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| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? 03-16-11: UnsoundTvad, I for one would hate to lose you, and your valued balanced contributions to this forum. This particular thread doesn't seem that contentious to me. I do hope you'll reconsider.I strongly second these thoughts. Grant, as I in... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Although I always have the greatest respect for opinions expressed by Ralph (Atmasphere) and Grant (Tvad), and I almost always find myself in agreement with both of them, in this case I think that their posts are commingling two separate issues.AN... | |
| Volume control vs. attenuation control Paperw8, I think you may have misread Herman's comment. Note that he did not say that the gain of a preamplifier is fixed. He said that "the gain of almost all active STAGES is fixed." That is a correct statement, as are the rest of his comments, ... | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 CW, thanks for the nice words, and for finding and providing the link.According to this hardware maintenance manual, bios setup on the X201 is entered by pressing the F1 key when the ThinkPad logo appears following turn-on.Many of the suggestions ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Danses Anciennes de Hongrie"-- Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi France HM1003)Piano Music of Chopin, Grieg, Debussy, Schumann, Beethoven-- Kabi Laretei, Piano (Proprius 7793) | |
| If you have a line conditioner, does noise matter? 03-10-11: MagfanIt would be wacky expensive, but couldn't a motor driven Variac be used to automatically control output voltage to 120, or whatever desired?Not expensive at all. I have this one (not in my audio system), which I once had occasion t... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini 03-10-11: PerrewIts the first post by PeterST Im referring too, he is Not advocating what you say thats what Miska says, Peter says to deal with all small spikes.Yes, that is the post I was referring to also, the one entitled "SSD" and signed "Pet... | |
| Can anyone help identify these speakers? See this thread and this one. "London Audio System," whose products the threads indicate may sometimes have been sold from white vans. Regards,-- Al | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini 03-10-11: PerrewHere is an interesting take by someone saying SSDs cant improve sound.... After reading it (the article on the lower half of the page) several times, I must say that I have very little idea of what he is saying :-)I think that one ... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini 03-09-11: JyleeSSD may sound better than magnetic HD, but it's largely irrelevant today because there isn't any SSD large enough to store the music collection. I have 600GB+ of music from CD, DVD Audio, and HDTracks. It's not practical to build a ... | |
| Squeezebox WiFi noise... Hi Dogmcd,The procedure they describe involves doing some things that are a bit out of the ordinary. You have to log on to the Squeezebox via what is known as SSH, as opposed to http, ftp, etc.The following paragraph from this page indicates how t... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini 03-08-11: AplhifiHDD jitter? No such thing, IMO! And letÂ’s not forget that the SSD also has a SDRAM buffer, just like HDD.It does not matter where your audio file is stored; it is always double buffered (at minimum); first in the storage device ow... | |
| Squeezebox WiFi noise... This thread pertains to the Touch, but I suppose might also be applicable to the Duet. See post 3 in the thread, and post 47 and the posts that follow it.Regards,-- Al | |
| Power line question Jim & Elizabeth -- I think you are miscommunicating :-)A two-pole 60 amp main breaker is referred to as "60 amp service," but means that 120 amps would be available if all of it were used at 120V, or that 60 amps would be available if all of i... | |
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini 03-08-11: PerrewWhen you optimize the computer for music playback the access speed of the drive might be a non issue so controlled test with SSD vs. HDD should be madeAgreed.One easy way would be to take once Mac mini with regular internal HDD and... |