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Agreed! excellent excellent router (yup that´s doubly excellent :-P ) Got the N version after I got tired of the lousy performance and dumbed down features of my ISP's router. I've had quite a few routers in the past - netgear dlink (ok..had to reboot once in a while) apple (ebay, solid, never...

Easy. Create a new itunes library and Rip everything to ALAC (Apple Lossless), or convert your existing FLACs to ALAC (you'll need a thrid party tool for this). Pro: you'll have no compatibility issues between your devices and clean audio. (and install something like Amarra - it's an itunes...

Greetings audio nuts! :rockout: I want to use my media center as an AV digital hub, and the simpler the setup the better. Since jitter is a big factor in audio quality, i was planning to buy a quality usb to spdif converter with high quality clocks for outputing all audio to the amplifier...

Nope the sound is still digital from your usb port, but just because it's digital doesn't mean it's stays a perfect signal. The Hiface converts it as close to the source as possible to SPDIF standard format, which your amp for example can understand. If you wanna go for an external DAC instead...

Yeah, the hiface or hiface two if you can, I've read good reviews. I think you're confusing analog, which requires two connections (for stereo, left and right channels) and digital connections. The hiface has an SPDIF connector, sends a digital signal over a COAX cable (wire therefore current)...

Getting quality audio from a pc, though subjective, isn't always an easy feat. There's loads of interferemce going on and as a consequence the soundcard on your mb is porone to high levels of jitter (timing errors) which affects things like soundstage and generally the quality of your listening...

Lol, sorry about that.. I laughed when i read your reply. I kinda figured as much, though not in the sense of lossy vs lossless - I think that's pretty clear cut. I was hoping for the opposite :) Humans are funny creatures. Having spent the past few months trawling the net left right and center...

This should stir some thoughts: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html What do you guys make of it? :?

A little toe in should be required for you listening postion - you know, that equilateral triangle thing :) . Have you tried moving them in a completely different position altogether? ie no sloped wall? As with any problem, I'd got for picking one variable, change it, test, look for a...

Yeah, well that was my experience at least with the latest version but on OS X... and originally it's a mac port of xbmc. What happenend there??? :?

Hey guys thanks for the replies :) Sonos - yeah nice device and UI, but I live in a flat and htpc is right next to (future) amp. Seems kinda redundant, and I limit my choice of connectivity, transport, and bitrate (if i read correctly), and it seems they're fussy with dacs too... I was gonna go...

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a streamlined, sleak touchscreen solution to play my media - music especially - stored on my htpc. Side options could include browsing photos, maybe videos, display widget stuff like weather, news, whatever is useful/nice to have. Now the tricky bit: having used...