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| How come DAC and Cable dont mix? Too low a kHz rating? You mean sample rate? Redbook CD, which most DACs will conform to will do 16 bits at 44.1 kHz. While some DACs are built for higher sample rates and word sizes, the incompatibility with video-based signals is going to be due ... | |
| How come DAC and Cable dont mix? Might ask the local company... CATV mega-companies were generally formed by acquisitions, so there isn't really any standardization, even in systems owned by the same parent (my provider--Comcast--uses Sci. Atlanta STBs, but their system in DC, on... | |
| What format are most people using, and why? ALAC. Same benefits as FLAC, but I can use iTunes... | |
| Guitar player? , What model do you own or play? I just started... Still looking for a good teacher in the DC area. But, I just picked up a new re-issue Gibson ES-335 (Royal Street Blue) and a little 5W Gibson tube amp... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need "The RIAA is not a consumer advocate group."Amen to that. Frankly, kind of makes me queasy to even state their arguments, even if I do so with attribution. Just read another thread where they are suing a family for illegally downloading material, ... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need One of the core problems here is that the term "fair use" is not black and white:(i) The RIAA interprets fair use *not* to include any of the activities you have discussed, Onhwy61.(ii) On the other hand, legal scholars seem to interpret most, or ... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Zaikesman-For a more complete discussion of the state of the law, look at the link I previously referenced. Your copy is "legal" because the making of that copy is generally regarded as fair use. The first sale provisions protect your right to sel... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Well, enuf of non-lawyers debating the issue. Here's a link to a bunch of lawyers debating the issue. They end up in the same quandry:http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-sale-hard-copies-and-digital.htmlWithout getting hypertechnical, S... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need "My contention is that the person buying the used CD would not have bought the new CD in the first place."Why? An economist would disagree. At a minimum, you have deprived the seller of the right to sell at that price."I paid for it and the artist... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Zaikesman, have you never bought a CD--whether because you liked the album art, liked a different CD by the same artist, got a recommendation--and then discovered you thought the album was crap? I've got no issue with returning a CD like that or r... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Zaikesman-The number of CDs produced is a red herring--its the number that are sold that counts to the artist. And, I think "like" is part of the moral equation, at least to the extent I was using "like" as shorthand for "being part of the univers... | |
| CD Lifetime? I had thought I'd heard some stories of delamination and oxidization of the metallic layer--even for commercial CDs. Mine seem to have held up well, but the thought of a 6y lifetime on CDRs may be a surprise to those thinking they have a backup of... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need It is a pretty odd situation for me to be advocating for the RIAA, since I think their views on the whole copyright thing are pretty deplorable. The RIAA (not me) takes the position that ripping a CD is illegal period--they seem to have written fa... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need I'll echo Prpixel here and add in a moral view. Mine are boxed and stored--both as a secondary backup to my RAID array *and* because, in my naive view, selling them would be wrong. As much as I will rail against the RIAA for the copyright position... | |
| Focal or Blaupunkt I ended up with Focal speakers for my car in the front w/some JL Audio stealthboxes in the back... The Focals sounded much more balanced than anything else I heard at the dealers, but I don't recall if they carried Blaupunkt. I always thought Blau... |