Posts by riffer

Belden 5T00UP and 1312A are pretty good, and I use them in my system.

It should be turned up all the way and the volume controlled by the receiver. This is to reduce noise at the amplification stage.

Quote:Originally Posted by davee70 I would check out Blue Jeans cable. They will make you custom balanced cables using Belden 1800F cable and Neutrik XLR connectors with gold contacts. See...

Quote:Originally Posted by KidHorn Their primary purpose is put the speakers at ear level. +1

If you're worried about power consumption of the Music Server, don't. If you are just using it for music you can get away with a very minimalist machine. I use mine for a lot more than music - downloading, recording HDTV, serving...

Magnum Dynalab

Quote:Originally Posted by oregonalex Thank you but that's just the problem. It's not new. I've had this player since December, with a brief exception of two weeks at Oppo to replace the loader. It has never smelled this strongly...

Quote:Originally Posted by Neuromancer Audio Processing->Speaker Configuration settings only affect the analog outputs. There is no change the HDMI audio. I fiddled around with that for an hour on my '95 and wondered why nothing...

Definitely go Micro-ATX. You may not need the extra SATA connectors and slots now, but you may in the future. For example, I have a DG45FC. Great board for my original needs - a music server, but now that I am using it for video as...

Quote: Originally Posted by Heuer I am using WMC/MB under Win 7 64 Pro (I like to maintain it via remote desktop so the Home edition is useless unless you hack it).... Ya. Me too. What a waste of money. The thing that bugs me is...