Recent content by DCC

B&W speakers are well represented coast to coast in the US, I reckon they've reached market saturation with audio enthusiests. As they exist now, I don't see the opportunity for great growth. And this is no billionaire fanboy purchase, the 20m in up front finance assures us of that. To achieve a...

at comment #15 "there's not much audiable difference between modern dac's so I wouldn't worry.." And here I thought this was a high fidelity forum.

That's considered the break-in period, correct? *biggrin* I experienced similar on my last speaker change out. Yep the edge I was hearing/feeling in the mids and uppers was painful...and of course it shook my consumer confidence :). I beared through it though and after break-in it's night and...

"Read the mains cable reviews. Complete nonsense." !!! Cables are in the conflict zone.

Right between the HI and the FI. From one fairly new to WHF - Like many followers I reckon, I spent my first serious time on WHF when putting together some gear. I was way to focused on this site/mag's ratings. I didn't apply percentage to the star rating but I sure did want 5 of them...

Yes that's correct. It's embedded into the digital files before being distributed to streaming and download services, but it's not on the CDs or records. Not all labels and record companies do it of course, but I don't want it there at all. Don't know if it was intended but even with the...

Music playing downstairs, me working up. Love it. I can drift in and out of the sounds without effort and it's rarely ever a distraction.

I should add - obvs you can use "create library" to create (and stream) multiple libraries via the mini.

I've moved a few itunes libraries recently, I transfer them without much fuss as follows - Open itunes while at the same time pressing alt/option key, choose create library from window, name it & choose location in window, now your new library itunes is open - pull-down the File menu at top and...

I meant to add this to the prvious - Apps are great for the immersive - window shopping thru libraries, creating playlists, other fun "lifestyle" tasks. Whatever, call it what you will, it's fun times! But Apps are not at all good for the reactive - like when it needs to be down NOW. Use the...

...but using it headless would mean all control (ex. if you use it, the Apple remote control) is via another computer or as many imagine via the fab apps for our smart devices...and that has its drawbacks when playing content. Using a smart/remote app means that every time from rest one has to...

I suggest starting with the subjective (looks) vs the objective (isolation). The LS50 is semi-high-end kit and as such isolation stands are vanity....IMO unless your particular needs are unusual any decent stand will do. Once you get past works well enough and functions as desired the only thing...

I feel like I time traveled to the not too distant past Lhc. Meanwhile today there is an abundance of bitperfect player options for MAC or PC. No, the point is a PC will generally stick to one bitrate output, so for lower bitrates will either upscale it or not play it at all and for higher...

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I use a mini, and was in search of the same – a quality int. amp w/ b-i DAC. I'm very happy with I what I purchased, so much so I'm tempted to put "very" in all caps. To make a short comment long, here goes. I live near Cape Town, so I've limited brand options and varying added import costs to...