So my living room computer - the 8 yr old Dell - crapped out. I have an Apple Powerbook I can use & my wife also has a MacBook, but I like having a desktop in the house. So I was going to just get one of those iMacs, but then I thought, why not have one of those dudes at MicroCenter build me a custom PC - an audiophiliac one at that - at a similar price? (I suck at building anything.)

I have been tormented by the issues raised by JA's article "Music Served: Extracting Music from your PC" from October, 2008. I finally decided to purchase the inexpensive M-Audio Audiophile 192 64-Bit PCI Audio Interface and install it as a soundcard in my new PC.

I plan to run a 20' S/PDIF coaxial cable to a Benchmark DAC1 coaxial input on another floor - my PC is on a different floor than my listening room.

But is there a way to do it wirelessly with Hi-Rez 96/24 wav files?

thanks,

Noam

Hello. I'm not entirely new to this hobby, but now as a homeowner I am finally beginning to build a more (audiophiley) system. I currently have an arcam a70 receiver powering sonus faber domus concertino speakers. I love the new setup, but alas, when listening to hip-hop or electronic music there is a missing piece. You guessed it....bass. I knew this getting into it when I bought these speakers. They're small...and cheap (in the audiophile world)....but it's the best I could do for now. I am considering adding a subwoofer.

Aloha!

If two speakers have the same frequency response, yet one is more 'detailed,' what measurement do you think would be most appropriate to try and explore the phenomenon of detail?

Hola.

For any given pair of speakers, are you more of a 'straight on' kind of listener, or a 'toe in' guy?

I ask 'cause I've been fussing with some speaker placement and I'm thinking I am sort of a non-toe-in guy. I like my imaging further back. I think a more stright ahead speaker set up tends to give me that.

Do you have a proclivity is this matter?

I know speakers vary, this is meant as a general kind of question.

I have asked how a poorly constructed piece of dung like a computer could produce a data stream as musical as a good transport and have been reassured repeatedly that all that matters is the data stream, the bits the DAC receives. Build quality and cheesy computer wiring do not matter.

OK, having been told this by a lot of folk I respect, I took it one step further. If a junky computer produces an acceptable data stream, why would not a junky CD or DVD player acting as a transport do the exact same thing and have the same result when played into a good DAC?

This one is for John Marks:

Heh.

My favorite is Radiohead's "Creep." Life-changing song.

Will this make a nice combo? Most of my music is going to be played from my computer (thankfully over half of it is lossless).

Anyone here have any experience with the e.One S300iu?