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  1. Monty wrote: "... but I did come to the conclusion that a series of monitors (I tried more than Dynaudio) really did out perform the set up I had at that time and the active monitors I auditioned were more to my liking." Me too. Moved from Densen Beat B100 integrated and Passive Linn Kabers to Mackie HR624 Mk1. Cheers
  2. Most amplifiers and speakers are made to maximise compatibility, therefore compromises are made. With Active monitors the amplifers only have the one drive unit to drive, and they can be optimised for just that, by the people who are making the speaker - who better to pick the amplifier for the job. Passive Speakers performance vary hugely with the amplifier selection, and there is all the hi-fi fun of changing them, but to be honest, who many combinations of these will better a set of active monitors for the same money, or even 1/2 the price? I have gone this route myself, yes you'll need a decent pre-amp, preferably with balanced outputs, and I believe some of the same hi-fi rules apply with stands, set-up (monitors are often configurable for room conditions though), and most surprisingly to me cables, but I run a pair of Mackie HR624 active monitors, and you'd have to prise them out of my cold dead hands before I'd change them for "hi-fi" speakers of less than 5k UKP. They come in different flavours, don't like Genelecs myself as I find that they're a bit shouty and, yes quite probably fatiguing but I'd decided I didn't like them before that set in, and I've not heard many different types. If I was looking to change them I'd look at Dynaudio, Acoustic Energy and Mackie again. Good luck if you decide to go with the Dynaudios, I very much doubt you'll be disappointed. Mine are classified as near field monitors as I listen near field and in a small room. Monitors are less forgiving of lots of reflective sound I've found, at nfm size at least; bigger mid field types are probably better for bigger rooms but my experience is hardly exhaustive and there'll be people better placed tham me to advise sorry. Cheers
  3. Hi Chris, thanks very much. I've downloaded the wave plugin and stuck it in. I'm very impressed with Media Monkey these days, the version I was running was 2 years old and this current one is nicer to use. It does everything I want, and I think it's running optimally. Thanks for your help. Until I've been a more traditional audiophile, but I'm very impressed with PC audio now even through the elderly creative USB cards optical output. I run that to a Wadia 15 DAC via a Monarchy Audio DIP Classic jitter reducer. Cheers Tim
  4. Chaps, This is a great forum. I've gone back to Media Monkey again after some faffing about trying to make WMP11 play FLAC files. I managed it locally on the PC but the NAS drive copy of the FLAC files it kept losing, and then refusing to play, and then WMP would lock up, and then I'd cry for a bit - so Media Monkey it was. To be fair I've been very happy with MM for the last 2 years, but a Laptop wipeout prompted me to try give WMP11 a go...... Anyway, In the CASH list here Media monkey figures, saying that "bit perfect" output is available with "only a couple of configuation changes". I've added ASIO drivers as defined by the MM site, added ASIO4ALL as my ancient Creative MP3+ USB external soundcard sdoesn't support ASIO and all seems well. I've searched the site but can't see if there's anything else I need to do to achieve bit perfection? I've turned aff all the Windows sounds so nothing else whould be trying to get out of the soundcard. I remember being told somewhere that if I wanted proper sound I shouldn't be using anything by Creative, if this is the case, I'm going to need a USB external soundcard that supports ASIO, and peferably not too expensive as I'll need 3 of the for the 3 systems unless it've very portable!! No takers? Is this in the wrong forum? Cheers Tim
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