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| Can asking price be changed after offer is made? Moto_man: An offer to sell at a certain price and an unqualified acceptance is a contract. But I don't think any court in the US would interpret that to mean that a seller who places an ad is obligated to sell just because someone agrees to the li... | |
| Is 5.1 Really This Bad? Thanks for the comments so far. I don't think poor equipment explains what I heard. Poor speaker placement might have been a factor, however. Granted, I might have just stumbled on a bad example. | |
| What is Redbook? Mike: 20-bit is how Microsoft (like Pacific Microsonics, which developed it) hypes it, and credulous audio writers who know nothing about a product except what a manufacturer tells them parrot the line.HDCD is just a 16-bit system which uses the 1... | |
| XRCD vs. SACD You're asking people to compare apples and oranges. XRCD is a very careful mastering process. SACD is a digital format. If an XRCD mastering job were put on a SACD, it would probably be indistinguishable from a 16-bit disk. | |
| Can asking price be changed after offer is made? 'Fraid so, pardner. | |
| What is Redbook? This is the second thread recently where I've seen someone say HDCD has 20-bit resolution. This is nonsense. HDCD may be able to cram an extra fraction of a bit's worth of information onto a disk, but that's about the limit (and even that may be s... | |
| Classical music for Rockers It looks like most of the recommendations here are from the Romantic era (especially if you count Ludwig van on the leading edge). To me, good rock is minimalist rock, and I tend toward Baroque and Classical (with Beethoven on the trailing edge). ... | |
| Can asking price be changed after offer is made? I'm not a lawyer either, but I do know that a contract requires the agreement of both parties, and placing an ad does not constitute agreeing to anything. And while it may be annoying to a buyer to make a full-price offer and then see the price hi... | |
| Weird Question on Murray Pariah SACD Confusion Mastering an SACD is not cheap, and this disk is not going platinum. It is really hard to imagine anyone mastering the same recording twice for different markets. Different versions of cover art, aimed at different markets, is more plausible. It's... | |
| 1st song you remember??? My earliest clear musical memory is riding in a school bus in first grade, and all the older kids were singing "All My Loving." That would be Spring of '64, of course. | |
| Burn in time...Reality or something else??? Well, our ears adapting is reality, too. It's also a well-understood phenomenon, and one not confined to hearing, as you note. On the other hand, equipment "burn-in," if it happens, is not understood at all--no one's ever offered even a plausible ... | |
| B-wire - four cables or jumpers? And, if you'd prefer an accurate description of the effects of biwiring, see:www.pcavtech.com/techtalk/biwire/index.htm | |
| Speaker Cable directionality: reversable?? Oleander: Just turn your wires around and don't worry about the arrows. It won't make a whit of difference. (It can't: The signal flows in both directions.) | |
| Speaker Cable directionality: reversable?? Keep in mind that some manufacturers put arrows on their cables to cash in on the impression that "directional" cables are better. I'm with Taylor on whether shielding matters for speaker cables, however. | |
| Why Aren't All Cables Pre-Burned In? Gawd, are you lazy! |