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  1. Before buying a a setup you should answer some questions : 1. How big is your room ? How big is small ? 2. Can you place your speakers correctly ( stereo triangle )? 3. What type of listener are you ? Do you listen to music without any other activity or is it just background listening when you you´re into something else ? It´s important that your main focus is the speakers if your main goal is maximal sonic quality, it´s correct placement and adequate size for your room. All the other stuff is more or less secondary. Don´t believe the hype regarding all the dac, amp, cable reviews, just spend the amount of money at electronics to fullfill your needs of functionality for a start so that you have the maximum possible amount of money left to buy the speakers. Check your region for hifi dealers and demo as much speakers as you can, tell the dealer about your listening environment. Many dealers will try to sell costy electronics and accessoirs, don´t buy it there, only the speakers you prefer. Optimizing your setup with costier electronics and accessoirs is something you can do in a future. That´s part of the hobby but not for a start into it. Perhaps a integrated Receiver would suit you better than a DAC + amp. Their performance often isn´t worse than an amp + dac in your budget class but in most cases give you far more functionality like ipod docks, fm...
  2. Hi, I´m quite familiar with MP, using it for years on my HTPC. I´ve recently build a dedicated cMP² audio PC for my HQ recordings and of course i´ve tested them against each other. The reason for me building a cMP² PC was that i´ve compared cplay vs. my MP HTPC with an old computer before and found it superior, even i didn´t apply all recommended tweaks back then. I also compared jrmc and foobar against mediaportal and preferred mediaportal over them. Now i´ve build a cMP² system following cics guideline and using the recommended hardware, all bios tweaks applied, all os tweaks apllied and one thing is for sure and very obvious : cmP² beats the hell out of mediaportal. There´s just more auditioned quality, more perceived weight of the instruments, more analog like sound. For radio, last fm, lower quality recordings, ( hd ) concerts, and all the other media stuff i use Mediaportal of course, it´s a no brainer. It just didn´t felt well playing my quality recordings in Mediaportal knowing that there are to much devices and services running wich do affect soundquality. At least in my setup. Mediaportal is a stunning front end and hard to beat with it´s functionality. I can recommend it to everyone. Regards Ramón
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