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| High-Def TVs? Kirkus -- Thanks for your thoughtful insights. Actually, they reinforce the decision I made about 3 years ago to buy the last and perhaps best crt-based hdtv of its screen size ever made, just before it became unavailable. A Sony 30 inch 16:9 hdtv... | |
| why is it that on some records, sound terrible?? Here is the checklist that I run through in my mind whenever I install a cartridge, of things that need to be adjusted or at least considered:Overhang.Offset angle.Azimuth.VTA.Tracking force.Anti-skating force.Load resistance (i.e., preamp input i... | |
| High-Def TVs? Seems to me that for someone who wants to watch both hdtv and sdtv extensively, and have reasonably good picture quality in both modes, the key is to simply select a screen size that will be the right compromise for both modes. Select it to be som... | |
| why is it that on some records, sound terrible?? Sounds (no pun intended) like your cartridge isn't set up properly. Different music very conceivably would be affected to differing degrees, which would explain why some records seem not to have the problem.Regards,-- Al | |
| High-Def TVs? More precisely, the TV needs to have an ATSC tuner, rather than an older NTSC tuner, to receive digital over-the-air broadcasts without a converter box. There is not necessarily a correlation between that and the presence of a coaxial input connec... | |
| High-Def TVs? One more point. The conversion to over-the-air digital broadcasting does not mean that everything will be hd. Digital broadcasts can be sd or hd. SD digital broadcasts will generally look sharper, though, then sd analog broadcasts. The downside of... | |
| High-Def TVs? Three points:-- A standard definition program blown up to the size of a 50 inch screen WILL look horrible, unless viewed from a considerable distance. One of the most fundamental reasons for hd is to support large screen sizes.-- Different hd sets... | |
| High speed Internet connection question I thought what you had been asking was what email program would be best to use. That is separate and distinct from the question of who provides the email account. Obviously the email account, its associated address, and the associated mail server ... | |
| Needing an explanation of amplifier feedback I wouldn't take that statement too seriously. Amplifiers that use feedback excessively tend to be cheap lo-fi products and some mid-fi products. A quality amplifier, especially one whose sound quality has generally received favorable commentary, w... | |
| High speed Internet connection question I have no knowledge of Charter's software, but I've been very pleased with Outlook Express over the years, and my instinct is to avoid software provided by ISP's.Regards,-- Al | |
| converting stereo power amps to mono Hi Magfan -- Yes, I was referring to feeding a single channel signal identically into both channels of the amp, because that appears to be what the op was asking. I think he was envisioning using two stereo amps, one per channel in bridged mono mo... | |
| Long IC Cable Run There are two main considerations:1)The cable should be well shielded, to minimize noise pickup. It's hard to be more specific than that, because success or failure would depend on how large and how close the nearby sources of electrical noise are... | |
| converting stereo power amps to mono As a follow-up to my previous post, I took a look at some front and rear photos of the Sonance 260x3, and I see no bridge-mode switch, or any other indication that it is bridgeable.Regards,-- Al | |
| converting stereo power amps to mono I'll answer your question in the next paragraph. But first let me be sure that you realize that if the amp isn't designed for bridging, putting the same information into both channels of one amp, and then connecting a speaker between its two "hot"... | |
| Effect of two power prongs, not three A follow-up to my previous post. I took a look at what was probably the same Wikipedia writeup that you referred to. If your amp inlet looks like this, then you should be ok:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Socket_IEC320_Kaltger%C3%A4teeinbauste... |