I am thinking about purchasing a Weiss Minerva as a DAC connected to the Firewire output of a MAC mini, then using balanced outputs from Minerva to audiophile music system.
Does anyone have experience with this set-up? Comments? Any special considerations?
Is there anything else I should consider before moving forward?
Thanks
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The Columbia Label Group is celebrating holding the No.1 positions in both the Single and Album Charts in the UK, with The Ting Tings at No.1 on Singles and Neil Diamond at No.1 on the Albums.
That’s Not My Name is the first chart eligible single from the Ting Tings. Their new album, We Started Nothing, is also released today. The band are currently on a sold out tour of the UK and played a homecoming gig last night in Manchester to celebrate their No.1 success. They will play a sold out show at London’s Astoria this week. Another track from the album, Shut Up And Let Me Go has also been selected for the new iTunes TV Commercial which starts in the UK this week.
After over 125 million career album sales, Neil Diamond achieves his first ever UK No.1 studio album with Home Before Dark, which was produced by Rick Rubin. Neil has been in the UK for extensive promotion which has included a special concert for Radio 2, a Jonathan Ross appearance for next week, and a forthcoming ‘Audience With Neil Diamond’ on ITV1. Already confirmed as the closing headliner as this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Neil will kick off a UK tour on the 5th June at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Columbia Managing Director Mike Smith says: “It has been incredible to tell one of the greatest living American singer songwriters on the Columbia Roster that he has his first UK No.1 album, and then to hear him in turn congratulate one of our newest signings on their chart topping single. This week is a culmination of everything we are trying to do at Columbia, reinventing legends and creating new ones.”
I just ordered the Devilsound USB DAC. I plan on getting a Mac eventually but would like to experiment with my ThinkPad Z61t laptop until then. It has XP Pro on it. Can I use this laptops USB as an output to the USB DAC? Yes, this is all new to me. I am fairly computer literate though. Do I have to do anything to get the digital signal to the USB ports? From what I have read on this site, MediaMonkey is the preferred app for XP but that was on a “reference system” with a high quality sound card. Since I’ll be using the onboard sound chip is MediaMonkey still the way to go? What else do I need to know to accomplish this? I am hoping to take a few CD’s and put them on the laptop hd and compare the sound quality from the laptop thru the USB DAC to that of the CD in a Marantz 8001 player. Thanks for any and all suggestions!
John