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  1. How am I going to rip my music? Buy an external drive? What's the point of a smaller MacMini if I have to add an external drive just to make it useful. Also, others have expressed some concern of extra power supply noise now with the internal power supply, which makes sense. I personally believe this is a step in the wrong direction but others may think differently. I think Apple is trying to force it's users to iTunes and the App store to purchase all content from them. The MacBook is gone as well and Apply is pushing it's disk drive-less MacBook Air as it's replacement. Call me unimpressed by this new direction.
  2. I heard that a SACD version of WYWH is coming separately later on. I'll pass on the immersion sets and keep my fingers crossed for that. I already have the DSOTM SACD so I'm not to interested in that. Talk about crazy pricing....I'm a huge Alice Cooper fan and even I refuse to spend the $260.00 for his new boxset. I wonder if anybody's told these rock stars that the economy us regular folks have to rely on for a living isn't all that great right now.
  3. I had a Carver C9 Sonic Hologram Generator years ago and with the right material it sounded awesome and very 3D. The stand-alone C9 was about $200 or so at the time if I recall, maybe a little more I guess. There's a track on Roger Water's 'Amused To Death' album where a team of horse move left to right across the soundstage to open a song. With the Sonic Hologram engaged the damn horses appear to start fifteen feet behind my left wall and end fifteen beyond the right, yes, beyond the physical walls. There were some other titles that were just as amazing, like Queen's song 'Flash', the whole self titled Yes album was good, and a few others. It worked best with certain mixers more than others. Problem was you had to move your speakers out into the room and place them unusually close together and sit directly in the middle, not a foot either way. The effect wasn't as good on most the my music and on some just plain wrong. So I ended up getting rid of the Carver but for a few tracks and albums the effect was simply AMAZING!
  4. I use Pure Music (v1.8a) and iTunes (v10.3) with uncompressed .WAV files. I feed them from a MacBook to a Cambridge DAC Magic DAC using a Glass Toslink cable then to my pre-amp. All told the Cambridge DAC, Pure Music, and Glass Toslink cost me about $600.00 and it sounds as good as any of my disc players.
  5. Yes, holding down the 'Option' key on iTunes start-up is the key (no pun intended). You can use it to create a new Library or select between different ones. I have a MP3 library on the internal drive and a 2nd larger uncompressed .WAV library on a 1-TB external hard drive. I also have a back-up of the MP3 library on the external drive and a 2nd 1-TB external drive with a back-up copy of both at home plus a 3rd drive that I keep at work should the unthinkable happen. It took months and months to rip my nearly 1500 CD's into iTunes and I don't ever want to have to do that again. Please remember gang.....backup your library and then backup again. 1-TB drives are now as low as $79.00 so buy a couple and make backups.
  6. Can I use Pure Music to play the audio portion of You Tube videos online? I have read that others use it to play internet radio but what about internet video?
  7. Teresa....you were banned from 'The Audio Asylum' a couple of years ago because of your constaint RBCD rants and now I see you're at it again here. We get it, you don't like 16/44.1.....that's fine. Hopefully the moderators of this forum will keep an eye on you and not let your post/rants get as out of hand as they did over at The Asylum. Now, time to go and listen to some swell sounding CD's!
  8. Hello, I'm running a MacBook into a Cambridge DAC Magic using a Lifatec Toslink to Mini-Toslink Glass Fiber Optical Cable and Pure Music v1.8. I pretty much haven't touched the settings in Pure Music other than use Memory Play Mode and play around with the Upsampling a little. Since the Cambridge DAC upsamples I don't hear much of a difference with Pure Music's upsampling on or off. I wonder if someone would be so kind to maybe give me a few tips to optimize Pure Music for better sound. I don't think 'HOG' applies to me since I'm using optical out but maybe I'm wrong. I am hoping there are some more experienced users than I that can give me a few tips. BTW....great forum. I just downloaded the DVD Audio Extractor and have been ripping copies of my DVD-A's to iTunes. I apologize in advance if this isn't the proper place to post questions like this and understand if a moderator needs to delete. Thanks
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