"Over the years, the Ant-Zen name has become synonymous with the rhythmic noise and power noise movement within the industrial music scene. The name is derived from the phrase "Anti-Zensur" (anti censorship) which serves as the modus operandi of activities as new and uncensored expressions. A fascination with insects, particularly ants, is shared among labelmates, who make references in artwork or samples in the music."
I'll take Neil Diamond over that any day of the week.
Pete wrote:Are there any decent hard disk based music media boxes about these days ?
I'm just using my laptops optical out at the moment.
My media centre has about a 3 gap between tracks so no good for certain music types.
You wan't something with gapless playback then. I'm sure you could DL a gapless media player for the laptop.
However, if you want a hifi box, then it depends on your budget. I'm looking at the Pioneer N-50 & Marantz NA7004.
I think the Atv2 might be a choice (jailbroken & using XBMC or the like) you can then mirror what the device would show on TV with an app. It needs to eaither stream wirless or via a NAS though, no direct storage.
Gapless is the key. If the media is stored on the HD media hub in a normal file structure, then a dedicated box (like the N50 or 7004) will play it back without issue.
They are approx £300. I fancy one that has a decent andriod or apple app to control it. I don't know how good they are, I've not done any research, just looked at what's out there. I imagine anything that sends a 96/24 signal to your DAC will be absolutley fine. I don't know how the info could be degraded in any way other than at decode stage?
Who knows, there's so much BS about it's hard to figure out what's worth reading. The most sensible thing I've read so far:
Speaker cable - pointless spending lots of money.The impedance of mains cable is so low that it should not have a detrimental impact on the signal.
Speakers - This is where you will see gains vs money spent.
From what I've been told / read, you need spend silly money to hear a difference between a decent amp / dac, however with speakers you will hear a difference for every £1 spent up to £X, which I think is £4-5k retail.
markedkiller78 wrote:Quad 909 won on ebay, just need to pay for the CDP2 & find some speakers
Now you know the rest of your system you should start a thread on HFWW asking which brands of speakers will compliment your kit and how much you should budget so you know what to demo. If the shop has demo units the same as yours, even better.
I'm quite fortunate with Cyrus kit that they're relatively fussy so there is a shortlist of speaker makes that suit their crispy sound. I'll have to go to Hull to demo the two that interest me though
I went with a NAS because my streamer doesn't support metadata for HDDs etc but I'm glad I did. The iMac, streamer and NAS are connected to a GB switch and I can just drop files across. Get some homeplugs.
Nothing like the cash your spending here but I bought a Panasonic G10 50 TV about 3 years ago and found the std TV speakers appauling to use and a crime if watching Blu Ray's or my consoles.
I invested in some Cambridge Audio stuff which I find (for me) to be really good, cheap and has a qualitly look for the price.
I have the Yamaha 567 AV reciver, S70 CA floor standing speakers, CA S50 middle and 2x CA minx for the rears, no sub and its great and all in cost me about £600 and to me at least, sound amazing. Would have a sub buut its loud enough for my usage as I dont have it too loud due to neighbours
All pales in to comparison to what you lot are on about though!
