Recent content by scott s

Ok everything I read says that when using a usb dac that the volume levels in the player(mediamonkey) should be at 100% so as not to deteriorate the bit stream What about the preamp level in the eq in media monkey. I assume 0db or in the middle of the graph (neutral) since the music streamer ii...

well I finaly downloaded a sampler from hdtracks and must admit that the sound to me is better than standard cd 16/44. This is thru a usb dac however, not my stock internal sound card. Wish more rock and modern proggressive jazz/rock titles were available though. Still enjoying my ripped to wav...

Well kinda like the titles says. Just spent the last 3 days struggling with media monkey but finaly got it some what decent. Finaly managed to get about 50 cd's ripped and stored so they are easy to find by artist or genere or album title etc. A simple search will pop em right up! Once I learned...

Has no one an opinion here as to the swan m200mkiii. PLEASE.

Still have not decided but am rethinking just a bit. I will say it is down to the blue sky exo 2.1 vs the swan m50w because the exo 2 preamp controler is just so convienent. Also I think the exo 2 is remarkable for a small system and at sale price probably all I need and the exo sub is 8 inch...

Supposedly refurbished with minor scratches at 249.00. But I just found the exo2 on memorial day sale for 369.00 NEW with free shipping! I think I am going to pull the trigger. Now to decide on the hrt music streamer 2 usb dac so I dont have to use my crapo internal realtek card on my laptop!

Looking for anyone in this forum who has a set of the swan m50w 2.1 speakers as I am tired of searching for reviews and would like to know how you personaly like them. Is the bass powerfull enough and detailed? Do they play loudly and accurately etc.etc. I found a demo pair of blue sky exo2...

That is definetly in the works and why I want a decent usb dac to go to emotiva pre amp and amp! How ever I spend a lot of time in my "work room" and want quality sound in there. Moving the laptop is easy! but it will be in my work room almost 90% of the time. No one commented on the blue sky...

Well, at the moment I am leaning towards the corsair sp2500 and using the hrt music streamer ii for the usb dac as it has no volume control and there is a headphone output on the sp2500 remote. With the swan m50w I would have to re think the usb dac as there is no headphone jack on the swan...

That nfb-12 looks quite nice. It also looks as if the nfb, dac outputs are strictly line level (not effected by the headphone amp volume control) which would be great to a powered 2.1 such as the swan m50w or corsair sp2500 as you avoid the double amping syndrome I believe. The udac2 volume...

Ok, I will say it I am a fairly old fart HA! Just got my first computer a little over a year ago and is a toshiba L505 sattelite laptop. Originaly bought to program all the proggramable stuff on my rc helis but! I have quite a nice audio system in my big living room however I find myself at the...