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| Mark Levinson's Guide to Better Sex Cornfed, your close, the entire title is, "The longer they come the bigger the fall."The movie is departing somewhat from the book, with first choice among the working titles being."From hardware to software, the hole Levinson tail" | |
| Therapy: Mechanical & Audio For the solder station, I use a Hakko 926. This unit is adjustable from about 325 to 900 degrees, and is equally comfortable in either hand.The wand is lightweight, consumer replaceable tips (round and wedge), and comes up to full heat in only a f... | |
| What is stopping the ultimate? Software with as much attention to recording quality and perhaps MORE important, a format that delivers that quality with as little compromise in efforts as we all put into our systems.A really perfect piece of software would amaze you as to how m... | |
| Best Web site for Audio. The most important site for me is All Music Guide. This is a repository of information on all recorded music by every artist in every style of music. Divided into albums and songs by the artist and year, and features many images of LP and CD cover... | |
| Record Cleaning - Cartridge Damage Record Research LP#9 is nothing short of a miracle for cleaning a stylus. It is made from a base of ISO-propyl alcohol, but should not be cause for alarm. This type of solvent is required to remove the baked on crud that attaches itself to the dia... | |
| Odd shaped speakers Clueless, if you are indeed shaped like a ham, you should seek egg shaped speakers. Everyone knows ham and eggs belong together.Or if you are from Indiana, Hammond eggs. | |
| Thanks to all Texas Phile's who partied Brian, sorry I did not attend. I was offered a job doing photography of our State Representative training at a sporting shotgun class in Sherman, TX.Since I could not be in both places at once, and my 15 year old son got to train beside him (witho... | |
| "Best of 2001" lists: Jazz I was not aware of the list Sd, thanks for posting it! The problem will be deciding which artists appeal most to my taste and how many I can afford.Oddly enough, the last title, Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Nocturne. Looks the most appealing ... | |
| Funny stuff from Paul Desmond Of all the quotes attributed to him in the article, I thought this was the funniest.On Ornette Coleman's playing, "It's like living in a house where everything's painted red." Thanks for providing the link, I am a big fan of Desmond, particularly ... | |
| The ultimate system? Cost no object Bose 901's, powered by the original Phase Linear 700. For source, a pure "DC power source" AM radio from a vintage AMC Gremlin. Signal from this to be run directly into the Phase Linear to maintain all the quality that you would expect from this r... | |
| Got a melody running around in your head? "Lola is her name," sung in the background, accompanied by images of a cute teen age girl gyrating to keep her hula hoop aloft. This began as a harmless television commercial for Levi Strauss, but now her image and tune are stuck in my head, and h... | |
| PS Audio Power Port vs. Hubbell/Leviton Rsuminsby, most likely the meeting Sean missed in Chicago was hosted for Controlled Thermal Processing of Downers Grove IL. I had this same company do a Benz phono cartridge three few years ago, with great results.You might check with Sean (click ... | |
| Best source of lead shot? Why would you want to shave an iron? | |
| PS Audio Power Port vs. Hubbell/Leviton Routlaw, If you worked for Hubbell, you should be able to access the same data on their web site as the rest of us. Specifications on Commercial grade, 20 amp outlets, versus Hospital grade, 20 amp outlets are listed as follows:Insulator for Comme... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Not even for the 2002 Porsche Turbo Cabriolet of speakers? I don't know what that would be, but an interesting question, no? |