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| Satellite vs. Cable It is impossible to generalize the performance aspects of SAT v. CATV. Your SAT performance will heavily depend on how clear of a line of site you have to the horizon where the satellites are. Your cable performance will depend on which company is... | |
| Advice needed: audio package I'm not too familiar with meridian gear, but a quick search on eBay shows a 105 and pre-amp that recently sold for about US$630. I'm thinking this gear is like 25 years old... I'd guess that the Rega would fetch US$300-400, depending upon the tone... | |
| Advice needed: audio package Might be helpful if you got model nos. for the meridian gear. You could search in the classified for similar gear and get a benchmark on what people are asking. If you want a better response to your question, you might also indicate what kind of c... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? *sigh*You bought a drive for reliability that doesn't have a fan? How hot is the case in terms of degrees over room temp? I really hope you consider backing up your data in another form...In this vein, I'd also note that I can't hear my drive at a... | |
| Amp or amps to power a pr of Kappa 9's & Kappa 8's I like the sound of my Kappa 9s with the ARC D400 Mk. II. Be warned, however, because that amp clocks in at about 75 lbs. It is a monster, just what the Kappa's need. | |
| How do you tell if your local authorized dealer .. Well, if its ARC, you can look at the box. There is a big checkbox that says "Factory Refurb" or something like that. Other manufacturers might do the same thing... | |
| Any diigital players out there with phase control? I know the Theta DACs I've had in the past have had a phase invert button on them... Not a one box solution, but at least some manufacturers think that way... | |
| What amps go with Martin Logan CLS II's? I believe Gayle Sanders, the head of ML, uses Krell gear and demos with Krell gear--at least he used too. I ran ML Prodigy and Aeon speakers at different times with various surrounds/centers, and always liked the sound of the stats with ARC tube g... | |
| ITUNES v7 any good? @Artmaltman: I'm not sure I'd characterize iT7 as slow and buggy. I think--quite rightly--that Apple got a lot of web-static about the PC version of iT7 as being released before it got debugged. I gather 7.1 and 7.2 are substantially better. After... | |
| ITUNES v7 any good? I had some issues running iTv7 on an XP machine--most notably getting it to work with my Emu 0404 soundcard. Finally got a fix that worked, but it required some messing around in non-intuitive ways. That said, it does support multiple libraries, w... | |
| buffalo terastation - doesn't allow special charac Interesting. Those characters have special meanings for windows/linux, so I don't think its a terastation-specific issue. If its too many files, can you run the script on a subset of files? All songs beginning with "A," for example? Can you tweak ... | |
| Proac Response 2.5 - How long will they last? My 15 year old (?) Proac RS2s still sound great. I think the usual "failure point" for speakers due to age is the surrounds around the cone. You might want to look at them to see if there is any cracking... | |
| another polarity riddle Two inversions of polarity (phase) are the same as none--180 degrees out of phase twice is 360 degrees out of phase is 0 degrees out of phase. So, in some sense they do cancel each other out, but that is OK. Frankly, happens inside your equipment ... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? Yes, but... RAID 0 doubles the number of drives as well, and it doesn't give you any redundancy protection. Frankly, I've backed up my RAID 5 as well anyway--no way I want to rip that many CDs again and do all the indexing and get all the artwork.... | |
| External hard drive for expanding iTunes library? Michael, I'm still confused about what you are calling a file server. As far as I'm concerned, a box on the network that serves up files is a file server, and a NAS qualifies. No, its not as fast as my Dell PowerVault either, but it didn't cost $3... |