (then current) Martin Logans, but it was pretty evident that the guy who had put the new reissue together compressed the S-H-EYE-T out of it. (Confession: at the time I didn't even know who SH was, I only knew that something was wrong.) Oh, & I didn't know who Barry Diament was either... All I knew back then was that when Mirage sent me a set of speakers to review for T$S, I stuck a few Zep CDs in my player & was awestruck at how pure Plant's voice sounded on "Dazed & Confused" (from I) and "Since I've Been Loving You" (from III... never liked II). I had to call one of my audio buddies who had just moved 250 miles away to Houston to come listen to these tunes on these speakers. By then, though, the Diament Zep stuff was already out of print, and it took him a month or so to find them used — even in a place so big as Houston. My favorite sound guy? Bernie Grundman's digital work for Classic Records is hard to beat. You've been right all the time when you've posted the gospel about how it all boils down to who's at the controls when this great old analog stuff gets mastered to digital, Tim. And I'll add to that that often the selection of the equipment these engineers use will make a difference. There's one more thing I'll add, and that is that some of the highly-touted audio equipment used in the home could be a curse or a blessing, depending, as you have said elsewhere, on one's room (your three most important audio components), and the synergy that your other components may or may not produce in that room. If I move, I will probably have to take my room with me. They say that, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," so I have something of an antique audio system. Many of my components have been with me for more than 25 years. I'll have to say, too, that I had not been prepared for the improvement in sound that loading a major portion of my CD collection onto a hard drive has brought me. There's just an ease and rightness to what I hear; even my wife hears enough of this to stop and listen. Now that's saying something.
  15. I emailed him about 10 weeks ago to express interest in ordering one of his DACs, but never heard back from him. The funny thing about this is that he and I had a mutual friend for more than 30 years, & I had gotten an email reply from Scott about our friend just before Christmas. Since he never got back to me I had to look for something else in my price range, so I took a chance on the Cayin (being retired and living off a fixed income does have its disadvantages... especially if you're an audiophile). IMO it's worth every penny.
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