aboldor
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| Looking for Sam Chatmon album, anyone can help? Thanks, Hervé, I know that album - and love it. But I'm after "The Mississippi Sheik". Blue Goose is long gone (too bad). | |
| computer fan noise? Do not forget that after getting rid of the power supply noise, you will probably hear the other fans in the case that were previously "covered" by the louder one : CPU fan, case fans, if you have them, maybe video card fan (this last one was the ... | |
| May use a step down transformer for HI-End ? Chances are a CD player, tuner, and the like (small units) will work - look at the rated consumption, it should be inside the transformer's rated power, preferably below. An amp, however, will not. Some components can be converted relatively easil... | |
| Nondirectional & Inaudible Bass: What Frequencies? I think that theoretical calculations may be helpful, but eventually, each particular setup will have its own characteristics, depending on room size, the components, placement, and even the furniture (and so on). In my experience, the importance ... | |
| Kharma with or without grills: Am I crazy? Some Paradigm models use the grills as an "active" component of the speaker, and they specifically recommend using the speakers with the grilles on. The idea is that sound will diffuse better, thus widening the soundstage, "hiding" the source of t... | |
| Biggest Sound in the Littliest Box System Audio's SA2k is a pretty impressive performer. It uses customized scan-speak drivers somewhat similar to those used by Wilsons, for example (same driver "family"). Well worth a try in their size/price/performance range.details at:http://www... | |
| I Hate to Admit It Try SoundForge for sound extraction/editing. Granted, it may be a little "excessive'" - the program is actually meant for much more complex tasks, but it has a built-in ripping facility, and tons of features, if you ever want to try and improve th... | |
| No more music CDs without copy protection As if we needed another incentive to move to vinyl/sacd... anyway, here's what specialists have to say:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020Just another example of greedy/clueless executives helping "sink their own ship". | |
| OT: Windows XP Update Service Pack 1 By the time I finished writing this, I realized its almost a novel please excuse my verbosity and/or the oversimplification of some things, but I was only trying to make everything as clear as possible for everybody, and most of all, to help.T... | |
| What amp is best? Since you have the B&W setup, I'd recommend you to look at a Sunfire Cinema Grand - the Nautiluses do like to be "fed" properly, and the Sunfire is up to the task, while also giving you the best of both worlds (or at least a decent compromise)... | |
| Woofer pumping - what gives? Ditto Sean. This is why some (esp. older) integrateds/pre's have a "low freq filter" or something similar (they all are hi-pass filters attenuating the signal from ~ 20 Hz and below). If you're sure your cartridge is OK, maybe your rig has this fe... | |
| help with din to rca cable for creek amp? Correction: I just checked some Neutrik catalogs and I noticed that they are NOT the same as DIN's. I assumed that Neutrik also makes standard DIN's. My previous advice does NOT apply to the Neutrik. It applies to the connectors found here: http:/... | |
| help with din to rca cable for creek amp? You can either go with Sugarbrie's offer, either pick a cable of your choosing and if it doesn't work, try to modify it. DIN cables were meant (among other things) to be used as a single link between say a tape deck and another. There are 5 pins o... | |
| TV picture issue, anyone? First, I would look into the degaussing thing, with the following added remark: if it got magnetized during shipping, perhaps you have a big magnet (subwoofer in the trunk?) or some electrical device in your car that causes trouble - try a differe... | |
| Amplifier class A/B bias question Ok, then, very, very loosely put: about what range on the dial is still in class A? up to "8 o'clock"? maybe 9? (starts around "6:30 - 7") |