Duffinator
Spin The Black Circle
Last night I connected a 17" LCD tv to the ATV now located in my den. Everything is working fine and the DAC in my Denon DAP-2500A is very close in sound to my Denon DVD-2900. My initial impression was the bass on the 2900 was a touch tighter than the preamp but it's very close if there really is a difference. I think I'm going to hold off on purchasing the DACMagic for at least a couple of weeks. I want to give the preamp a good listen before I make any more changes and give me more time to research optional DAC's. The Benchmark DAC1 and Apogee Mini look tempting but cost almost twice as much used as the DACMagic does new. And if you add in USB...
I'm still undecided regarding using the ATV with a monitor or Airport Express with the Touch. I'm leaning towards the ATV as I really like using the GUI and it adds a certain coolness factor for just an audio system. :yes: I can also watch music videos with it as well although the audio on the videos from iTunes is low bitrate. For some reason the Touch does not want to stay connected to the ATV but has no problem staying connected to iTunes on my PC. This is not an issue if I'm using an Airport Express.
Since nobody has an answer for the question below I'll probably start a new thread.
What's the best way to rip my CDs into ALAC using EAC? I'm missing the middle software piece below.
CD--->EAC--->???--->ALAC
I'm still undecided regarding using the ATV with a monitor or Airport Express with the Touch. I'm leaning towards the ATV as I really like using the GUI and it adds a certain coolness factor for just an audio system. :yes: I can also watch music videos with it as well although the audio on the videos from iTunes is low bitrate. For some reason the Touch does not want to stay connected to the ATV but has no problem staying connected to iTunes on my PC. This is not an issue if I'm using an Airport Express.
Since nobody has an answer for the question below I'll probably start a new thread.
What's the best way to rip my CDs into ALAC using EAC? I'm missing the middle software piece below.
CD--->EAC--->???--->ALAC