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hooligan -- Thu, 02/25/2010 - 13:46

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.

flytohuxind9 -- Fri, 01/22/2010 - 01:31

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

jack d ii -- Tue, 01/05/2010 - 11:12

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

Lear -- Fri, 11/20/2009 - 15:50

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.

marty817 -- Fri, 08/21/2009 - 17:34

 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.

-- Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:51

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

-- Mon, 02/23/2009 - 07:21

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. 
 

PALewin -- Mon, 12/15/2008 - 20:25

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? 

LarryB -- Fri, 10/17/2008 - 14:32

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.

hikejohn -- Sun, 09/28/2008 - 10:40

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...