Thanks for the input skunk, ezkcdude & Mike. While I would love a retreat with a separate its not practical in my current house. The closest thing to it right now is listening directly at the pc with Klipsch ProMedia 5.1s (really only needed the 2.1s though).
As for the source files, I have ripped my collection using EAC and encoded with LAME using the --alt-preset standard command line option. I didn't do a true ABX comparison with FLAC but I listened to some samples and read some research and decided MP3s were good enough for me. Hopefully I don't upgrade my system so much that I can now tell the difference! I purchased my system 4 years ago and that's the last time I did any research on anything. Overall HT and music sounds decent but nothing special. Not sure what my expectations should be, but I think it should sound better than it does. Maybe it needs to be tuned in some way or I need to experiment with the placement a bit but it sounds like an average system (whatever that means) to me and on paper it seems like it should sound above average and I would like to do something to improve it if possible. Skunk - even though a separate setup isn't practical right now what would you recommend for a decent 2-channel setup based on my listening preferences? Based on the lack of suggestions (so far) to add other hardware components it seems like another amp/pre-amp or dac would not make any significant difference? Is there a "super receiver" which has great internals which (practically) eliminates the need for separate components? -- zooropa320 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zooropa320's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3420 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20198 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
