elgordo
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| Scientist finds fungus that eats cd's There was a similar thing called "laser rot" affecting laser discs years ago. It was found to be caused by the plastic not totally enclosing the aluminum disc allowing it to oxidize. | |
| Members: start a music review section? Am I missing something? I don't understand why we need A-gons permission nor why they would mind. We agree on the forum titles such as "Classical Review" or "Jazz Review" and start now. If Arnie likes what he sees and wants to help out by refining... | |
| The end of an affair? Martice, I greatly enjoyed your post. Your writing style is at least as good as what I've seen in any current magazine. In fact, I believe that the top half dozen or so posters on this forum could put out a helluva periodical. Don | |
| questions 1. Slew Rate - How fast one can sell off a slew of unwanted equipment.2. Damping Factor - How much of a cup of coffee one can spill into a power amp before it goes up in smoke. 3. Negative Feedback - What I'm gonna get for injecting a little levit... | |
| Darn it, I scratched my Roland Now what Cover it with a VPI brick or a Shakti stone. | |
| Making Stereo amps into Mono Find a pair of G.A.S. products called "The Bridge" (I'm showing my age). This product allowed two channel amps to be bridged into mono. The bad news: Probably hard to find. The good news: If you can find 'em, they should be cheap. | |
| Multiple Copies Of LP s Same Title I've been out of vinyl collecting for about ten years but still have a MoFi "Abbey Road", some Beatles and Moody Blues british imports, Japanese Phillips classical stuff, etc. Are these worth anything? Thanks, Don | |
| Solve this fun puzzle Used Dahlquist DQ10s - about $300, Used Acoustat TNT200 power amp on Audioweb for $200, Used Chase Technologies remote control preamp for about $75 used. $575 so far. If you pick up a cheap enough CD player, you may have enough for a modest powere... | |
| Whatever Happened to Snell? Peter Snell passed away years ago after designing the great speakers of the '80s. I don't know who is designing the new stuff but obviously it's a whole new company. | |
| buyers/sellers that DEFAULT on contract There are five parts to a legally binding contract: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Legality and Capacity. If no money (the consideration) has changed hands, there is no contract. This is as I recall from Business Law in college many years ago. ... | |
| Favorite Audio Ad In an advertizing class I had in college, we learned "When the business starts to flounder, include a picture of the founder". | |
| Favorite Audio Ad In response to Evansdad's post - To paraphrase a very funny, current TV ad: "We doooo, don't we"? AlbertPorter are you listening? C'mon. Youdaman. Wow. Cheesecakeaudio.com | |
| Alarm systems. Why would they want to mount it inside the house? The burglars already know that there is a burglary in progress. Mine is in a tamper resistant box mounted over the garage door and painted along with the house. It is not a speaker but a very, very... | |
| Amp "Hum" caused by dimmer switches Dimmers only cause problems when on. Turn it to the "off" position while listening. Problem solved. | |
| Music to make you laugh by Mimes should be shot. Be sure to use a silencer. Or is a mime a terrible thing to waste? |