I am using an iMac as sever and have to, because of equipment location, run a long glass toslink to my DAC. Glass made a big improvement over the plastic link I started with but another item has almost as big an improvement.

I am getting pretty good sound with the system with my only complaint being a bit of grit in the high end that I put down to jitter caused by the long Toslink run. I replaced my $2 mini Toslink to Toslink adapter at the iMac with a new $20 Startech adapter and 90% of the grit I thought was jitter went away...

Can one use a CD laser cleaning disk on an iMac's disk drive???

Hello, I'm a novice in the HIFI's world and in this forum too. At first, sorry for my english, i'm from spain.
I have a question to do but i cant find nobody to answer...i want you to help me because i have a PC for the listening of my music and i will buy an ASUS XONAR ESSENCE STX for a better audio but i don't know what type of loudspeaker i would have to buy to optimize that sound card. Now, I have a Sennheisser HD485 and ALTEC LANSING VS 2621 2.1 (http://international.alteclansing.com/spain/vs2621-pc-computer-speakers.html).....I wait for you responses. MANY MANY THANKS¡¡

I have spent the better half of the last four months searching for a replacement CD transport. We previously had a Japanese market Technics SL-P999 which was wonderful but was in need of replacement. I searched high and low for something which not only would be an improvement but would be a BIG improvement. Not only did I find it but I have to let everyone else know about it.

I have been reading Stereophile since 1992. Back then I was a broke 17 year old high school student living at my family's apartment. Could I afford ANYTHING in the magazine? No. Not at all. Could I convince my mother to buy a $2,000 CD player? Never in a million years. Could I convince myself that I needed to own something like this when I grew older? OF COURSE!