Media Servers, Access Devices, and Extenders

Has anyone used these volume leveling adaptors?

I recently bought one of those Sony home theater in a box easy set up deals, and I'm afraid the bass is going to keep the kid awake, so I usually turn it down at night and then back up that next evening. At least that's the plan I end up forgetting to turn it back up so basically I'm not utilizing my bass at all.

Video on an iPod. Nope. You tube...

I'm so ignorant on the new mod cons that I dont even know if I'm in the right forum topic, but what is the "best" way to put my irreplaceable vhs tapes onto dvd?  "Best" = quality or price or (for me)simplest.  I have an iMac which God has designed to punish me for my sins in several previous lives.  I have a GREAT stereo system which I've spent 50 years building up to:  Conrad-Johnson CT 5 preamp, Marsh A400 amp, Nottingham 294 'table and arm, Dynavector 17D3 cartridge, Musical Fidelity 308 cd used as a deck, Lavry Engineering DA 10 dac and Dunlavy S

Does the PS3 pretty much do everything one needs for movie and TV downloads?  Seems nice to get a blu-ray player for only a bit more than Apple TV alone.

 Here's an update to a depressing attempt to secure 1080P on-demand downloads from Direct TV. Most folks I've spoken to don't even know this is available. That's right, its here right now! But here's the catch. First, I tried to buy a Blu-Ray player that was equipped for wireless because some idiot at Best Buy told me I would be able to get 1080P downloads over Netflix. Totally wrong. There is only a limited amount of HD content available for download which is 1080i. Most of it is satndard DVD at 480p. Then, I was thrilled when I saw that Direct TV offered 1080P downloads.

Im looking for an easy and efficient way to copy multiple vhs tapes (ie. 4 -6 vcrs) at once to a pvr or dvr to be organized and transfered later on through DVD or Streaming, filessharing. and what not .  I had an VRD-MC3 but would like to accomplish more work for smaller equipment.  It would need to connect to a screen do I can que the tapes.  Also, can i record (multiple vcrs) remotely through hava or slingbox? 
 
thanks

How do I use a music server with a TacT room correction system without compromising the signal quality?
 
Specifically, I now use the TacT as a room correction, D/A, and pre-amp from the digital feed of my Krell digital turntable.  In this scenario I understand there is only one D/A conversion. 
 

I'm trying to set up my iTunes to support an AppleTV per Steve's articles. I would like to keep my current compressed library for iPod use, and to burn CDs for my car. But I would also like to start loading my CDs in lossless form to link with AppleTV as I set up a server for my "real" system. Is there a way to maintain parallel libraries in iTunes, one compressed and one lossless? 

I am in the process of building a new home. I want background music throughout the house via in-ceiling speakers, but hi-quality music in my main listening room.

Sonos seeemd to be just the ticket for me: I could use their units with built-in amps throughout the house, and the digital out of their non-amped unit (into my Reimyo DAC) in the main room. I have since learned that the Sonos generates considerable jitter, so I am considering adding either an Empirical Audio Pacecar between it and the Reimyo, or perhaps a Cullen-modified Sonos.

Presently I use an Ayre D1xe CD/DVD player in my system. It seems time to consider changing it out....to perhaps:
new CD player, or
MS like Linn...but interface suffers, or
Sooloos/Qusonix server with a separate DAC
Mac computer/as server with separate DAC with iTunes

any thoughts as to quality of reproduction...