Have you tried the Spotify music service? (I have no connection with Spotify, other than enjoying the ease of use and incredible selection of music.) http://www.spotify.com/uk/ Spotify is available in seven countries, there's a free option, but you can also buy a premium service. With the latter, you get a 320kbps stream of music - and I've

Puncher is right. Most of the available formats, up to and including Redbook (what you find on a CD), is 16-bit/44.1kHz compatible, even if at lower resolutions. The word length you can set at 24 for all playback, if you're playing back 16-bit, it will just add 0s to the string, without changing the signal in any way. What matters is the sample

Don't worry too much about the quality of the volume control in the Mac. In later versions of QuickTime that's been sorted. Here's a link to the Benchmark Wiki for connecting Macs to Dacs. Use the instructions for setting up the Mac to avoid processing of the sound. A neat tip if you want fine-grained volume control straight from the computer

The analog OUTS are at 2.6V RMS, and that's safe for a pair of BL3s. Start with the volume low, as Puncher says. That DAC has a tube inside it, I believe. It's supposed to be very long life, but if you don't hear anything, then it could be that the tube needs to be replaced. You'll find a manual at the AN site.

[quote user="j0hnbarker"] Let's be honest chaps: they do look $h1t compared to BL3s. A bit like an over-sized motion sensor for a car alarm, or perhaps the dissected eyes from a huge robotic fly. [/quote] I took issue with the very derogatory and irrelevant nature of the posts. A one word "terrible" from a B&O dealer; and

This serious music enthusiast moves the speakers out on to the floor when listening to them, and would therefore have little benefit from "hiding his cable runs." The second set-up was quickly nixed, he found the sound was much better with the speakers out on the floor, and bought the floor stands. When used for regular listening, the speakers

I can attest to KingofSnake's impressions. BL3s produce excellent sound, and have surprised many professional audio people and audio reviewers with their transparent fidelity - you can't push them to very loud output, as you get perceivable distortion then, but for most of the listening you'll do they're perfect. I know one person who

From what I could gather from my encounters with Lewis, nuts is wide off the mark as a description. And his studio is a well organized place. Getting back to the point of the thread, rather than the knee-jerk derogatory comments proffered: speaker design has suffered from the "monkey coffin" concept for years and years. B&O were among

This is, of course, a completely inane discussion. However, as we're for some reason talking about MOMA - maybe TripEnglish will inform the multitudes as to why David Lewis says as follows on the front page of his website: Three of his designs are on display in MoMA in New York (the museum of Modern Art). But he says he doesn't know which ones

As usual, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Various good acoustic principles at work - some of which have also been applied to the BL5. I'm not entirely on board with Barker's logic here, though, maybe I'm missing the point. Here's to unusual and effective speaker designs!