billbartuska
Responses from billbartuska
| Tune of the Day Status Quo, "Forty-Five Hundred Times" | |
| Tuner or Receiver No matter how good the tuner is you still need a good antenna.And the RX 596 is from 1993, long past the "silver era"I have a Yamaha CR-1020 (1977 - 1980) that has an excellent tuner. You can even tune out multipath distortion (from signals bo... | |
| SPDIF to USB Converter? "I doubt these are what you want, but I don't think a simple converter like you want exists." - nor should it ever exist. SP/DIF is unidirectional while USB is bidirectional. It's like getting a water line to gas line converter for you house. Th... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? danoroo4. "Come On Everybody" (Original by Eddie Cochran covered by Led Zeppelin)Also covered by Humble Pie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5L-YcHcYe4 | |
| Quality of outlet not directly powering equipment important? Disconnect the last one and see if you can hear a difference? | |
| Which sounds best, 120 volts, or 240 volts? Would not an amplifier sold in both the US and UK have exactly the same circuit boards inside and differ only in transformer / rectifier? And does this not make the question moot? | |
| Fidelizer and JPlay JPlay is the greatest.Running it under Server 2012 R2 is better.Applying AUDIOPHILE OPTIMIZER to Server 2012 R2 is the best, unless you can do the stripping yourself. | |
| Music Server format? When you get the ripping, formats and playback software sorted there's also the computer's operating system to consider. Windows, for one, does hundreds of things in the background that have nothing to do with music playing. "Stripping out" a Wind... | |
| True audio stories! Do you have any? Does anyone from Chicago remember a guy named Basil, or know anything about him? Back in the ’70s he used to sell high end audio out of a bunch of condos. You’d tell him what you wanted to audition and he would set up an appointment at the appropr... | |
| How do you deal with absolute polarity? Check absolute phase by disconnecting a speaker and applying current from the positive pole of a 1.5V D-cell battery to the positive speaker terminal. This should cause the speaker cone to extent outward.Assuming that the channels in an amp that p... | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? I've been playing around with "audio" computers for a few years.hew nailed it...... by using Windows Server 2012 os in core mode (i.e. no GUI), Jplay for streaming and rendering, Audiophile Optimizer and Fidelizer, Process Lasso, etc. | |
| New Room (from House to Apt) advice wanted on minimizing complaints I've had good luck with the "neighbor visit" technique when I was in an apartment. I added that I would only be playing loud music at a specific time ie. Friday night from 7-9 pm, Saturday afternoon from 1-3 pm? | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "Reaching fir the sky, churning up the ground."Bad Company - Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy | |
| What's going on with the audio market? 70, 20, 100+ | |
| Has there been any inexpensive item that enhanced your system's sound? Check the mounting bolts/screws on you woofers and sub-woofers. Re-tighten if necessary. |