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Dan.Hagelin

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  1. I made sure there was no battery in the Wavelink before buying it since I found the battery-modified HiFace a pain to live with. Gordon assured me there was no battery, just good filtering.
  2. Do I allocate as much as much of it as possible to Memory Play? If I understand correctly, I think not. I would only need to allocate enough to hold my largest track of gapless album. Any more than that and it would just go to waste. Does Pure Music buffer more then the next gapless segment it’s about to play? I’m assuming the rationale behind a lot or RAM is to minimize paging in general. Am I right?
  3. I still wonder if my quiet portable firewire drive from iomega will do the trick for me. Is a more expensive and powered drive going to improve sound quality? Also a follow-up question on using lots of memory with Pure Music: is the point that with, say, 8 gigs of memory using PM's memory mode it doesn't really matter if the music is stored on an internal drive? Thanks again, Dan
  4. Currently on hand I have an iomega 500 gig portable firewire drive that draws its power from the computer it's plugged into. Will that suffice or do I need to get a drive that's externally powered? The iomega is at least quite quiet and most of the externally powered ones I've seen are quite noisy. It would be nice, of course, to not have to shell out for another drive right now. Thoughts?
  5. I want to buy a mac mini today. I know I’ll spring for 4 gigs of RAM. Is there a compelling reason to go to 8 gigs? It’s a lot more money, but is it truly worth it? 320 gig or 500 gig hard drive? I’ve read that the best storage for music is in an external firewire drive. (I use USB to connect to my DAC) That said, an internal 500 gig drive would suit my music storage needs for a long time. Will I just plain not be getting nearly as good sound with the music stored on an internal drive. If that’s the case, I’ll buy the cheaper 320 gig internal drive. Thanks in advance for your advice, Dan
  6. Fantastic! Now I can lilypad through my music while surfing the internet to my heart's delight. Pass the Ritalin, please. Thanks so much, Chris.
  7. Chris, Thanks for the response. I’m afraid this is another opportunity for me to lament the fact that I know so little about networking! Let me tell you what I do know: On the Ethernet port I have set the IP address to 192.168.1.1 on the mac and 192.168.1.2 on the PC. The Subnet Mask on both is 255.255.0.0. The “router” and “default gateway” are also the same on both machines: 192.168.1.1 On Airport I am using DHCP. My IP address is 192.168.1.85, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, and router is 192.168.1.254. I hope this helps.
  8. I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. My music server is a headless XP machine. It is located too far from any LAN ports and I don't want to install wireless in it. Therefore I am controlling it with Remote Desktop Connection from my MacBook Pro using a crossover cable. This works fine as long as I have Airport turned off. As soon as I turn Airport on, which I'd like to do for wireless Internet access, the remote desktop connection is dropped. Is there anyway I can configure things so both work at the same time?
  9. I bought it at endpcnoise.com I didn't see the model on the Zalman website either. A few other internet vendors indicated that they carried the TNN 300 but didn't have it in stock. I wonder if it's a discontinued model. Anyone know?
  10. I ended up going the XP -> Lynx -> Berkeley Audio route. So far so good, but I had the opportunity to A/B my Antec case (with 2 fans plus a CPU fan plus the power supply fan) to a friend's Zalman TNN 300 fanless case and the sound through his was much more detailed and had much deeper and tuneful bass. Same music files, same version of Lynx drivers and Media Monkey, both with SSD storage. My Zalman will arrive Wednesday!
  11. I recently purchased a Berkeley Audio Designs Alpha DAC and am using it with iTunes on my macbook pro through the toslink output. It sounds pretty good with this setup (including conrad johnson pre- and power amps and Harbeth Compact 7 speakers), but I know the DAC is capable of much more. It seems, for example, that I can't play 24/192 material. I'm at a loss for what direction to go. Is there a firewire or USB device I can put between the macbook and the DAC to handle 24/192 in the digital domain (like an M-Audio firewire to spdif converter)? Is there other mac-based software I can run to handle 24/192? Would I be better off in the long run switching to a PC and buying a soundcard like the Lynx AES16? (I happen to have a decent spare PC lying around with Vista installed.) If I go the PC/Lynx route, should I reinstall XP instead of Vista? I'm okay with spending another grand for the right solution. Thanks for your suggestions.
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