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| Do you believe in Magic? 03-17-12: GeoffkaitI am fairly certain we all have differing bounds of plausibility, and differing views on what constitutes a "satisfactory" explanation. If we default to the most skeptical opinions, those with the narrowest definition of the "fi... | |
| Windows Media Player Good progress!If the programs you disabled restart automatically when the computer is booted, you can prevent that by one of several means, depending on the particular app. First, see if the app itself offers a means of enabling or disabling autom... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? 03-15-12: Cbw723Bryon, I agree with one of your earlier comments: they should just say we dont know why it works, but it does. And then offer a money back guarantee. That is my feeling also. To me it is a turnoff when an explanation is presente... | |
| cable burning Good question, Jim. MrSchret, were there any markings on the resistor, from which it might be possible to determine its value? Also, what was its approximate physical size (length and diameter, if it is cylindrical)?Regards,-- Al | |
| cable burning One possibility is that the new covering that was applied doesn't allow heat to be conducted away from the resistor as efficiently as the original enclosure, and the heat is essentially trapped. Another possibility is that the new covering isn't a... | |
| Windows Media Player A few further thoughts:1)The Gateway site indicates that a BIOS update was released on 11/21/11, which was about two months before you purchased the computer. So conceivably that update is not present on your machine. Unfortunately the site doesn'... | |
| Windows Media Player Well, it sounds like you've been doing a lot of the right things. And the machine looks like it should be a reasonably decent performer, certainly powerful enough to cleanly handle .wav and mp3 files.I use NOD32 myself, although just the anti-viru... | |
| Windows Media Player 03-15-12: Xxqq250I have a question that you might know the answer to. Have you ever tried any type of line conditioner with a computer and external drives? Given that computers are not really made for high end audio, I can't help but think that it... | |
| Is it safe One further thought, adding to my previous post: Noise that may enter the amp via the RCA cable while the XLR input is being listened to will not be rejected by the amp's balanced input circuit, since it will be present on only one of the two sign... | |
| Is it safe I suspect that what Bombaywalla said will be correct in most and perhaps nearly all cases. But I would not feel 100.0% certain in any given case without analyzing a schematic for both sources, which is unlikely to be available, and/or obtaining cl... | |
| Windows Media Player As you probably realize, there are a great many possible causes, so it's hard to give solid direction. But here are some things to try. I assume that you are using Windows 7:1)Temporarily disable your realtime anti-virus protection.2)If the comput... | |
| Whats more important, source cables or amp cables? IMO there is unfortunately no way to predict the answer to your question, in part because there are many component-dependent variables that will influence the behavior of the cables in each location. A couple of examples, among many, being the out... | |
| RCA / BALANCED OUTPUT Isn't that RCA outputs put out 2.2 volts and balanced put out 4 volts?The 4 volts in that situation refers to the DIFFERENCE in voltage between the two signals of the balanced signal pair (under maximum signal conditions), that difference being wh... | |
| RCA / BALANCED OUTPUT Make sure that the adapter or adapter cable leaves XLR pin 3 (the inverted signal in the balanced signal pair) unconnected. Many adapters short pin 3 to pin 1 (ground), even though that should not be done when adapting an XLR output to an RCA inpu... | |
| What's the best AES Digital Balanced cable you eve See my two posts in this thread, the bottom line being that I would be cautious in extrapolating from the experiences of others, unless the components being connected were the same as yours. The effects of a digital cable are highly dependent on t... |